Theism: Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 |
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... for or against any particular an- swer . Its only legitimate purpose is to help us A to realise aright our true relation to the question . LECT ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE QUESTION TO BE DIS- CUSSED WHENCE AND HOW WE GET IDEA OF GOD,
... for or against any particular an- swer . Its only legitimate purpose is to help us A to realise aright our true relation to the question . LECT ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE QUESTION TO BE DIS- CUSSED WHENCE AND HOW WE GET IDEA OF GOD,
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Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 Robert Flint. to realise aright our true relation to the question . We can never in any investigation see too early or too clearly the true and full significance , the gen- eral and special bearings of ...
Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 Robert Flint. to realise aright our true relation to the question . We can never in any investigation see too early or too clearly the true and full significance , the gen- eral and special bearings of ...
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... realise the pres- ence of infinite sympathy and implore the help of infinite strength . If there be a God , the vir- tue which takes no account of Him , even if it were otherwise faultless , must be most defective . The performance of ...
... realise the pres- ence of infinite sympathy and implore the help of infinite strength . If there be a God , the vir- tue which takes no account of Him , even if it were otherwise faultless , must be most defective . The performance of ...
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... realised by them . Perhaps such complaint was never less applicable . It is not long since it was the fashion among men of science to avoid all reference to religion - to treat religious theory and scientific theory as entirely separate ...
... realised by them . Perhaps such complaint was never less applicable . It is not long since it was the fashion among men of science to avoid all reference to religion - to treat religious theory and scientific theory as entirely separate ...
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... realised the dependence of man on man , and the extent to which tradition enters into all our thinking , when he pretended that a human being born on a desert island , and who had grown up without any acquaintance with other beings ...
... realised the dependence of man on man , and the extent to which tradition enters into all our thinking , when he pretended that a human being born on a desert island , and who had grown up without any acquaintance with other beings ...
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