Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lecture. History of Ideas of a Future Life. I., Origins of the Belief. Professor J. Estlin Carpenter. Divinity Chapel...
...Origins of the Belief...
Lecture. History of Ideas of a Future Life. I., Origins of the Belief. Professor J. Estlin Carpenter. Divinity Chapel...
...death, the great change to something beyond. Wordsworth defines progress as a movement of the race toward an unattainable perfection. In progress there is always a tendency to reaction. Conversion is a reaction, a putting away of old associations. The progress in science, which seemed to question some religious beliefs, brought about a reaction in the belief in one absolutely true religion...
...theory seems to kill progress, but it is the theory held by many great reformers, such as Plato and in our later times Theodore Parker. Religion grows by modifying and drawing together contradictions. The doctrine of eternal punishment was formerly preached most vehemently, and a sect arose who contradicted belief flatly. The two doctrines have been modified and many believe there is truth in both. Every religious belief of the last century or so has had a back-ground of reaction...