You will have to get something more substantial than the far-off god of an unchristian Theism if you mean to sway the world and to satisfy men's hearts.
For most people, theism is the easiest solution of the universe.
So much for the Theism of Europe's chief religious philosopher.
Apollo finally vindicates Mr. Browning's optimistic theism by claiming the gifts of Bacchus, youngest of the gods, for the beneficent purpose and anterior wisdom of Zeus.
The scientific idea of evolution is here distinctly foreshadowed: though it begins and ends, in Mr. Browning's mind, in the large Theism which was and is the basis of his religious belief.
He cannot think of it in the mass; and here again his theism asserts itself, though in a less obvious manner.
This is the highest point reached by the purest Theism of the Hebrew people.
It is Theism of the loftiest kind, and the grounds on which it is based are as philosophical as they are poetically expressed.
They all look upon theories of evolution either as in the way of being established or as not unlikely to prevail, and they confidently expect to lose thereby no solid ground for theism or religion.
Either way he might meet a procrustean fate; and, although a saving amount of theism might remain, he would not be sound or comfortable.
Defn: Combining theism and philosophy, or pertaining to the combination of theism and philosophy.
It is theism as opposed to error, rather than natural religion as opposed to revealed: whereas deism always implies a position antagonistic to revealed religion.
Christianity was replaced by materialism, theism by atheism, ethics by selfishness.
Her views originally were the same as those of her brother, a deceased unitarian minister, author of a work on Theism (1852), in which the use of miracles as an evidence was depreciated.
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; theism means the affirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.
In this quotation James is retracting the statement made in the University of California Address that without the future there is no difference between theism and materialism.
Take away from our notion of God the human element, and the theism instantly vanishes; it ceases to be a notion of God.
The main point is this, that in the earliest phases of theism each operation of Nature was supposed to have some quasi-human personality behind it.
I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and causation than other parts.
Illustration] V Religions Second Postulate: the undying Human Soul That supremely interesting aspect of theism belongs to it as part and parcel of the general belief in an Unseen World, in which human beings have an interest.
To these philosophers Voltaire's unshaken theism seemed a mere bit of eccentric conservatism.
Take away from our symbolic conception of God the human element, and that aspect of theism which has from the outset chiefly interested mankind is gone.
It is the teaching of Jesus that Theism gladly makes its own, purifying it from the inconsistencies which mar its perfection.
In all its ages, therefore, Christian theismhas meant one thing to one person, and another thing to another.
The higher or Athanasian theism knows nothing of secondary causes in a world where every event flows directly from the eternal First Cause.
But in his recent essay on "Retrogressive Religion" he uses expressions which imply a doctrine of theism essentially similar to that here maintained.
We are now prepared to see that the theological objection urged against the Newtonian and Darwinian theories has its roots in that imperfect kind of theism which Augustine did so much to fasten upon the western world.
The knell of anthropomorphic or Augustinian theismhas already sounded.
The craving for a final cause is so deeply rooted in human nature that no doctrine of theism which fails to satisfy it can seem other than lame and ineffective.
I must not be understood as ignoring the fact that this lower species of theism has been entertained by some of the loftiest minds of our race, both in ancient and in modern times.
We shall presently see that in its fundamental features the theism of Jesus and Paul was so true that it must endure as long as man endures.
The most highly refined and scientific form of anthropomorphic theism is that which we are accustomed to associate with Paley and the authors of the Bridgewater treatises.
It is remarkable, that the principles of religion have a kind of flux and reflux in the human mind, and that men have a natural tendency to rise from idolatry to Theism, and to sink again from Theism into idolatry.
Perhaps the most impressive declaration of this necessary connexion between Knowledge and Theism stands at the end of that great work, Christoph Sigwart's Logik.
The Arhats call themselves Atheists, and they are justified in doing so if theism inculcates the existence of a conscious God governing the universe by his will-power.
Atheism and theism are words of doubtful import, and until their meaning is definitely ascertained it would be better not to use them in connection with any system of philosophy.
Fox accounted, in 1841, for my disbelief in Theism by conjecturing the existence of some mental deficiency.
Francis William Newman was, at least till the present year, unaware that his arguments for Theism were challenged by his own brother under the signature of "A Recluse.
The theism which is founded on evolution may serenely acknowledge the discords and failures which would be fatal to the theism of the Bridgewater era.
Christian Theism declares that belief alone can save man, and yet recognizes the fact that man's belief results from teaching, by establishing missionary societies to spread the faith.
Yet the advocates for Theism venture to upbraid those who argue against such a faith.
Part of his argument involves of the use of the very a posteriori reasoning just considered, regarded by himself as utterly worthless for the demonstration of the existence of a being with such attributes as orthodoxTheism tries to assert.
Apart from orthodoxy, Theismis a boneless skeleton; the various mythologies give it alike flesh and bone, otherwise coherence it hath none.
Theism declares that God dispenses health and inflicts disease, and sickness and illness are regarded by the Theist as visitations from an angered Deity, to be borne with meekness and content.
Theism is worse than illogical; its teachings are not only without utility; but of itself it has nothing to teach.
If you leave the question of creation and deal with the government of the universe, the difficulties of Theism are by no means lessened.
The bearing of this doctrine of Idealism upon Theism and Theology will be instantly apparent to the reader.
The various attempts which have been made to trace the elevated theism and morality of Socrates and Plato to Jewish sources have signally failed.
He thinks, however, that "true theism is not a dead religion that forgets precisely the fundamental attributes of God.
Probing still deeper, let us not be afraid to ask ourselves whether the surgery which this thesis implies does not involve the daring of a break with theism as only a developed form of primitive animism?
The truth is, rather, that mankind is outgrowing theism in a gentle and steady way until it ceases to have any clear meaning.
What I wanted you to understand is that, in my judgment, there can be no deliverance for the world from the troubles by which it is overwhelmed so long as theism holds the religious field and capitalism the political field.
