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CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY IN ENGLAND
CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY IN ENGLAND
Second Edition, 2 vols. 8vo, £1, 8s. The pleasure with which Principal Tulloch explores this comparatively unknown field communicates itself to his readers, and the academic groves of Oxford and Cambridge are invested with the freshness of a new glory. It is rich in pregnant and suggestive thought. Here we must take our respectful leave of this large-minded, lively, and thoughtful work, which deserves to the full the acceptance it cannot fail to receive. Every thoughtful and liberal Englishman w
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THE WITNESS OF REASON AND NATURE TO AN ALL-WISE AND BENEFICENT CREATOR.
THE WITNESS OF REASON AND NATURE TO AN ALL-WISE AND BENEFICENT CREATOR.
Octavo, 10s. 6d. Dr Tulloch's Essay, in its masterly statement of the real nature and difficulties of the subject, its logical exactness in distinguishing the illustrative from the suggestive, its lucid arrangement of the argument, its simplicity of expression, is quite unequalled by any work we have seen on the subject....
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2 Cor. xi. 3.—"The simplicity that is in Christ."
2 Cor. xi. 3.—"The simplicity that is in Christ."
There is much talk in the present time of the difficulties of religion. And no doubt there is a sense in which religion is always difficult. It is hard to be truly religious—to be humble, good, pure, and just; to be full of faith, hope, and charity, so that our conduct may be seen to be like that of Christ, and our light to shine before men. But when men speak so much nowadays of the difficulties of religion, they chiefly mean intellectual and not practical difficulties. Religion is identified w
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