Christ the truth, an essay towards the organization of Christian thinking, 8 lectures1900 |
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... object of pure thought . This faculty of thought will then subject it to analytic processes , drawing out its separate constituents in sharply enun- ciated propositional form ; thence proceeding to connect the enunciations in logical ...
... object of pure thought . This faculty of thought will then subject it to analytic processes , drawing out its separate constituents in sharply enun- ciated propositional form ; thence proceeding to connect the enunciations in logical ...
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... objects of its faith , there is apt to be found an undue sub- traction from their effectiveness in practical life . And , again , that a religious man's life is for the most part very imperfectly explained by the clearest statement of ...
... objects of its faith , there is apt to be found an undue sub- traction from their effectiveness in practical life . And , again , that a religious man's life is for the most part very imperfectly explained by the clearest statement of ...
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... the total harmonious development of a human life : for this is plainly a hierarchy of powers and endowments held together as a unit in a personal synthesis . With this outline of the object we propose , and 34 LECT . CHRIST , THE TRUTH.
... the total harmonious development of a human life : for this is plainly a hierarchy of powers and endowments held together as a unit in a personal synthesis . With this outline of the object we propose , and 34 LECT . CHRIST , THE TRUTH.
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William Medley. With this outline of the object we propose , and of the method that seems proper to be pursued in such an inquiry as the present , let us begin with what should naturally come first , viz .: A brief consideration of the ...
William Medley. With this outline of the object we propose , and of the method that seems proper to be pursued in such an inquiry as the present , let us begin with what should naturally come first , viz .: A brief consideration of the ...
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... objects of Thought , and the terms in which they are expressed , are absolutely un- ambiguous , and every time they appear perfectly preserve their identity , all the virtue of logical demonstration simply evaporates , however closely ...
... objects of Thought , and the terms in which they are expressed , are absolutely un- ambiguous , and every time they appear perfectly preserve their identity , all the virtue of logical demonstration simply evaporates , however closely ...
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Page 172 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Page 239 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Page 245 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Page 15 - For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear,— believe the aged friend, — Is just our chance o...
Page 241 - If I may not assume that I exist, and in a particular way, that is, with a particular mental constitution, I have nothing to speculate about, and had better let speculation alone. Such as I am, it is my all; this is my essential stand-point, and must be taken for granted; otherwise, thought is but an idle amusement, not worth the trouble.
Page 242 - I, who see, and hear and think, and feel, am the one continuous self, whose existence gives unity and connection to the whole. Personality comprises all that we know of that which exists : relation to personality comprises all that we know of that which seems to exist. And when from the little world of man's consciousness and its objects, we would lift up our eyes to the inexhaustible universe beyond, and ask to whom all this is related, the highest existence is still the highest personality; and...
Page 132 - Kant made his famous statement that there is nothing in the world or even out of it that can be called good without qualification except a good will.1...
Page 241 - ... or find fault with our own nature, which is nothing else than we ourselves, instead of using it according to the use of which it ordinarily admits. Our being, with its faculties, mind and body, is a fact not admitting of question, all things being of necessity referred to it, not it to other things.
Page 255 - Heb. iii. 5. Howbeit the apostle tells us that all those things had but a " shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things themselves,