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... existence , temporal and timeless , finite and divine . To " follow nature " is accordingly to follow reason — including moral reason . The natural or philosophical theologian has then to consider whether men are doing this when they ...
... existence , temporal and timeless , finite and divine . To " follow nature " is accordingly to follow reason — including moral reason . The natural or philosophical theologian has then to consider whether men are doing this when they ...
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... quantity of existence in space , duration , and causation , according to the way in tive issue , to the way in which it is re- garded . which it is handled , may nourish either sceptical nesci- 4 PHILOSOPHY OF THEISM .
... quantity of existence in space , duration , and causation , according to the way in tive issue , to the way in which it is re- garded . which it is handled , may nourish either sceptical nesci- 4 PHILOSOPHY OF THEISM .
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... existence , under which all seems to lose itself at last in causal mystery , becomes the very minister of moral and theistic faith , when what is causal mystery for the scien- tific understanding is handled in reverential humility , and ...
... existence , under which all seems to lose itself at last in causal mystery , becomes the very minister of moral and theistic faith , when what is causal mystery for the scien- tific understanding is handled in reverential humility , and ...
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... existence through another thing , but in which all are only things , not persons . Proper personality , with its implicate of moral re- sponsibility , is here excluded as that for which there is no intellectual room : physical causality ...
... existence through another thing , but in which all are only things , not persons . Proper personality , with its implicate of moral re- sponsibility , is here excluded as that for which there is no intellectual room : physical causality ...
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... existence what ought not to exist , what accordingly is not necessitated to exist , but may be brought into existence , in opposition to the Supreme Power , by an intending act of the indi- vidual person who brings it into existence ...
... existence what ought not to exist , what accordingly is not necessitated to exist , but may be brought into existence , in opposition to the Supreme Power , by an intending act of the indi- vidual person who brings it into existence ...
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