Then, on the other hand, there are freethinkers, who oppose in particular the stubborn dogma of Islam, reject positive religion, and acknowledge only the moral law.
No positive religioncan do more for its followers than faith in the revelation through Christ and the prophets did for the Apologists.
This necessarily gave rise to the assumption of an esoteric and exoteric form of the Christian religion, for it is only behind the statutory, positive religion of the Church that religion itself is found.
But, in many books, the “religion of the future” is no more than a somewhat hypocritical compromise with some form of positive religion.
Positive religion demands a finite world: primitive people did not rear temples to the Infinite in the hopes of domesticating Him.
Over and above the confusion between the perpetuity of metaphysics and morals and that of positive religion, there is another tendency among our contemporaries against which we have wished to protest.
In this rests its positive character, in all else, as piety, it is by its strictly spiritual and inward attitude, not a positive religion alongside of others, but religion itself.
They had lost the idea of positive religion, and with it a living and just conception of the history of religion.
In this and in the deeper conception of the nature and significance of positive religion, lay the advance beyond Rationalism.
The explanation of the rise of positive religion and of the claim of revelation is sought in the hypothesis of deceit, of ambitious priestcraft and incurable credulity.
Christianity is a positive religion in the sense that it has direct relation to certain facts in the history of the race, most of all to the person of Jesus of Nazareth.
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