The habit of thinking as a crowd is so widespread that it is impossible to trace the influence of its rationalistic negations in the daily mental habits of most of us.
It is no mere accident that the crowd takes to rationalistic philosophies like a duck to water.
Association of rationalistic doctrine with the Socialist movements, new and old, from Owen to Bebel.
In a much less degree he was influenced by Bacon, whose psychology he ultimately condemned; but from Hobbes he took not only his rationalistic attitude towards "revelation," but his doctrine of ecclesiastical subordination.
Only by men who had not read or had forgotten universal history could the ascription of the French Revolution to rationalistic thought have been made.
If any one circumstance more than another differentiates the life of to-day from that of older civilizations, or from that of previous centuries of the modern era, it is the diffusion of rationalistic views among the "common people.
As to Wolff's rationalistic influence see Cairns, Unbelief in the Eighteenth Century, 1881, p.
For a generation back, further, rationalistic essays have appeared from time to time not only in the Fortnightly Review (founded by G.
The new literary growth dating from the time of Toland is the evidence of the richness of the rationalistic soil already created.
Owen alone rejected alike supernaturalism and cultus; and his movement left the most definite rationalistic traces.
Nor is he more happy in his rationalistic explanations of the whole mass of myths.
As to the other great animals mentioned in Scripture, he is so rationalisticas to admit that behemoth was an elephant and leviathan a whale.
If historical records merit any confidence in spite of difficulties of detail, no person of sincerity would hesitate to give the preference to the theological rather than the rationalistic method.
And besides, what new documents can rationalistic science bring to light not perfectly known and considered by the Catholic theologians of the last three centuries?
There is here revealed a possibility of ethical scepticism which evolutionistic ethics (as well as intuitive or rationalistic ethics) has overlooked.
This assumption was a consequence of Kant's rationalistic tendency, but one for which no warrant can be given.
In the following year the unionistic andrationalistic Agenda characterized above was adopted by the Ministerium.
Many of the books coming from Helmstedt were of a rationalistic character.
The second formula for burials had a rationalistic tang.
Those that remained were simply a few relatives of the same clan and others like them, who eventually left after the completion of the three days' rationalistic liturgies.
The religious unrest which had been engendered by the Reformation gave rise to several rationalistic sects with radical, anti-ecclesiastic tendencies.
Moses Isserles and Mordecai Jaffe commented, as was pointed out above, on the "Guide" of Maimonides in a superficial manner, fighting shy of its inconvenient rationalistic deductions.
In the 9th century Hivi of Balkh wrote a rationalistic treatise[10] on difficulties in the Bible, which was refuted by Seadiah.
On the one hand he turned his weapons against the rationalistic school, who reduced religion to the modicum compatible with an ordinary worldly mind.
Only this coarse, rank, real love of men seems to be entirely lacking in those who propose the love of humanity as a substitute for all other love; honourable, rationalistic idealists.
Now I have never seen any rationalistic idealists do this.
Such, to the ignorant imagination, is the Destroying Angel to which rationalistic artists and poets have tried to add wings and majesty; but which in the popular mind was no doubt pictured more like this form found at Ostia (fig.
This had become the rationalistic translation by a crude science of the primitive demons, once believed to have created the heavens and the earth.
The Spanish Inquisition was too orthodox to accept so rationalistic a view of sorcery, and continued to prosecute it as a reality.
Possibly the diffusion of this modern rationalistic spirit, insensibly affecting even those opposed to it, may partly explain the rapidly diminishing activity of the Inquisition.
Although the Inquisition was thus growing rationalistic in its treatment of these cases, it was impossible to eradicate popular credulity with its accompanying temptation to exploitation.
Still we cannot but look on his loose assertions as the result of the rationalistic spirit that has begun so rapidly to pervade the most conservative of English universities.
Geneviève, just outside Paris, a large band of students, in whom he inculcated his rationalistic methods.
The movement was one which, narrow as it seems to us, yet made for ultimate freedom of human thought; for it meant the exercise of the intellect on matters which for long were regarded as beyond the reach of rationalistic explanation.
Kant’s own philosophy stood wholly outside of Christianity, on the same platform with rationalistic theology.
In the Reformed church the opposition of methodistically tinctured orthodoxy, reinforced from England and French Switzerland, and rationalistic freethinking, led to sharp conflicts.
A synod of 1834 provided this state church with union-rationalistic agenda, hymnbook, and catechism.
Restored Lutheran Church= or =Old Light= was organized on the occasion of the intrusion of a rationalistic pastor.
Although several of these have proved defenders of ecclesiastical orthodoxy, the rationalistic Illumination became almost universally prevalent not only among the clergy but also among the general populace.
Catholic theology too was affected by the rationalistic movement.
The number of congregations, however, remained small, and their importance in church history consists rather in the development of an independent church life than in the revival of a semipelagian and rationalistic type of doctrine.
The French philosophy of the eighteenth century had given to the Reformed church of =Geneva= a prevailingly rationalistic tendency.
Jerusalem, Zollikofer, and others did much to spread rationalistic views by their preaching.
I have explained them; polite agnostics apologize for them, or cast Paine over as a Jonah of the rationalistic ship.
Lastly, the Kabbalists were prejudiced against both the literal Talmudists and the rationalistic Maimunists.
Miracles were not inevitable in Maimuni's philosophy; but attempts were made to reduce them as far as possible to natural causes, and to interpret in a rationalistic manner the Biblical verses which contain them.
This interpretation was employed for the purpose of bridging over the gulf existing between the rationalistic idea of God and the irrational idea as taught by the Koran.
Chivi was the first thoroughly consistent, rationalistic critic of the Bible.
Many commentators, by reason of their rationalistic explanations, came into conflict with the champions of the text, and were branded by them as heretics.
The rationalistic Mutazilist theology of the Mahometans, although denounced at first as heretical, steadily gained ascendancy; the schools of Bagdad and Bassora rang with its doctrines.
I say that these mistakes, admitted mistakes which I make no vain attempt to explain away, constitute a confirmation of the story as given in the Acts against modern rationalistic opponents.
The rationalistic commentators of Germany have urged that St. Luke composed a fancy speech and put it into the mouth of Gamaliel, and in doing so made a great historic mistake.
