The Basis of Authority in Religion

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Excerpt from The Basis of Authority in Religion: B. D. ThesisAfter much reading and thought on the basis of the authority in religion, I have con cluded that Professor Eucken, in his book:christ ianity and the New Idealism, struck the key note, when he said? To think that the discovery of a religious basis is a.simpla and easy.matter, be tokens but a poor and weak conception of religion. That there remains beyond our Sphere some dim.im~ mensity of Being, some unfathomable depth beyond all that our plumet can reach, is indeed scarcely Open to dispute. But to admit this is not yet to enter into relationship with this unfathomed deep, and the admission, therefore, fails to give us a religion. It is essential to religion that the higher power in our midst should be not merely an influence, but a living Presence, and that our relationship to this Presence should not be just any sort of relation, but one in which our whole nature is involved. How we are to reach certainty in this matter is not so obvious.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.