Sermons of Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology
Sermons of Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology

Author: Theodore Parker

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-04-29

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 3382319888

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Sermons of Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology
Sermons of Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology

Author: Theodore Parker

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9781230322834

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... the Hebrew prophets atheists, for they denied all the God that Gentile knew. Paul, in the New Testament, more of a theist than the Greeks and Asiatics about him, with a larger religious development than they dreamed of, said, --" an Idol is nothing." That is, there is no divine being which corresponds exactly to the qualities ascribed to any material idol. Their idea of God, said Paul, lacked actuality; it was a personal or national whimsey; not a perfect subjective representation of the objective fact of the universe; but only a mistaken notion of that fact. If a man has outgrown the Hebrew, or common Christian idea of God, he may say what Paul said of the Idol, --" It is nothing." He will not be an atheist, but a theist all the more.. The superior conception of God always nullifies the inferior conception. Thus as the world grows in its development, it necessarily outgrows its ancient ideas of God, which were only temporary and_provisional. As it goes forward, the ancient deities are looked on first as devils; next as a mere mistaken notion which some men had formed about God. For example, a hundred years ago it was the custom of the learned men of the Christian church to speak of the Heathen deities, --Jupiter, Apollo, Venus, and the rest, --as Devils. They did not deny the actual existence of those beings, only affirmed them to be not Gods but devils or "fallen angels;" at any rate, evil beings. Some of the heretics among the early Christians said the same of the Hebrew Jehovah, that he was not the true God, but only a Devil who misled the Jews. Now-a-days well educated men who still use the terms, say that Jupiter, Apollo, Venus, and the others, were only mistaken notions which men formed of God. They deny the actuality of the idea;...

Theism, Atheism and the Popular Theology
Theism, Atheism and the Popular Theology

Author: Theodore Parker

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-04

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 9781330002513

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Excerpt from Theism, Atheism and the Popular Theology Theodore Parker once said: "The religion I preach will be the religion of enlightened men for the next thousand years." The central principle of this "Absolute Religion," as he termed it, was a lofty and fervent Theism. To Parker the human faculties were fully adequate to find such spiritual truth and guidance as they might need. The knowledge thus imparted was "intuitive" in the sense that God, Duty and Immortality are perceived at first hand, and not mediated by sense-perceptions, individual and racial experiences or external revelations. Belief in God, as absolute wisdom, goodness and love enthroned in the universe, he held to be independent of external demonstration. Revealed in feeling, tempered by reason and controlled by conscience, it is the central nerve of personal and social religion. From it flows all power, pity, peace. In proportion as this inward witness is rejected, and recourse had to external authority, symbolic rites, artificial substitutes or historic mediators the religious life becomes unreal and ineffective. It does not abide in the light of God's own countenance but gropes in the shadows cast by some great soul who knew God at first-hand, rejoiced in His presence, received His inspirations, and did not need to seek Him through physical contact in the consecrated wafer, or the testimony of a written Scripture, or to adore Him in the eidolon of a human Saviour. Theodore Parker was the prophet of this pure Theism, this absolute religion of humanity possible to all kinds and conditions of men, and good for all times. 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.

Sermons of Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology (Classic Reprint)
Sermons of Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology (Classic Reprint)

Author: Theodore Parker

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780267002825

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Excerpt from Sermons of Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology Tm: present volume forms part of a long series of Sermons, but has a certain completeness in itself, and is, perhaps, intelligible without reference to what preceded or followed. Almost the whole of the volume is printed from the notes of Mr. Leighton, an accomplished stenographer; only the three latter sermons were written out by myself. I have often been asked to repeat this portion of the series, but prefer to lay it before a larger public than a merely. 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.

Theism, Atheism and the Popular Theology (Classic Reprint)
Theism, Atheism and the Popular Theology (Classic Reprint)

Author: Theodore Parker

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9781528033831

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Excerpt from Theism, Atheism and the Popular Theology It is this normal and universal religion of mankind which the discourses collected in the present volume are intended to set forth and sustain. It is possible that the philosophical exposition which underlies them may not harmonize in all points with the present de velopment of speculative thought. The Transcen dental system, of which Parker was an ardent expo nent, has undergone since his day much modification, even at the hands of its friends. 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.