History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

as disproof of objections,) comes under the third, inasmuch as it offers a series of principles obtained by generalization from the natural and moral world, which furnish an ant...

period which produced the various books of Loci Communes Theologici. The only exception to this scholastic spirit was Calixt. and the school of Helmstadt, which in tone was like...

reference to the former question. Also Dr. W. Klose examined the original MS. in the Hamburg library, and published an account of it, with considerable extracts, in several of t...

371 There is a curious record in his journal (_Autobiography_, p. 171-3) of an earnest prayer for guidance on the subject of the publication of his first book _De Veritate_, whi...

954 The steps through which he considers that the idea of God is developed into a conception are, Fetishism, Polytheism, and Monotheism; Dualism and Pantheism being errors which...

275 Cousin thinks him a sceptic. So also Sir J. Stephens, ii. 170. Taillandier (_Rev. des Deux Mondes_ quoted above) takes the view given in the text, that his character was com...

204 On the school of Alexandria see H. E. F. Guericke _Schola quæ Alex. floruit_, 1825 (p. 51-81); Matter’s _Essai sur l’école d’Alexandrie_, 1840; Neander’s _Kirchengesch._ II....