Allen, Alexander V. G. (Alexander Viets Griswold), 1841-1908
The book Life And Letters of Phillips Brooks was written by author Allen, Alexander V. G. (Alexander Viets Griswold), 1841-1908 Here you can read free online of Life And Letters of Phillips Brooks book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Life And Letters of Phillips Brooks a good or bad book?
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He appears as reviewing his experience, religions and inteUeo- tual, in the light of a more satisfactory philosophy. He en- ters in his journal a series of connected statements regaid- ing his religions beliefs, prefacing it with the words: ^I want to try to draw out in order and connection those per- sonal convictions about religious truth which have slowlf and separately taken shape in my mind." The papar was not exhaustive, and as these words quoted indicate, it wa^ the working of his indivi...dual experience which he was seeking to trace. Upon this point something remains to be said in another chapter. It is interesting also to note how bis mind assumes a devotional tone in dealing with tfaeolqgioal pro* blems. To this beautiful and impressive paper, the reader will now turn : ■— 1. OOD. Man does not seem to reach the idea of God by any conseioos process. All conscious processes appear to be either the subse- qaent analysis el what 1ms gone on ahready unconsciously, or else the support which study and thought bring to a conviction whidi already exists on other grounds ; very much as the filial inqmlse or instinct finds itself supported hy many considerations of hnman nature and society, but was not viade by any of them.^ If we look into this first idea of God, which seems self -bom, a direct impulse of the heart of man, its origin, I think, will be found to lie in a transference by man to the universe of that one sole primal cause of whieh he has any knowledge, which is will* This is a very simple transference and is made almost uncon- sciously.
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