The Religious Sentiments of the Human Mind (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Thompson, Daniel Greenleaf

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ISBN 10: 1330482433 ISBN 13: 9781330482438

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Religious Sentiments of the Human Mind

When, for instance, we speak Of the christian religion we have in mind a social organisation, comprising a community of organised bodies united by certain enunciated principles and by certain declared aims. But this society is not the christian religion, but rather a development of it. The religion makes the society. If there were no religion there would be no church. Hence we cannot say that the christian church is the christian religion.

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Excerpt from The Religious Sentiments of the Human Mind

A person of ordinary intelligence would probably resent the imputation that he does not know the meaning of the term Religion; but, should he seriously ask himself the question placed at the head this chapter, he would be surprised to find how much difficulty an act and adequate answer involves. He will first think of the various systems and organisations really or nominally of a religious character, and perhaps content himself with an enumeration or an ample. If more closely pressed he may find himself greatly at a loss, and indeed may be forced to take refuge in that well-known characterisation of the Holy Ghost by an English prelate as 'a sort a something.' For, while there will be no lack of declarations, heterogeneous and contradictory as they may be, as to what a religious man or woman should believe or do, he will find much less instruction as to what religion essentially is, and what he does find will not be of a satisfactory character, since it almost invariably is en in the interest of some system or some organised body. Moreover, in the efforts which his own intelligence may make, a person will be much perplexed from a proneness of his own mind to confuse products of religion, its incidents and accidents, with its ultimate languishing characteristics.

When, for instance, we speak of the christian religion we have in mind a social organisation, comprising a community of organised lies united by certain enunciated principles and by certain declared aims. But this society is not the christian religion, but rather a development of it. The religion makes the society. If there were religion there would be no church. Hence we cannot say that christian church is the christian religion.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330482433
• ISBN 13: 9781330482438
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 214
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