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The Religious Conception of the World; An Essay in Constructive Philosophy
The Religious Conception of the World An Essay in Constructive Philosophy Author:Arthur Kenyon Rogers General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Religion Theism Philosophy / Religious Religion / Philosophy Religion / Theism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the... more » General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE NATURE OF GOD There is still one problem a religious philosophy needs to meet which has been in sight more than once in the preceding discussion, but with which we have not yet attempted to come to close quarters. There is a certain group of attributes which almost uniformly the religious consciousness, at least in its higher development, has found it natural to assign to the conception of God. God is infinite, eternal, absolute, all-powerful and all-knowing. But while natural, these attributes are clearly going to cause difficulty when we start to inquire in a more definite way about their possibility and their real meaning. It has come, indeed, to be one of the notable characteristics of modern thinking -- its unwillingness to talk very much about the absolute and the infinite. Nevertheless, if we are pretending to anything like a complete philosophy, there are questions present here which cannot be altogether ignored; and the vitality which the ideas possess for religion would suggest that there is back of them some real significance and value. Accordingly we may turn as briefly as we may to the problem which is thus raised, in order to meet thereby, if possible, certain further objections to the theory which has been proposed. 176 There are various difficulties which have been raised by philosophers about the conception of the absolute. Perhaps Mr. Spencer's have in recent times had the most vogue. The burden of Mr. Spencer's objection is roughly this: We think, it is sai...« less