The Religion of the soul

Anderson, Louis Francis

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Persistent identifier:: 1759778729

Author:: Anderson, Louis Francis

Title:: The Religion of the soul

Scope:: 203 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1922

Place of publication:: Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Publisher of the original:: Published by Society for Religious Education

Identifier (digital):: 1759778729

Signature of the source:: a 2006

Language:: English

Additional Notes:: Erscheinungsjahr des Originals aus Copyright ermittelt

Usage licence:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2021

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Religion

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Title:: VIRTUES THE ETERNAL VOICE OF GOD IN CONSCIENCE AND THE SUBSTANCE OF RELIGION

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Title:: [VIRTUES OF THE MIND]

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VIRTUES OF THE MIND 73 THE VIRTUE oF DIVINE LIGHT What do we understand by the virtue of divine light? By this virtue we understand the will, in the ap- plication of all its mental faculties, to absolute truth, Absolute truth is a Divine attribute and might. We do not make truth, nor do we intrinsically pos- sess truth, but we have the power to search for truth and to participate in its holy might. Each human statement is either true or false, and we are fully aware of the consequences of all such statements. [t is not due to our personal authority that a truthful statement is accepted, but to the objective superspiritual might of truth, presented by reasoning, according to conscience. Reasoning according to conscience is always seri- ous, because it is intrinsically connected with the superspiritual might and Voice of God. He who does not want thus to reason, is a trifler, incapable of serious reasoning. Reasoning is dependent from the soul’s will to attain truth by means of its in- tellectual faculties. The profundity and elevation as well as the shal- lowness and sophistry of personal reasoning depend wholly on the attitude which the soul maintains

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