Philosophic Theology

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Excerpt from Philosophic Theology: Or, Ultimate Grounds of All Religious Belief Based in Reason No really thoughtful and earnest spirited man can have avoided, at some time in his life, reflecting with deep interest upon the problems of his destiny and the universe, and forming some notions with regard to religion. The fruit of such meditations I now give to the world, because I believe that they will meet with some sympathy from those who have undergone similar mental processes, and that they may aid some in shaping their meditations into a definite form. All pretence to dogmatize or demonstrate is anxiously disclaimed. It is the spirit of dogmatism in religion, repressing free inquiry, and forcing investigation into fixed and narrow channels, which has, more than almost any thing else, tended to beget and foster infidelity. The theologian too often makes magnanimous invitations to the fullest investigation and inquiry, - but decries and would suppress it the moment that it diverges from his own foregone conclusions. He has received Christianity, or some modification of it, upon grounds satisfactory to himself, and forgetting that they may not prove equally convincing to differently constituted minds, he starts in pious horror from what he considers any rebellion against Divine Authority, without reflecting that that authority itself must be established upon something more than his bare assertion that God has thus spoken, and often too upon a vast deal more than has sufficed to satisfy himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.