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Professor Brightman's Theory of a Limited God. A Criticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2011

Andrew Banning
Affiliation:
Harvard University

Extract

That the success of the formulation of religious ideas depends so largely on the achievement of a careful and often delicate balance between contrasting attitudes or ideas, is quite evident from the history of doctrine. And it is no hazard to claim that religion itself, more so than any other realm of mind, maintains itself by virtue of its ability to harmonise and balance significant contrasts. Paradoxes in themselves are only academic devices; the religious spirit must seek to attain cordial relations between the opposite poles.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1934

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References

1 Abingdon Press, 1930.

2 Abingdon Press, 1931.

3 Contemporary American Theology, ed V. Ferm, I 53 ff.

4 The Finding of God, 176.

5 The Given and its Critics, Religion and Life, I 1, 1932, 135.

6 The Finding of God, 177.

7 Ib. 153.

8 Ib. 175.

9 Ib. 154.

10 Ib. 175.

11 Ib. 173.

12 Ib. 175.

13 The Problem of God, 113.

14 The Finding of God, 187.

15 The Problem of God, 186.

16 Ib. 166.

17 The Finding of God, 92.

18 Ib. 177.

19 F. R. Tennant, Philosophical Theology, II 123.

20 Religious Values, 54.

21 Ib. 49.

22 Ib. 16.

23 Ib. 60.

24 Ib. 65.

25 Ib. 63.

26 Ib. 57–58.

27 Philosophy of Ideals, 55 et passim.

28 Religious Values, 73.

29 The Problem of God, 165.

30 The Finding of God, 110.

31 Religious Values, 20.

32 The Finding of God, 141.

33 Ib. 147.

34 Ib.

35 Ib. 146.

36 Religious Values, 76.

37 Ib. 78.

38 The Finding of God, 187.

39 Ib. 183.

40 The Problem of God, 124.

41 Ib. 113.

42 The Finding of God, 23.

43 The Problem of God, 186.

44 The Finding of God, 131.