The Increase of True Religion: Addresses to the Clergy and Church Workers of the Archdeaconry of Ely

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The University Press, 1917 - 50

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Strona 11 - God seem to approximate to one of two types, which, without prejudice, and merely for convenience, I may respectively call the religious and the metaphysical. The metaphysical conception emphasises His all-inclusive unity. The religious type emphasises His ethical personality. The metaphysical type tends to regard Him as the logical glue which holds multiplicity together and makes it intelligible. The religious type willingly turns away from such speculations about the Absolute, to love and worship...
Strona 20 - Jesus, as he himself witnesseth, was a man of great diligence and wisdom among the Hebrews, who did not only gather the grave and short sentences of wise men, that had been before him, but himself also uttered some of his own, full of much understanding and wisdom.
Strona 47 - Report on the subject made by the Committee of the Lower House of the Convocation of the province of Canterbury, and the...
Strona 32 - Historical Study of Thought. THE reflective student of the history of human knowledge is apt to receive an overwhelming impression of the instability of opinion, of the mutability of beliefs, of the vicissitudes of science, in short of the impermanence of what is, or passes for,
Strona 36 - ... horror of sin which was set forth at Sinai, ought to have a place in the personal religious life of the Christian man ; but after all there is a contrast between the two dispensations1. The great feature which distinguished the gospel as first preached from contemporary religions was its attractive power. I if I be lifted up will draw all men unto me.
Strona 17 - God's righteousness for its foundation : the righteousness given when the psalmist knew the blessedness of • the man to whom the Lord
Strona 32 - truth ' should turn out ' false ' is a calamity only if we are unable to supplant it by a 'truer.

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