Let us then "trace the descent of religious thought, and the practical working of the religious ideas," (p.
Compare the orthodox view of Bishop Westcott, Essays in the History of Religious Thought in the West, 1891, pp.
Within Brahmanism, again, there have been at different times attempts to set up partly naturalistic reforms in religious thought--e.
The whole imaginative literature of Europe, in the generation after the French Revolution, reveals directly or indirectly the transmutation that the eighteenth century had worked in religious thought.
Not till the nineteenth century did Dutch scholars again give a lead to Europe in religious thought.
This was not hopeful; and Leibnitz, with all his power and originality, really wrought little for the direct rationalization of religious thought.
Footnote 187: Evolution and its Relation to Religious Thought, p.
Footnote 190: Evolution and its Relation to Religious Thought, p.
And it will, I also believe, be a help to religious thought by giving clearness of conception and of expression, which may enable many people to face, and conquer, many religious difficulties for themselves.
The Vatican Library, with its masses of historical material, has been thrown open to Protestant and Catholic scholars alike, and this privilege has been freely used by men representing all shades of religious thought.
Thence it comes about that the theorists of animism, when looking for the origins of religious thought, content themselves with a small outlay of energy.
These two theories are, up to the present, the only ones by which the attempt has been made to explain rationally[93] the origins of religious thought.
They are born in religion and of religion; they are a product of religious thought.
But this listlessness in most branches of practical religion must partly be attributed to a cause which gives the history of religious thought in the eighteenth century its principal importance.
Under its influence High and Broad Church were too often not so much rival schools of religious thought, and representatives of different tones of religious feeling, as rival factions.
In this character as a leader ofreligious thought he was deficient in some very essential points.
The story of the phoenix illustrates the influence exercised by the pictorial character of Egyptian writing upon the course of religious thought.
Ra was a word which meant "the sun" in all the dialects of the country, and its very want of theological associations made it the starting-point of a new phase of religious thought.
That the official figures of the gods were thus a compromise between two antagonistic currents of religious thought, appears very clearly when we compare Egypt with Babylonia.
On the one hand, they testify to the continuity of religious thought.
Even in those religious productions of Babylonia which represent the flower of religious thought, we meet with views that reflect a most primitive mode of thought.
In other words, the conception of the triad Anu, Bel, and Ea is again an evidence of the existence of schoolmen and of schools of religious thought in the days of the ancient empire.
He passes in review in a series of dramatic pictures the three most diverse modes of religious thought of the century.
An article by Scholten on Modern Materialism and its Causes, may be found in the Progress of Religious Thought in the Protestant Church of France.
Progress of Religious Thought in the Protestant Church of France, pp.
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