Theology is not yet entirely banished; the debris of the decayed beliefs still cumber our path and impede our progress.
Now I allege that nearly all the mistakes of theology have arisen from the ignorance of man in regard to Nature and her mode of operation.
The modern untutored native has a not dissimilar undeveloped and childlike attitude towards the divine, a naive theology and a simple cultus.
He was originally intended for his father's profession, and studied at Bonn and Berlin, but his real interests lay not in theology but in classical and romance philology.
Four years later he received the degree of doctor of theology at Avignon, and in 1617 he took holy orders.
By such means, indeed, neither a fuller theology nor God's influence on the world was to be obtained.
Let us now examine into the theology of India, as reported by Megasthenes, about B.
He writes: "The Theology of Philo is in great measure founded on his peculiar combination of the Jewish, the Platonic, and the Neo-Platonic conception of God.
Others maintain, quite as strongly, that education with theology is in the same predicament.
But this is certain, that those who hold the first opinion can by no means agree what theology should be taught; and that those who maintain the second are in a small minority.
As we have already shown, it had been the custom of the Church from the earliest date to establish schools of theology in connection with the more important centres in which the work of the Church was carried on.
It is highly probable that many of the clerks who were attracted to a school of theology for the purpose of continuing their studies would not have studied Latin to the extent necessary to profit by the course given.
We must emphasise that these schools of theology existed before canon law definitely refers to them.
We know there was a school of theology at York because Thomas, who became Archbishop of York in 1108, and who had previously held the position of Provost of the Collegiate Church, in Beverley, was educated there.
Similarly, we know that a school of theology existed in Lincoln because the vicar of a Lincolnshire parish was directed to attend the school there to learn theology for a period of two years.
By the "best sciences," Bacon meant "the grammar of the foreign tongues, from which all theology comes.
This organisation consisted of:-- (a) The establishment of Schools of Theology in connection with Cathedral Churches.
His duty was that he was to teach theology either by himself or by a suitable substitute[210] to all students who cared to present themselves.
The custom continues, even to the present day, because the degrees in Arts and Theology in our oldest universities are in reality merely licences issued by the Chancellor of the University to teach those subjects.
Though theology is the queen of the sciences, yet philosophy is allowed to dominate.
We also know, incidentally, that there existed a school oftheology in connection with St. Paul's Cathedral because it is referred to in a deed which is dated about 1125.
The monastic schools taught theology mainly, but instruction was also given in speaking, reading and writing Latin, in copying manuscripts, in painting and architecture, and in elementary notions of astronomy and mathematics.
The custom of establishing schools of theology in connection with cathedral churches was common to all those countries in which the Church had made progress.
A person who denies any part of the system of theology received and taught by the denomination is not a member of the church.
The identity of the Marquis of Puddox, the Junior Egyptologist, and the Assistant Professor of Comparative Theology had never been discovered.
And if theology pretended to be the science of religion, surely it must submit to the test of the new science!
What is the result of proclaiming Christianity in terms of an ancient science and theology which awaken no quickening response in the minds and hearts of to-day?
Science, according to a glib commonplace of popular writers, agrees with theology in prescribing humility.
Nor need we dwell upon the fact, that where theology is really vigorous it produces such nightmares by an inevitable law; inasmuch as the next world can be nothing but the intensified reflection of this.
If it is the inevitable, then theology falls in with free reason.
This world, we are told, is not all; there is a beyond and a hereafter; we may hope for an eternal life under conditions utterly inconceivable, though popular theology has made a good many attempts to conceive them.
Theology deifies the force of circumstances, when our life should be a victory over circumstances, and encourages us to repine over misfortunes, where all repining is useless.
Theology can give no additional guaranty for progress, for a state of things once compatible may, for any thing we can say, always remain compatible with infinite wisdom and goodness.
In any case, we are brought to a stand: and the only moral which either science or theology can give is that we should make the best of our position.
Theology aims at stimulating the same instincts, but provides them with an object in some shifting cloud-land of the imagination instead of the definite terra firma of this tangible earth.
What is it that Christian theology can now do for us; and in what way does it differ from the teaching of free thought?
The figments of theology are a consecration of our delusive dreams; the teaching of the new faith should be the utilization of every emotion to the bettering of the world of the future.
Theology is as impotent in presence of it as science.
As a matter of historical fact, theology only suggested the dogma of man's utter vileness, and all genuine theologians are marked by their readiness to believe in deterioration instead of progress.
Theology of the old stamp, so far from encouraging us to love nature, teaches us that it is under a curse.
Theology trying to lay down an absolute law sometimes encourages the extremes of asceticism, sometimes it inclines to antinomianism; and sometimes sanctions the condonation of sin in consideration of acts of humiliation.
Theology crushes us into nothingness by placing us in the presence of the infinite God; and then compensates by making us divine ourselves.
Luther would have gone to work with less heart, could he have foreseen the Thirty Years' War, and in the distance the theology of Tubingen.
In view of the rumors of inquisitorial action, there was risk in praising it, yet nearly all those prominent in Spanish theology bore testimony in its favor.
