Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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Page 39
... moral sense of scruple and conscience ; and lastly became more and more exclusively applied to the inward feeling of reverence for the gods and to the outward manifestation of that reverence in worship and sacrifice . There are some ...
... moral sense of scruple and conscience ; and lastly became more and more exclusively applied to the inward feeling of reverence for the gods and to the outward manifestation of that reverence in worship and sacrifice . There are some ...
Page 40
... moral obligation , which they called religio , dependent on their faith in the gods only . They had a feeling of awe in their hearts at the sight of anything that seemed to them overpowering and beyond the grasp of their senses and ...
... moral obligation , which they called religio , dependent on their faith in the gods only . They had a feeling of awe in their hearts at the sight of anything that seemed to them overpowering and beyond the grasp of their senses and ...
Page 43
... Morality , ' and soon after , ' Religion has never been other than science , plus worship or emotion . ' We can hardly open a book without meeting with similar random definitions of religion . Religion is said to be knowledge , and it ...
... Morality , ' and soon after , ' Religion has never been other than science , plus worship or emotion . ' We can hardly open a book without meeting with similar random definitions of religion . Religion is said to be knowledge , and it ...
Page 46
... moral religion , while re- serving theology as a name of dogmatic religion , is objectionable , and can only create confusion . We may distinguish between dogmatic and practical religion , and we may equally distinguish between dogmatic ...
... moral religion , while re- serving theology as a name of dogmatic religion , is objectionable , and can only create confusion . We may distinguish between dogmatic and practical religion , and we may equally distinguish between dogmatic ...
Page 47
... morality can exist without dogma or dogma without morality , we do no more by our nomenclature than admit the existence of a common element in both . Schleiermacher's Definition of Religion . Some philosophers , however , and ...
... morality can exist without dogma or dogma without morality , we do no more by our nomenclature than admit the existence of a common element in both . Schleiermacher's Definition of Religion . Some philosophers , however , and ...
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Page 567 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.