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General History of the Christian Religion and Church (Volume 8)

General History of the Christian Religion and Church (Volume 8)

Morrison, Alexander James William
Neander, August

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ISBN10: 1459097750
ISBN13: 9781459097759
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.42 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tive life of faith had developed itself in the study of the sacred writings. Since that which pertains to the church, and that which pertains to Christianity, were in his mind intimately fused together from the first; since with this spiritual bent he read and lived himself into the sacred Scriptures; he involuntarily moulded everything h derived from them into the Catholic form. To profoundness of feeling and thought he united acuteness of understanding; yet, in him, profound thought predominated above acuteness, and the religious interest was everywhere the ruling one. Accordingly, it might easily come about that into the formal argument, which, on independent examination, might fail to satisfy the demands of the logician, he would unconsciously introduce matter derived from the depths of his religious consciousness, and so fancy that he had demonstrated what he was certain of prior to all proof, and what otherwise could not by such demonstration become matter of conviction. Often must we distinguish, in his case, between the profound ideas lying at the bottom, and the faulty syllogistic form of their setting forth. Thus, in Anselm, we see the different main directions of the spirit that actuated his times harmoniously combined; but the spiritual elements that were blended together in him became separated in the progress of the spiritual life of this period, and proceeded to antagonisms, which belong amongst the most significant appearances of the twelfth century. Controversies arose which were at first necessary, in order to conduct the unfolding process of theology to its decision. In particular, the abbot Bernard of Clairvaux, and Abelard, in the beginning of the twelfth century, appear to us as the representatives of the two main theological directions that started forth...

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