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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 258 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=15mm, Gew.=381gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 258 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=15mm, Gew.=381gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: be as dangerous as keeping it apart from the thought and experience of the modern spirit. If now we inquire what are the causes which impel to a restatement of the idea of God, we may discover some of them in the following conditions, to a consideration of which the remainder of this section will be devoted. There is first the impulse from the changed views which have taken place in all other departments of human interest. There is not a single subject on which the content of men's thought remains the same as it was no longer than fifty years ago. To feel the force of this suggestion one would have only to pass in rapid survey a few of the great outstanding judgments and beliefs of that time. The point of view, the instruments of investigation, the method of inquiry, the things sought for and discovered, the particular interests involved, all are different. And when we come to religious questions, the same is true. Of the historic doctrines of the church, aside from the idea of God, not one but has undergone redefinition?inspiration, revelation, the Scriptures, authority, creation, providence, the supernatural, sin, the person and work of Christ, conversion, prayer, the world to come. This fact creates a strong presumption and expectancy that a corresponding change will mark the present-day idea of God. We have to recognize the dominance of the scientific spirit as compared with the spirit which prevailed during chapter{Section 4' the period when the idea of God was formulated. The scientific spirit is marked by certain characteristic tendencies and habits. Its approach to reality is through observation and experiment. It relies upon inductive verification. All questions which involve human beliefs, customs, and ideals are subjected to historical inquiry. In no field of i...<

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The Idea of God Historical Critical Constructive Author :Clarence Augustine Beckwith 9780217117746 0217117740