 | William Mackintosh - Christianity - 1894 - 632 pages
...subjects and worH shippers blessings which are commonly supposed to be beyond the reach of men. . . . The notion of a man-God, or of a human being endowed with divine and supernatural powers, belongs to that early period of religious history in which God and man are... | |
 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1900 - 510 pages
...conception of the elemental forces as personal agents is giving way to the recognition of natural law ; then magic, based as it implicitly is on the idea...a man-god, or of a human being endowed with divine or supernatural powers, belongs essentially to that earlier period of religious history in which gods... | |
 | Samuel Ives Curtiss - Assyro-Babylonian religion - 1902 - 350 pages
...respect to the disembodied spirit are held of the saint and may be held of God. Frazer has well said: "The notion of a man-god, or of a human being endowed with divine or supernatural powers, belongs essentially to that earlier period of religious history in which gods... | |
 | Milton Spenser Terry - Bible - 1903 - 220 pages
..."impassable gulf which later thought opens out between them" is an erroneous fancy 1 Thus JG Frazer : "The notion of a man-god, or of a human being endowed with divine or supernatural powers, belongs essentially to that earlier period of religious history in which gods... | |
 | James George Frazer - Philosophy - 1927 - 468 pages
...conception of the elemental forces as personal agents is giving way to the recognition of natural law ; then magic, based as it implicitly is on the idea...the way for science. Alchemy leads up to chemistry. cxiv THE HOSTILITY OF RELIGION TO MAGIC1 This radical conflict of principle between magic and religion... | |
 | George W. Stocking - Social Science - 1984 - 251 pages
...the conception of elemental forces as personal agents gave way to the recognition of natural law; and "magic, based as it implicitly is on the idea of a...investigating the causal sequences in nature, directly prepared the way for science" (1890:I, 30-32). There was perhaps no topic among Frazer's anthropological... | |
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... prayer are the resource of the pious and enlightened portion of the community, while magic is the refuge of the superstitious and ignorant. But when, still later, the conception of the elemental forces as personal agents is giving way to the recognition... 
