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Aubrey Thomas de Vere

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Description:Excerpt from The Subjective Difficulties in ReligionBut this is not all. They afirmed not only that faith - a faith not superseding reason but strengthening and directing it - was possible to man, and was his deepest necessity, but much more, viz. That it was his great initiatory spiritual gift. As the optic nerve expands into the retina, so faith was regarded as the nearer and rudimental part, exercised on earth, of a power destined to be developed after a glorified fashion in heaven, there passing into Beatific Vision. Such a power could neither have been regarded as a thing inconsider able, nor as one but accidentally connected with man's appreciation of Truth Revealed. It is a thing dishonestly unreasonable, while deal ing with revelation to ignore the hypothesis on which it rests. On that hypothesis faith is a transcendent spiritual power crowning our intellectual being, as our intellect crowns our animal being; and where it has its perfect work, religion shows itself so plainly to reason enlightened and emancipated that not to believe seems a thing self willed and unreasonable. Such a claim was a strong one, doubtless; but its right divine was attested by its victory. The Faith con quered the world; and the world, thus conquered, bore the yoke of truth as lightly as a garland. A civilisation such as the old empires, which had degraded the moral more than they exalted the political status of man, never dreamed of, planted pure feet on the earth, and placed it in connection with higher worlds. Divine truth seemed to have become part of man's natural heritage, and arts unknown be fore passed centuries in singing its praise and picturing its calendars.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Subjective Difficulties in Religion (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Subjective Difficulties in Religion (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Subjective Difficulties in ReligionBut this is not all. They afirmed not only that faith - a faith not superseding reason but strengthening and directing it - was possible to man, and was his deepest necessity, but much more, viz. That it was his great initiatory spiritual gift. As the optic nerve expands into the retina, so faith was regarded as the nearer and rudimental part, exercised on earth, of a power destined to be developed after a glorified fashion in heaven, there passing into Beatific Vision. Such a power could neither have been regarded as a thing inconsider able, nor as one but accidentally connected with man's appreciation of Truth Revealed. It is a thing dishonestly unreasonable, while deal ing with revelation to ignore the hypothesis on which it rests. On that hypothesis faith is a transcendent spiritual power crowning our intellectual being, as our intellect crowns our animal being; and where it has its perfect work, religion shows itself so plainly to reason enlightened and emancipated that not to believe seems a thing self willed and unreasonable. Such a claim was a strong one, doubtless; but its right divine was attested by its victory. The Faith con quered the world; and the world, thus conquered, bore the yoke of truth as lightly as a garland. A civilisation such as the old empires, which had degraded the moral more than they exalted the political status of man, never dreamed of, planted pure feet on the earth, and placed it in connection with higher worlds. Divine truth seemed to have become part of man's natural heritage, and arts unknown be fore passed centuries in singing its praise and picturing its calendars.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Subjective Difficulties in Religion (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Subjective Difficulties in Religion (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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