A peculiarly characteristic artifice and pretext of Christian sophistry is the doctrine of the unsearchableness, the incomprehensibility of the divine nature.
In the original sense of religion, the incomprehensibility of God has only the significance of an impassioned expression.
But, as will be shown, the secret of this incomprehensibilityis nothing further than that a known quality is made into an unknown one, a natural quality into a supernatural, i.
What is clearest amid this incomprehensibility is that the spiritualistic theory, at first sight the most seductive, declares itself, on examination, the most difficult to justify.
Its results, then, amount only to the incomprehensibilityof matter.
And, moreover, the doctrine of the divine incomprehensibility has always been maintained by the greatest metaphysicians as well as the greatest theologians.
The one ineluctable fact in the universe is the incomprehensibilityand all-inclusivity of one-ness.
As a result of the indefiniteness and incomprehensibility of primitive languages, these names are said to have been taken by later generations as proof of their descent from the animals themselves.
The constant, universal sense of all antiquity unanimously confessing anincomprehensibility in many of the articles of the Christian faith.
Even the incomprehensibility of this capacity,[61] a capacity which proclaims a Divine origin, must rouse man's spirit to enthusiasm and strengthen it for any sacrifices which respect for his duty may impose on him.
The difficulties arising out of this incomprehensibility of the causal interrelations of mind and body are not, however, in themselves a valid argument against a dualistic interpretation of the real.
We have represented, that the incomprehensibility of natural effects was not a sufficient reason for assigning to them a system still more incomprehensible than any of those of which, at least, we have a slight knowledge.
From ratiocinations concerning the incomprehensibility of infinite space and time, Hamilton and Mansel pass at once to conclusions concerning the incomprehensibility of God.
I had rather keep to an infinity whose incomprehensibility has no bounds than restrict myself to a God whose incomprehensibility is limited on every side.
This is the language of many who do not reflect that the same incomprehensibility is found in the exercise of secondary causality, both in the corporeal and in the incorporeal world.
Bayle has more often inculcated than this, that the incomprehensibility of a dogma and the insolubility of the objections that oppose it provide no legitimate reason for rejecting it.
And to complete the resemblance more, there may be something of the infallibility and incomprehensibility of the divine majesty here represented.
And to complete the resemblance more, there may be something of the infallibility and incomprehensibility of the divine Majesty here represented.
The occasionalists had hesitatingly questioned these conclusions a little, the incomprehensibility as well as the actuality, only at last to leave them intact.
But it is just this insight into the incomprehensibility of the infinite which gives us a true knowledge of God; this is the meaning of the "learned ignorance," the docta ignorantia.
This principle maybe established inductively from the incomprehensibility of the ultimate scientific ideas, as well as deductively from the nature of intelligence, through an analysis of the product and the process of thought.
He seeks only to show the indemonstrability andincomprehensibility of freedom, not to reject it.
Art is the revelation and vindication of freedom, because it is free from the darkness and incomprehensibility of finite things.
For an instant Sir George's face had cleared at this information; but it had clouded again at the utter incomprehensibility of the whole affair.
That Nicolai and Engel had in different ways contributed to disenchant the nation; but above all the incomprehensibilityof the philosopher and his philosophy.
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