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Example sentences for "primitive revelation"

  • Mr Fairbairn makes the following remarks on the theory which traces religion to a primitive revelation: "Although often advanced in the supposed interests of religion, the principle it assumes is most irreligious.

  • But neither as documentary nor traditional can any traces of a primitive revelation be discovered, and to assume it is only to burden the question with a thesis which renders a critical and philosophic discussion alike impossible.

  • If there was a primitive revelation, it must have been--unless the word is used in an unusual and misleading sense--either written or oral.

  • This consideration ought to weigh with those who, struck by the depth and beauty of some Greek myths, theorize a corruption of primitive revelation or pure theology to explain them.

  • Otherwise, it might be questioned how a primitive revelation, after undergoing such complete disintegration and debasement, blossomed forth again into the aesthetical beauty which no one can deny to be the special property of the Greek race.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    considered them; human destiny; last night; little face; little grim; little trouble; many colors; many particulars; not necessarily; primitive history; primitive life; primitive man; primitive peoples; primitive religion; primitive society; primitive thought; primitive times; saw nothing; second degree; significant glance; south porch; utter despair; want every; well that; where late; yet was