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Surely the only theory which enables a man rationally to believe in Divine justice, without shutting his eyes to obvious facts, is a theory worthy of study. "Modern theology concerns itself principally with a plan for evading divine justice, which it elects to call 'Salvation, and it makes this plan depend entirely upon what a man believes, or rather upon what he says that he believes.
Opinions so held belong to the theology of hell, not necessarily altogether false in form, but false utterly in heart and spirit.
Let us, then, say, with the celebrated Lord Bolingbroke, in his posthumous works: "Theology is the Box of Pandora; and if it is impossible to close it, it is at least useful to give warning that this fatal box is open." I believe, my dear friends, that I have given you a sufficient preventative against all these follies.
The Bridgwater Treatises, which belong to the reign of William IV., are evidence of a widespread anxiety to reconcile the claims and conclusions of science with those of the received theology.
The true object for religious thought is Christ, and His life and death. All religious truth flows from and is wrapped up in that: e.g. theology, or the nature of God; anthropology, or the nature of man; soteriology, morality, etc. All truth for the individual and for the race has its source in God's great redeeming act.
Lockhaven and theology were behind her, and yet in some indefinable way she was a stranger in a strange land. Lois felt no difference. Helen had been away for a long time, but she was still the same Helen to her; strong, and true, and gentle, with perhaps a little more gravity in her eyes, but Lois was so grave herself she did not notice that.
"Oh, the merry life a bandit lives!" cried the student of theology, after he had swallowed a few mouthfuls. "You'll try it some day, perhaps, Signor della Rebbia, and you'll find out how delightful it is to acknowledge no master save one's own fancy!" Hitherto the bandit had talked Italian. He now proceeded in French.
We know that the spirits of men and their views of the present and the future go up and down with the barometer, and that a permanent depression of one inch in the mercurial column would affect the whole theology of Christendom. "Ministers talk about the human will as if it stood on a high look-out, with plenty of light, and elbowroom reaching to the horizon.
This may not be Deus-ex-machina philosophy, but it is physical theology; that is to say, it treats divine action as one factor among the factors which together constitute the working of the natural system.
In 1866 he was appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, which he held until 1893, when he became Master of Balliol Coll., from which he retired in 1907. He has written Critical Philosophy of Kant , Hegel , Evolution of Religion, Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte , Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers .
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