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... in the Roman Catholic Church - " a doctrine which Protestantism , too , has adopted , although Pro- testantism , from its inherent element of freedom , may find it easier to escape from it ; a doctrine with a cer- tain attraction for ...
... in the Roman Catholic Church - " a doctrine which Protestantism , too , has adopted , although Pro- testantism , from its inherent element of freedom , may find it easier to escape from it ; a doctrine with a cer- tain attraction for ...
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... in the Roman Catholic Church- " a doctrine which Protestantism , too , has adopted , although Pro- testantism , from its inherent element of freedom , may find it easier to escape from it ; a doctrine with a cer- tain attraction for all ...
... in the Roman Catholic Church- " a doctrine which Protestantism , too , has adopted , although Pro- testantism , from its inherent element of freedom , may find it easier to escape from it ; a doctrine with a cer- tain attraction for all ...
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... of the Church , upon a narrow conception of ... in the direction of Catholic usage . The sacerdotal idea was elevated into a dogma , confession was enjoined in theory and encouraged in practice , and an almost pon- tifical conception of ...
... of the Church , upon a narrow conception of ... in the direction of Catholic usage . The sacerdotal idea was elevated into a dogma , confession was enjoined in theory and encouraged in practice , and an almost pon- tifical conception of ...
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... Roman Catholic Church history a greater degree of probability than to those of the Gospel story , since in the former case the records are contem- porary , they emanate from a less imaginative atmo- sphere and a less ignorant age , and ...
... Roman Catholic Church history a greater degree of probability than to those of the Gospel story , since in the former case the records are contem- porary , they emanate from a less imaginative atmo- sphere and a less ignorant age , and ...
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... of the provincial spirit , " he tells us in one of his essays , consists in carrying ... Church and Dissent , a classification the very last which would have ... Roman Catholic , Liberal and Conservative , rich and poor , educated and ...
... of the provincial spirit , " he tells us in one of his essays , consists in carrying ... Church and Dissent , a classification the very last which would have ... Roman Catholic , Liberal and Conservative , rich and poor , educated and ...
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Page 52 - There is the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty. The power of conduct is the greatest of all.
Page 14 - Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.
Page 168 - Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost...
Page 23 - It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords.
Page 18 - I say that the English reliance on our religious organisations and on their ideas of human perfection just as they stand, is like our reliance on freedom, on muscular Christianity, on population, on coal, on wealth, — mere belief in machinery, and unfruitful...
Page 143 - Religion, if we follow the intention of human thought and human language in the use of the word, is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit] up by feeling ; the passage from morality to religion is made when to morality is applied emotion. And the true meaning of religion is thus not morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Page 14 - There is a view in which all the love of our neighbour, the impulses towards action, help, and beneficence, the desire for removing human error, clearing human confusion, and diminishing human misery, the noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we found it...
Page 98 - ... the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners...