And even in the field of anthropology the sound thinking of Fontenelle and De Brosses long preceded any equally valid work by rationalists in Germany; though Spencer of Cambridge had preceded them in his work of constructive orthodoxy.
It is true that the progressive work was not all done by the Rationalists so-called.
Beginning with the Old Testament, criticism gradually saw more and more of mere myth where of old men had seen miracle, and where the first rationalists saw natural events misconceived.
While some professed rationalists thus belittle a series of pioneers who did so much to make later rationalism possible, some eminent theologians do them justice.
Since her day the names of Harriet Martineau and George Eliot tell of the continual gain of knowledge; and women rationalists are now to be counted by thousands in all the more civilized countries.
Gradually that had developed a greater precision of method, though there were to be witnessed repetitions of the intellectual anomalies of the past, so-called rationalists losing the way while supernaturalists occasionally found it.
It is true that, as one critic puts it, suchrationalists were not "quite clear whither they were bound.
And thus the Brethren replied to the Rationalists by appealing to personal experience.
From these ancestors was born a generation of rationalists and atheists, who celebrated their triumphs, first in the French Revolution, and afterwards in the general dissolution of organized society.
The Rationalists in Germany led to disbelief in the inspiration and authenticity of the Holy Scriptures.
In regard to this, it might seem, the rationalists were more straightforward.
But Schleiermacher threw the aegis of his authority over the authenticity of the Gospel, and it was the favourite Gospel of the rationalists because it contained fewer miracles than the others.
The pure rationalists found it much more difficult than did the mediating theologians, whether of the older or younger school, to adjust their attitude to the new solution of the miracle question.
As Strauss is disposed to deal much more peremptorily with therationalists than with the supernaturalists, he puts Mark upon his trial, as their accessory before the fact, and pronounces upon him a judgment which is not entirely unprejudiced.
For therationalists all miracles stood on the same footing, and all must equally be abolished by a naturalistic explanation.
Inborn rationalists and inborn pragmatists will never convert each other.
Refutations of error should be left to the rationalists alone.
We might rather say that throughout the whole world, in the East as well as in the West, rationalists seek definition and believe in the concept, while vitalists seek inspiration and believe in the person.
And when rationalists say that the ancient world was more enlightened than the Christian, from their point of view they are right.
It is we Christians who accept all actual evidence--it is you rationalists who refuse actual evidence, being constrained to do so by your creed.
It had that rooted and natural conviction that the Millennium was coming to-morrow which has been the conviction of all iconoclasts and reformers, and for which some rationalists have been absurd enough to blame the early Christians.
The God of the Israelites, as well as the God of the Jews after they had rejected Christ, stood to the God of Israel in the same relation as does the God of the Deists and Rationalists to the God of the Christians.
This is why so many of those students who sit in the classes of the rationalists in our colleges and seminaries lose their faith.
It is not =facts= that the Church either fears or refuses to accept, but such an =interpretation= of them by evolutionists and rationalists as to deny the scientific accuracy and therefore the inerrancy of the Word of God.
Hadi criticises theRationalists for their setting up man as an independent creator of evil, and accuses them of what he calls "veiled dualism".
Even among the Rationalists there were some more critical minds--such as Nazzam--whose attitude towards Greek Philosophy was not one of servile submission, but of independent criticism.
They denied the existence of an everchanging primary stuff common to all things, and maintained against the Rationalists that existence constitutes the very being of the essence.
Thus it is clear that the Rationalists were philosophically materialists, and theologically deists.
From the laterRationalists they borrowed their conception of Divinity.
But when the rationalists try to comprehend the highest things with their rustic intelligence, then they see light as darkness, good as evil, the eternal as temporal.
Voltaire and Heine are counted among the greatest rationalists because they judged of spiritual things by rustic intelligence.
The Rationalists and Friends of Light, however, prevented progress except in a few states.
The rationalists were compelled to make appeal to the people by popular agitators.
Hahn in an academical discussion at Leipzig maintained that the rationalists should be expelled from the church, and Hengstenberg started his Evangelische Kirchenzeitung.
Rationalists of all descriptions, adherents of Baur’s school, as well as disciples of Hegel and Schleiermacher of the left wing, kept far off from every evangelical union.
The latter did not appeal to pure rationalists like Ibn Daud or Maimonides, and the former seemed unconvincing, as it was employed in a lost cause.
Empiricist writers give him a materialism, rationalists give him something religious, but to that religion "actual things are blank.
Here I take the bull by the horns, and in spite of the whole crew of rationalists and monists, of whatever brand they be, I ask WHY NOT?
To rationalists this describes a tramp and vagrant world, adrift in space, with neither elephant nor tortoise to plant the sole of its foot upon.
Empiricists as a rule, are as stout monists of this abstract kind as rationalists are.
Surely in this field of truth it is the pragmatists and not the rationalists who are the more genuine defenders of the universe's rationality.
Why shouldn't we all of us, rationalists as well as pragmatists, confess this?
He knows; and distrust of himself or his conclusions is as foreign to him as to the rationalists of our century and decade.
Sectarians and rationalists claim to be free, and to reason freely, because, as they pretend, they are bound by no human authority, and recognize no authority in faith but their own reason.
It is otherwise with reference to the lyceums and colleges, where the religious have secured a greater influence over the pupils, though rationalists and sceptics still continue to fill some of the chairs.
Judgment Descartes onrationalists and empiricists both mistake nature of Kant on synthetic judgments a priori the categories and, in Kant judgments of perception and of experience in Kant Kant on aesthetic and teleological Jungius Kaatz, H.
Rationalists and empiricists alike have been deceived in regard to the necessity for co-operation between the senses and the understanding.
The rationalists made judgment an active function, it is true, but a mere activity of conscious development, of elucidation and analytical inference, which does not advance knowledge a single step.
We possess a small pamphlet by him dealing with our subject, and it forms a kind of prologue to his collection of controversial letters against the rationalists of his time.
The rationalists write treatises on Maimonides' philosophical works, whilst the German Talmudists add commentary to commentary.
Although Schleiermacher accepted and even went beyond the negative criticism of the rationalists against the doctrines of the Church, he sought to retain the essential aspects of positive Christianity.
Neither the out-and-out rationalists nor the orthodox students of the Bible approved of this new mode of interpretation, which was more or less the outcome of the study of the sacred books of other religions.
Are we Rationalists so wicked, so miserable, so useless in the world, so terrified of the shadow of death?
Probably there are more Sceptics and Rationalists in France than in any other country.
The Catholic Church still accepts the Bible, but explains away the meaning of many of its doctrines; the rationalists would sweep away its divine authority, extinguish faith, and leave the world in night.
Modern Rationalists therefore sought, with their new advantages, to augment and systematize these conquests.
The pretensions of reason being denied as false, and rationalists themselves persecuted as dangerous, they had no alternative but to criticise in order to vindicate their own principles, and weaken the credit and power of their opponents.
Sender belonged, the distinction is not always easily drawn--although these rationalists professedly recognized in Scripture a real divine revelation, mingled with local and temporary elements.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rationalists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
