An Examination of Canon Liddon's Bampton Lectures on the Divinity of Jesus Christ, by a Clergyman of the Church of England [C. Voysey]. - Softcover
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Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilitą di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro č Non illustrato. 1871 edition. Estratto: ...furnishes against the dogma of our Lord's proper Deity, has hitherto been allusive and incidental, rather than detailed and direct. I have had occasion to expose the weakness of the defences, rather than actively to assail the position defended. But there are texts in the writings of St Paul which have no rational significance at all, if they do not exclude the doctrine for which Mr Liddon contends. 1 argue, of course, from the Protestant ground, that Holy Scripture contains a Revelation addressed to the human intelligence, and is a sufficient Rule for the instruction of the human mind in matters of Faith, as well as of practice. From the Catholic ground, that Scripture is only a subordinate factor in a complex Rule, and is constructed by Divine Wisdom to be valueless in relation to the mysteries of the Faith, apart from the Church's authoritative interpreting voice, merely logical deductions have manifestly no place, and merely rational conclusions no weight. The weakness of Mr Liddon's book results from the fact of his not avowedly 168 The Truth of our Lord's Humanity. standing upon the Catholic ground, but writing as though reason could follow the steps, and reach the decisions of ecclesiastical inspiration, in ascertaining the sense of documents which are themselves adapted by inspiration to veil their meaning from every gaze but that of Divinely-illuminated ecclesiastical insight. I disclaim the notion that, in criticising his pleas, I am dealing with the broad and comprehensive question, whether his doctrine is true or false; I deal only with the narrow and partial question, whether it can or cannot be proved from Scripture, by proofs which the human...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150640979
- ISBN 13 9781150640971
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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