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JChap.THE CONCEPTION OF THEOLOGYIand much317less as tlie highest conceivable, for in ethics Christthought to be far excelled, and it is maintained that further development is not at all impossible. But in general theisChristian religi ...
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318§ 63.FALSIEICATIONS OF[Div. Illand can take no stand excej^t in a science which embraces It is unscientific, these correlated phenomena as a whole. therefore, to speak of a "science of the Christian religion." If I confess a Revelation, isaphenomenon ...
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Chap.THE CONCEPTION OF THEOLOGYI]319All the other sciences have the data of nature and of history and Theology, in like manner, has the data There were two spheres, two of this supernatural history. worlds, which have become object of a proper science each. That the di ...
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320§64.DEFORMATIONS OF THEOLOGY[Div. IllGod"' was bound to falsify the conception of theology; the evil worked within the theological domain by what we call its deformations, the results of schism and heresy, is of anTheentirely different character. ...
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§ 64.CiiAi'. I]DEFORMATIONS OF THEOLOGYconcecie otlieis the right of doing the same.sion and yours contain equallyTheylittle ormuchS'llTheir confesof worth, just assame theme. Each and you stand and complement, of these variati ...
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;322§ 64.DEFORMATIONS OF THEOLOGY[Div. Illmystic antithesis springs from the tendency to let being triumph over consciousness, and, while it apparently antagonizes barren intellectualism, in reality it opposes every modification which by virtue of religion must ...
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Chap.I]§ 64.DEFORMATIONS OF THEOLOGY323viction is wanting, the confessional absolutists, on the other hand, sin through the excess of conviction, when they anathematize everything that falls outside of their own confession.This ground was divineswh ...
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324§G4.1)EPY)KMATI0XS OFTHEOLOGY[Div. Illtheology where the conviction that one knows Confessional indifferentismmanythis, forofmaythingsiswanting.isin irreconcilable conflictlie inwith ...
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;Chap.§ 64.1]DEFOKMATIONS OF THEOLOGY325gian should shrink from this qualification of defoniiation, this conception of deformation contains, on the other hand,an element of appreciatiovi, and therefore a sentence against confessional absolutism. De ...
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326weDEFORMATIONS OF THEOLOGY§ 64.lack,andnarrow-mindedness alone will^elf-sufficientrefuse sucli benefit.With[Div. Illus irenics go ever hand in handFirmly and unshakably we stand in our confession, that the trac ...