The Seventy's Course in Theology, Fifth Year: Divine Immanence and the Holy Ghost — John Shaqi
The Seventy's Course in Theology, Fifth Year: Divine Immanence and the Holy GhostRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Seventy's Course in Theology, Fifth Year: Divine Immanence and the Holy Ghost
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
"In this inevitable struggle [between vanishing old ideas and incoming
new ones] there has always been more or less pain, and hence free
thought has not usually been popular. It has come to our life-feast
as a guest unbidden and unwelcome; but it has come to stay with us,
and already proves more genial than was expected. Deadening, cramping
finality has lost its" charm for him who has tasted of the ripe fruit
of the tree of knowledge. In this broad universe of God's wisdom and
love, not leashes to restrain us are needed, but wings to sustain
our flight. Let bold but reverent thought go on and probe creation's
mysteries, till faith and knowledge "make one music as before, but
vaster."
IX. THE RIGHT TO SEEK KNOWLEDGE ASIDE FROM REVEALED KNOWLEDGE.
One other thing: Such subjects as are treated in this Year Book
necessarily rest on what God has revealed--that is, for the data, the
facts involved; but that does not necessarily hold as to illustration
and argument for development of the truth and making clear the revealed
things of God. Here one may do as it is said Clement of Alexandrea did
in urging men to strive for a knowledge of Christian truth, rather than
a mere belief of it; "such instruction was to come primarily from the
'Divine Word'; but everything in the range of human learning was to be
welcomed as co-operating with him. For Clement gratefully acknowledged
truth wherever found, whether among heathens or heretics." It should be
observed, however, "that while constantly confirming his propositions
from his Greek writers, he ever turns for a final appeal to the
scriptures"--that, too, must be our course.
So much by way of presenting the spirit in which I have pursued my own
studies upon the high themes of these Seventy's Year Books, and this
present one in particular.
X. JUSTIFICATION FOR USING DOUBLE TITLE.
The subject of Divine Immanence and the Holy Ghost should be considered
together because there are such relations and apparent contrasts
subsisting between them--such a likeness and such apparent differences,
that they may properly be understood only when so considered--that is,
conjointly.
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