Lowell Lectures: On the Application of Metaphysical and Ethical Science to the Evidence of Religion"These lectures were given under the auspices of the Lowell Institute of Boston, MA in 1848-1849. In this series of lectures Bowen endeavours to show that the fundamental doctrines of religion rest upon the same basis that supports all science, and that they cannot be denied without also rejecting familiar truths that are adopted almost unconsciously, and upon which the conduct of life and the regulation of our ordinary concerns. Bowen argues that the time seems to have arrived for a more practical and immediate verification than the world has ever witnessed of the great truth, that the civilization that is not based upon Christianity is big with the elements of its own destruction." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved). |
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... Creator of heaven and earth , really distinct from nature , though pervading it with his presence , all - wise and all - powerful , the conscious Cause and present Ruler of all things . I am not taking these attributes for granted , but ...
... Creator of heaven and earth , really distinct from nature , though pervading it with his presence , all - wise and all - powerful , the conscious Cause and present Ruler of all things . I am not taking these attributes for granted , but ...
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... Creator from the character and ten- dency of his works . In either case , the light of nature , or a Divinely appointed messenger , or a miracle , announces to us a solemn , an awful reality , — that the moral law is His law , and ...
... Creator from the character and ten- dency of his works . In either case , the light of nature , or a Divinely appointed messenger , or a miracle , announces to us a solemn , an awful reality , — that the moral law is His law , and ...
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... would not enable us to prove the existence of its Creator . But the instant a change occurs , as soon as a sound is heard , or a leaf falls , or only quiv- ers on its bough , we declare without hesitation , THE IDEA OF CAUSE . 69.
... would not enable us to prove the existence of its Creator . But the instant a change occurs , as soon as a sound is heard , or a leaf falls , or only quiv- ers on its bough , we declare without hesitation , THE IDEA OF CAUSE . 69.
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... Creator , then , is no longer banished from his creation , nor is the latter an orphan , or a deserted child . It is not a great machine , that was wound up at the beginning , and has continued to run on ever since , without aid or ...
... Creator , then , is no longer banished from his creation , nor is the latter an orphan , or a deserted child . It is not a great machine , that was wound up at the beginning , and has continued to run on ever since , without aid or ...
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... Creator only from an act of creation assumed to have been completed long ago , if a useful , is still a frigid , result of the in- quiry . It seems too much like establishing some remote fact in history , which ceased long since to have ...
... Creator only from an act of creation assumed to have been completed long ago , if a useful , is still a frigid , result of the in- quiry . It seems too much like establishing some remote fact in history , which ceased long since to have ...
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