Hypocrisies are lighter or more grave in the measure of the confirmation against God and of the outward rationalizing in favor of God.
This method of refuting the objection drawn from the presence of the supernatural in Luke-Acts has sometimes led to a curious return to the rationalizing method of interpretation which was prevalent one hundred years ago.
It was only by thus insisting upon the daemonic influence which controlled the fate of Helen that the conclusions reached by the rationalizing process of the dramatists could be avoided.
Ennius translated this work into Latin, and the rationalizing method was called Euhemerism.
In fact, it has always preferred them to the abstract notions employed by the rationalizing systems of our own lifeless metaphysics of naught, which, as they are void in themselves, so do they in reality say nothing.
The Arians, with all the otherrationalizing sects of Noetus, Paul of Samosata, Sabellius, and the like.
The terrible fear of falling into mere rationalizing is gradually extending from the so-called natural sciences to psychology, anthropology, politics, and political economy.
The mediaeval thinker, however freely he might exercise his powers of logical analysis in rationalizing the Christian Epic, never permitted himself to question its general anthropocentric and mystical view of the world.
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
John Dewey deduces metaphysics from man's original reverie and then shows how in time it became a solemn form of rationalizing current habits and standards.
The Committee value, also, the story about animals: universal interest in puzzles, in the science of ratiocination, is not more pronounced than the interest in rationalizing the brute.
This exaggeration of the divine element led to the hypothesis of a multiform divine sense in Scripture, and, in assigning the spiritual meaning, a rationalizing spirit led the way.
Rationalizing and believing, when the Bible is in question, are mutually exclusive.
And look at the consequences--indescribably terrible--of rationalizing about God's Word instead of believing it!
The effect of reasoning on faith is constructive, while that of rationalizing is destructive.
Rationalizing and doubting are first cousins when the Word of God is involved.
This is why reasoning is never out of harmony with faith, while rationalizing always is.
It is made in the interest of our rationalizing intellect solely.
As compared with all these rationalizing pictures, the pluralistic empiricism which I profess offers but a sorry appearance.
Inefficiency of the Absolute as a rationalizing remedy, 71.
It is only in so far as things have been transferred from the mores into laws and positive institutions that there is discussion about them or rationalizing upon them.
What I am trying to get now is exactly to the best of your powers of recall, what was said on that occasion by her without your rationalizing from facts you recall as to what she might have said; do you understand?
You are rationalizing from the fact that you know now that he applied for a passport?
Excuse me, sir; when you testified a moment ago that she said she usually prepared breakfast for him, were you then rationalizing from the circumstance you have just stated, or do you recall that she said that?
You are not rationalizingor speculating from things you have read in works published with respect to life in Russia?
You have completed your rationalizing statement in that connection?
He is content to explain it like any rationalizing professor.
He begins, in a manner fitted to make old Homer smile, with a rationalizing account of the girdle of Venus,--the girdle which Venus lends to Juno when the latter wishes to excite the amorous desire of Jove.
What complicates the danger and difficulty of such a position, with its confusion of natural and human values, and its rationalizing and secularizing of theistic thinking, is that it has its measure of reality.
But the existence of rationalizing heresy is attested by the burning of two men, Bartholomew Legate and Edward Wightman, for avowing Unitarian views, in 1612.
Frederick, though reputed a Voltairean freethinker par excellence, may be claimed for Germany as partly a product of the rationalizing philosophy of Wolff.
Among the less heterodox but still rationalizing clergy of the period were J.
But science, like theology, had its schisms, and the rationalizingcamp had its own strifes.
The patient art of rationalizing the various sides of life, the observational as well as the moral, without confusing them, is an art apparently seldom given to the haste and pugnacity of philosophers.
The reverse has now occurred and the spirit of life, innocent of any rationalizing discipline and deprived of an authoritative and adequate method of expression, has relapsed into miscellaneous and shallow exuberance.
These examples belong to the class of rationalizing derivations with which students of philosophy are familiar.
It was not merely the first, as it still remains the only, adequate attempt to expound the leading principles of the whole body of law, but it was distinctly inspired by a rationalizing method.
The result is that the development of their imagination is rarely unhampered and complete; for as soon as their fancy passes the middle level, the rationalizingeducation of parents and teachers is eager to master and control it.
