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
This is the faith of Augustine: “O God, thou hast made us for
thyself, and our heart is restless till it find rest in thee.... I
could not be, O my God, could not be at all, wert thou not in me;
rather, were not I in thee, of whom are all things, by whom are
all things, in whom are all things.” And Anselm, in his
Proslogion, says of the divine nature: “It is the essence of the
being, the principle of the existence, of all things.... Without
parts, without differences, without accidents, without changes, it
might be said in a certain sense alone to exist, for in respect to
it the other things which appear to be have no existence. The
unchangeable Spirit is all that is, and it is this without limit,
simply, interminably. It is the perfect and absolute Existence.
The rest has come from non-entity, and thither returns if not
supported by God. It does not exist by itself. In this sense the
Creator alone exists; created things do not.”
1. While Ethical Monism embraces the one element of truth contained in
Pantheism—the truth that God is in all things and that all things are in
God—it regards this scientific unity as entirely consistent with the facts
of ethics—man’s freedom, responsibility, sin, and guilt; in other words,
Metaphysical Monism, or the doctrine of one substance, ground, or
principle of being, is qualified by Psychological Dualism, or the doctrine
that the soul is personally distinct from matter on the one hand, and from
God on the other.
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