If they do not admit their errors they are to be condemned to death; this is the best theology that a Christian can learn and it was not more necessary in the time of Moses than it is at present.
So, in 1483, when Sixtus, under the influence of Cardinal Borgia, desired to get rid of Inquisitor Gualbes, he asked Ferdinand to replace him with some master of theology who had the fear of God and was eminent for his virtues.
Carranza had, moreover, a peculiarly dangerous enemy in a brother Dominican, Melchor Cano, perhaps the leading Spanish theologian of the time when Spanish theology was beginning to dominate the Church.
In like manner, he would not view with favour some of the dogmatic theology that flourished amongst his friends.
In 1828 he was called to the chair of theology in Edinburgh University.
His influence upon the ministers of America in modifying theology and remolding the general type of preaching is fairly comparable with that of Robertson.
In theology by altering boundaries we often gain territory.
Paul's religious life is one thing, his theology in which he tries to explain and state it is another thing.
The development of theology or of ritual in some other religion throws light on similar developments in Christianity.
I am not going to enter here into the real doctrine of original sin, or into that probably false version of it which the New Theologywriter calls the doctrine of depravity.
I have just been reading this important compilation, sent to me in the name of a number of men for whom I have a high respect, and called "New Theology and Applied Religion.
I was against the Tory attempt to force upon ordinary Englishmen a Catholic theology in which they do not believe.
Science, law, medicine, and all the ologies but theology are taught here, and the schools are well managed and of a high grade.
He resigned in 1824 to accept a professorship in Nassau Hall; later became professor of theology in Allegheny, in Auburn, and in Union Seminaries.
Mr. Headley early determined to make his father's vocation his own, and after graduating from Union College, in 1839, he took a course in theology at the Auburn Theological Seminary.
With them history is secondary to theologyand made subservient to it.
Theology being no longer in demand, the Protestant clergy, contrary to the teachings of the Bible, and the traditions of the church, now find it popular and profitable to espouse the cause of temperance.
This was simply a hallucination; and upon this hallucination of the diseased mind of Paul the whole system of Christian theology is based.
Books teaching the new theology superseded those which taught the old; and thus the earlier writings became obsolete.
All the remnants of theology in which I had been born and bred, all the impressions that Swedenborg had made upon me, now ceased to influence me or to occupy my thoughts.
That a high dignitary of the Church and a favorite of Queen Victoria should venture to say this to the students of John Knox's University is most suggestive as showing how even theology improves with the years.
As I more and more wandered from man-made theology these fond hopes weakened, but my aunt's interest in and affection for her first nephew, whom she had dandled on her knee in Scotland, never waned.
Scottish medicine was then as stern as Scottish theology (both are now much softened), and I was bled.
A sermon of the strongest kind upon predestination which Miller heard there brought the subject of theology upon us and it would not down.
Not only had I got rid oftheology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
He has softened by age, and even his outbursts against theology as antagonistic to true religion are in his fine old age much less alarming.
The harmony of the Greek language so invited men to poetry, a maxim turned into verse was so easily engraved on the memory that the laws, oracles, morals, and theology were all composed in verse.
How few of our systems of theology contain a manful vindication of truths so important!
It is well known that the philosophy of antiquity, almost without exception, regarded matter as eternal; and in modern times, metaphysicaltheology has done its utmost to refute the supposed dangerous dogma.
And natural theology shows that, if death is a law of organic nature, it must have entered into the plan of the universe in the divine mind, and was not the result of any change of organic nature subsequent to the fall of man.
The arguments by which materialism is defended are among the most subtle in the whole range of theology and natural science; and without a knowledge of the latter they can neither be appreciated nor refuted.
But is natural theology in fact destitute of all satisfactory proof that the matter of the universe had a beginning?
In the truly scientific system of theologyby the venerable Dr.
But this is rather the incidental than the direct result of scientific investigations, and belongs rather to natural theology than to natural science.
For how lame and halting a defence of the Scripture doctrine of special providence and prayer has that theology been able to make!
Theology labors to show that this conflict is apparent rather than real, to admit it would seem to impugn the justice of the Deity.
In all these different branches of theology the young Spinoza made rapid progress and soon gained astonishing proficiency.
We agree in believing that theologyis flourishing at the expense of religion.
Ever since the appearance of Geiger's "Scientific Journal," Jewish philology and Jewish theology have been inseparably connected.
A theology in the sense of an actual science of God is impossible.
Hume in Rousseau of Reimarus in Lessing Kant's relation to See also Faith, Faith and Reason, Religion, Theology Delboeuf Delff, H.
The three higher faculties correspond to the three potencies in the absolute: Natural Science and Medicine to the real or finite; History and Law to the ideal or infinite; Theology to the eternal or the copula.
This change in the spirit of thought is accompanied by a corresponding change in the object of thought: theology must yield its supremacy to the knowledge of nature.
Philosophy is the basis of theology, theology the criterion and complement of philosophy.
Fichte attended school in Meissen and in Pforta, and was a student of theology at the universities of Jena and Leipsic.
In particular he was entertained by the clergy, and talked theology with them after dinner.
