In fact the first introduction of Christianity and the success of all missionary enterprise involvefreethinking (in its etymological sense) on the part of those converted.
Freethinking is a right which cannot and must not be limited, for it is the only means of attaining to a knowledge of truth, it essentially contributes to the well-being of society, and it is not only permitted but enjoined by the Bible.
If we speak of freethinking as of a highly dangerous journey over glaciers and frozen seas, we find that those who do not care to travel on this track are offended, as if they had been reproached with cowardice and weak knees.
Dupuis was an example of a new and rapidly increasing class of Freethinking writers--i.
During her last illness the Marquise de la Ferte-Imbault, who did not love her mother's freethinking friends, excluded them, and sent for a confessor.
Pompadour herself stole away from her tiresome lover-king to the freethinking coterie that met in her physician's apartments in the Entresol at Versailles, and included the greatest iconoclasts of the age.
The spirit of freethinking and innovating in religious matters had been remarkably prevalent in the dominions of the King of Prussia, having been much encouraged by the indifference of the late King.
Their freethinking is not all of it by any means of the dogmatic sort which has its catechism of atheism.
And if such concrete freethinking were not enough to infuriate the orthodox, they had from him the most explicit declarations that authority is derivable solely from reason.
The story itself, centring on Saladin, is of eastern origin, [1483] and so tells of even more freethinking than meets the eye in the history of Islam.
Indeed the testimonies, both Christian and Moslem, as to his freethinking are too clear to be set aside.
And while the people menaced freethinking in religion, the aristocracies opposed freethinking in politics.
Heresy of the anti-ecclesiastical order indeed abounded, and was duly persecuted; but the higher freethinking developments were in the theosophic rather than the rationalistic direction.
Thus he would have struck alike at the freethinking few and at the multitude who held by the general religious beliefs of Greece, dealing damnation on all save his own clique, in a way that would have made Torquemada blench.
Rejected by John of Salisbury in the twelfth century, and by the freethinking Pietro of Abano in 1303, it was affirmed and established by Thomas Aquinas, asserted by Gregory IX, and made a motive for uncounted slaughters by the Inquisition.
Nevertheless, untoward political conditions prevented any dissemination of the freethinking spirit in France; and not for some two centuries was there such another growth of it.
Although he took a truly Persian delight in philosophical discussion, for which purpose freethinking scholars and eminent heretics used often to meet in his house, he was careful to observe the outward forms of piety.
Philosophie, in the ordinary language of the middle and later seventeenth century, meant simply freethinking on questions of religion.
This displeasure is said to have been aggravated by his notorious membership of the freethinking and materialist school which Gassendi, if he had not founded it, had helped to spread.
It has been thought, but without sufficient ground, that Moliere here gave expression to a modified form of the freethinking which was so common at the time.
But as that may not be so likely to affect freethinking Jefferson, Morris adds the falsehood that Paine had been naturalized in France.
Footnote 4: Collins is supposed to have imbibed his freethinking philosophy during his repeated visits to Holland.
And therefore these prophets are as much atheists as myself, or as any of my freethinking brethren whom I lately named to you.
He studied at Bologna, and in 1546 became a member of a secret freethinking society in Venice.
If this be so, and if here be the product of all their quotas and contributions, we must needs allow, that freethinking is a most confined and limited talent.
Why then does Professor Huxley press the "possibility" of miracles against his Freethinking friends?
We leave Professor Huxley to present that highly edifying Theistic conclusion to his old theological opponents, and, if he likes, to flaunt it in the faces of his Freethinking friends.
His religious freethinking leads him to political freethinking, and his religious conciliatory spirit brings with it an attempt at the political conciliation of the opposing tendencies of the century.
The Danish churchman to whom Schleiermacher corresponded was Mynster, but there is a wide gulf between Schleiermacher's freethinking and Mynster's orthodoxy.
A tendency similar to that of the English deists was represented in Germany by =Matthias Knutzen=, who sought to found a freethinking sect.
It will hardly be pretended that the freethinking which went on in Moslem Persia and Spain in the eighth and later centuries was evoked by the Caliphs, though some of them for a time protected it.
Not even the Christian Greek, the least freethinking of educated moderns, supposes that the life of his race went upwards from the time of Constantine.
The Reasoner, which was established in 1846, has come to be regarded as the accredited organ of Freethinking in Great Britain.
Michaelis and Ernesti; and freethinking in Semler (pp.
Unbelievers refuse to submit to the asserted authority, and deny this claim of control over human thought: they allege that every effort at freethinking must provoke sturdier thought.
He was introduced by his freethinking antagonist, who claimed for him a respectful hearing.
In the endeavour to exclude from society all symptoms and tokens of the freethinking age, the moral taste grew alarmingly squeamish, and began to reject the most wholesome food as savouring of profaneness.
And there were yet further matters to be dealt with, as the position of freethinking jurors.
Do not let our Freethinking friends remember so much what we as a party have done towards the result, as what has been done for us by religious men, notwithstanding the cry of heresy.
In 1856 he issued a Freethinking commentary entitled, "The Bible, What it is," which went as far as Isaiah.
We have seen how he besought all of his freethinking followers to beware of seeming to presume on the vote in his favour.
Struensee had no sense of morality; he was a law unto himself, and his freethinkingviews on this and other questions were peculiarly acceptable to his royal master.
Such opinions I expected from thefreethinking lay critics, who are in no way bound to Christ's teaching and who can look upon it without restraint.
The time is coming, and is even now at hand, when the English public will discover ugly facts about Christianity without having to read books published by freethinking firms--books which the parson advises us to leave severely alone.
He knows, perhaps, that scoffers of the London parks freethinking type gibe at Holy Writ, and he may himself have made fun of some passages that appear absurd; but here his knowledge of Bible criticism ceases.
