| New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pagine
...purer sense of its spirit. Dr. Whewell says, "The meaning which any generation puts upon the phases of Scripture depends more than is at first sight supposed upon the philosophy of the time. Hence, when men imagine that they are contending for revelation they are in... | |
| 1846 - 398 pagine
...common notions, and are thus effectually subservient to the moral and religous import of revelation. " The meaning which any generation puts upon the phrases of Scripture, depends, more than is at first supposed, upon the received philosophy of the time. Hence, while men imagine that they are contending... | |
| 1842 - 1008 pagine
...thought, as severe as philosophy. — SOUTH. THE meaning which any generation puts upon the phrasrt of Scripture depends, more than is at first sight...in fact contending for their own interpretation of rereJut ion unconsciously adapted to what they believe to be rationally probable. And the new interpretation... | |
| 1844 - 1128 pagine
...sciences. " In the first place, the meaning which any generation puts upon the phrases of Jvripture, depends, more than is at first sight supposed, upon...philosophy of the time. Hence, while men imagine that they arc contending for revelation, they are in fact contending for their own interpretation of revelation,... | |
| 1846 - 576 pagine
...interpretation, that having been previously moulded by the erroneous state of physical knowledge. " The meaning which any generation puts upon the phrases...Scripture, depends, more than is at first sight supposed, uj)on the received philosophy of the time. Hence, while men imagine that they arc contending for revelation,... | |
| 1846 - 592 pagine
...contending. Dr. "Whewell haa well observed in his History of the Inductive Sciences, (vol. i. p. 402,) that ' the meaning which any generation puts upon the ' phrases of Scripture, depends, more than is atfirst sight supposed, ' upon the received philosophy of the time. Hence, while men ' imagine that... | |
| 1847 - 782 pagine
...written in regard to scientific subjects ? On this point, moreover, it is well remarked by Whewell,* that "the meaning which any generation puts upon the phrases...adapted to what they believe to be rationally probable." Nd stronger example illustrative of this remark, can be cited, than the science of Astronomy, and the... | |
| 1847 - 776 pagine
...written in regard to scientific subjects ? On this point, moreover, it is well remarked by Whewell,* that "the meaning which any generation puts upon the phrases...adapted to what they believe to be rationally probable." No stronger example illustrative of this remark, can be cited, than the science of Astronomy, and the... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1847 - 792 pagine
...written in regard to scientific subjects 1 On this point, moreover, it is well remarked by Whewell,* that "the meaning which any generation puts upon the phrases...adapted to what they believe to be rationally probable." No stronger example illustrative of this remark, can be cited, than the science of Astronomy, and the... | |
| 1847 - 452 pagine
...common notions, and are thus effectually subservient to the moral and religious import of revelation. "The meaning which any generation puts upon the phrases of Scripture, depends, more than is at first supposed, upon the received philosophy of the time. Hence, while men imagine that they are contending... | |
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