| John Bennett Black - 1926 - 220 páginas
...can possibly be imagined." — Of Miracles, Part I. • Enquiry, p. 119. 1 " Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a test as it is, by no means, fitted to endure." — Enquiry, p. 130. province of the intellect alone... | |
| H. N. Fairchild - 2010 - 428 páginas
...Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason: and it is a sure...a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure." But this undoubtedly malicious argument is uttered by a man who denies the validity of reason without... | |
| George Stern - 1971 - 172 páginas
...employment of different faculties, and for Wittgenstein a matter of different planes of meaning: Religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. 16 Suppose that someone believed in the Last Judgement, and I don't, does this mean that I believe... | |
| Justo L. Gonzalez - 1984 - 438 páginas
...-= O .2 O o 3 Jü , _u^ U _ U >P: t« ~^ 3 ^ (X l4/An Age of Dogma and Doubt Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. DAVID HUME The sixteenth century had been a period of enormous religious vitality that swept Protestants... | |
| Colin Brown, Steve Wilkens, Alan G. Padgett - 1990 - 456 páginas
...violation of the laws of nature."" It remained for Hume to draw the conclusion that "our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...it to such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure."38 If the first half of this sentence sounded like an endorsement of piety, the second half... | |
| Diogenes Allen, Eric O. Springsted - 1992 - 324 páginas
...religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles related in scripture; and not to lose ourselves... | |
| David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - 170 páginas
...Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles, related in scripture; and not to lose ourselves... | |
| William L. Portier - 1994 - 394 páginas
...the eighteenth century philosopher David Hume ended his essay "Of Miracles": Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. This passage should be an insult to any intelligent Christian. If it is true, then "faith" can be used... | |
| R. Douglas Geivett, Gary R. Habermas - 1997 - 340 páginas
...Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles, related in scripture; and not to lose ourselves... | |
| Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 páginas
...of religious truth. In a very famous (and sarcastic) sentence, he adds. 215 Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. He makes it clear that this critique of miracles can also "be applied, without any variation, to prophesies"... | |
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