Philosophy of Theism: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the ...
Philosophy of Theism: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the ...
Fraser, Alexander Campbell, 1819-1914
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Can the supposition of the final unconsciousness of conscious persons after the death of their bodies be reconciled with theistic trust and hope in that moral reasonableness of the universe, which I have already urged as at once the tacit assumption in all human experience and the last word of true philosophy? If positive answers to these questions seem presumptuous, at the point of view which the human philosopher has to occupy — so remote intellec- tually from the infinite or divine centre of... intelligence, — does not theistic faith at least imply that absolute trust and hope in the infinite love of God is the eter- nal and only reasonable principle according to which man can die; and that to live and die in this moral trust and hope may be ethically better for the persons who rest in it than intellectual demonstration, which would supersede the education of moral faith regarding that to which the sensuous imagination is inadequate ? To those whose lives are habitually directed in theistic trust towards fulfilment of the divine will, or the realisa- tion of their true spiritual ideal, physical death cannot Digitized by VjOOQ IC ^■Vi 264 PHILOSOPHY OF THEISM.
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