General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: Benziger brothers Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Catholic Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Christianity / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 2. The subject-matter of revelation comprises also the manner in which God wishes to be known, honored, and worshipped. In this consists religion in its objective sense. Now, it certainly dspends upon God to determine how He is to be honored. Even the mighty of this earth prescribe the mariner in which they would be served by their dependents. 3. Though the supreme object of revelation is the glory of God, yet its proximate end is the happiness of man. Now, as God is free to determine the manner in which He wisliec to be honored, so He is likewise free to predestine man for a supernatural end, and to make its attainment dependent on certain conditions. And as it is the duty of man to honor God in the manner determined by Him, so is it his duty nlso to endeavor to attain that end, and to fulfil those conditions put by God for its attainment. For the very reason that God has made man's sole end a supernatural one, man is not free to reject a supernatural revelation. It is only by firm faith in revelation that he is enabled to gain his end, and, consequently, he cannot dispense with its light. If there is such a thing as revelation, deism, which pretends to be satisfied with a natural religion based upon a natural knowledge of God, stands condemned; as also indifferentism, which holds the form of religion to be a matter of indifference, and every religion to be equally good. 9. The knowledge of divine r...
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
