The Theistic Conception of the World: An Essay in Opposition to Certain Tendencies of Modern ThoughtCocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
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The Theistic Conception of the World: An Essay in Opposition to Certain Tendencies of Modern Thought
Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
Theism
Tyndall on impossibilities in nature, 196;
on the certainty of the facts of religious experience, 296;
admits that the great problem of the age is to find a legitimate
satisfaction for the religious emotions, 300;
prescribes the conditions under which it must be solved, 301;
admits that religion can not be dislodged from the heart of man, 304;
believes in the existence of God, 312;
his attack on the efficacy of prayer from the stand-point
of science, 321-338;
does not deny that God may create energy, 332;
admits the interference of personal volition in nature, 332-334;
grants that the conception of a universal Father who controls the
phenomena of nature is not unscientific, 337;
distinguishes between the force which animates nature and the God
who answers prayer, 338-340.
U.
Unconditioned Will the principle of all reality, efficiency,
and perfection, 34, 41-48.
Unconscious intelligence, doctrine of, 225;
impossibility of forming any conception of, 226, 227;
no difficulties relieved by this hypothesis, 232-235.
Uniformity of Nature, meaning of the term, 193-196, 325-330.
Uniformity of the course of nature not an intuitive
belief, 99, 188-190, 321, 326;
an assumption, 322;
what ground is there for this assumption? 322-324.
Unity, demand of the reason for, 23.
Unity of the Cosmos, 15.
Universal beliefs, authority of, 100, 101.
Universal Father controlling nature a scientific conception, 336, 337.
Universe an effect, 21;
had a commencement in time, and will therefore have an end, 98-121;
not a conservative but a dissipative system, 118-121;
dependent on the Divine conservation every moment, 174-177.
V.
Vito-dynamical theory of the origin of things, 299.
Volition, reality of personal, 334.
W.
Wallace on unconscious intelligence, 226;
regards all force as will-force, 39.
Wesley on Divine conservation of the world, 179.
Whedon, Dr., on causation in the will, 390-391;
on the so-called strength of motives, 396, 397, 399, 400;
on Divine foreknowledge, 404;
on equation of probational advantages, 415.
Whewell, Prof., on law and cause, 200;
on the origin of force, 341.
Will the fountain-head of all force, 38;
so recognised by scientists, 39, 40;
this doctrine the balancing-point of a moral theism, 37.
Will, the freedom of the, 380-387;
direct testimony of consciousness, 381-384;
presupposed by the idea of moral obligation, 384, 385;
and by the sense of obligation, 385, 386.
Will the real essence of the soul, 35, 36;
is more than mere power of energy, 35;
the synthesis of reason and power, 197.
Will, the unconditioned, 34;
the absolute first principle, 25;
the Divine will the source of all the forms of force in the
universe, 237.
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