But in mind there is a very different power available against that externalism and dismemberment induced by a false religion.
All this binds the spirit under an externalism by which the very meaning of spirit is perverted and misconceived at its source, and law and justice, morality and conscience, responsibility and duty are corrupted at their root.
But with the rise of mind in nature the bond of externalism is implicitly overcome.
He opposes the law of Pharisaic externalism in the interests of the law of Christian love.
The gospel ofexternalism is dear to the human heart.
It is true, of course, that in the end Pharisaic legalism perverted the new forms of worship, as heathen externalism had perverted the old.
So long as the Psalms were being written religious life must have been vigorous and healthy, and to date the beginnings of Pharisaic externalism from Josiah's day must consequently be an error.
But he withdrew utterly disgusted with the godless frivolity and immorality which he witnessed among the clergy on every side, and dissatisfied with the externalism of the penitential exercises which he had undertaken.
About the end of the 4th century lively protests were made against the superstitions and shallow externalism of the church.
This externalism gave Catholicism a great advantage on all sides.
To us Christians there is a hardness, a narrowness, a painful externalism in the whole of this religious movement.
And in that age of externalism the difference in organic form between the Anglican church and the little synagogues of Christian seceders founded by Paul in the Levant weighed heavily upon the minds of earnest people.
And where the beliefs are dying, the latent externalism and materialism of Western thought and Western life are able to assert themselves without let or hindrance.
This is the provision that externalism makes for the practical inculcation of truthfulness,--a virtue which its religion and its ethics profess to honour above all others.
Externalism and formalism seem to have been their most frequent characteristics; and externalism and formalism are poor weapons when the enemy cometh in like a food.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "externalism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
