Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3)Strong, Augustus Hopkins
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Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3)
Strong, Augustus Hopkins
Baptists -- Doctrines; Theology, Doctrinal
Bowne, Theory of Thought and Knowledge, 60—“As we walk in entire
ignorance of our muscles, so we often think in entire ignorance of
the principles which underlie and determine thinking. But as
anatomy reveals that the apparently simple act of walking involves
a highly complex muscular activity, so analysis reveals that the
apparently simple act of thinking involves a system of mental
principles.” Dewey, Psychology, 238, 244—“Perception, memory,
imagination, conception—each of these is an act of intuition....
Every concrete act of knowledge involves an intuition of God.”
Martineau, Types, 1:459—The attempt to divest experience of either
percepts or intuitions is “like the attempt to peel a bubble in
search for its colors and contents: in tenuem ex oculis evanuit
auram”; Study, 1:199—“Try with all your might to do something
difficult, _e. g._, to shut a door against a furious wind, and you
recognize Self and Nature—causal will, over against external
causality”; 201—“Hence our fellow-feeling with Nature”; 65—“As
Perception gives us Will in the shape of Causality over against us
in the non-ego, so Conscience gives us Will in the shape of
Authority over against us in the non-ego”; Types, 2:5—“In
perception it is self and nature, in morals it is self and God,
that stand face to face in the subjective and objective
antithesis”; Study, 2:2, 3—“In volitional experience we meet with
objective _causality_; in moral experience we meet with objective
_authority_,—both being objects of immediate knowledge, on the
same footing of certainty with the apprehension of the external
material world. I know of no logical advantage which the belief in
finite objects around us can boast over the belief in the infinite
and righteous Cause of all”; 51—“In recognition of God as Cause,
we raise the University; in recognition of God as Authority, we
raise the Church.”
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