Word: rationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where I part company from the Roman Catholic Church is in the rationalist nature of its official theology; its preaching of the God of Greek metaphysics, the First Cause, impassible, an abstract, not a living God . . . Such a God is not one who can easily be prayed to, and that is why the Roman Catholic laity have turned for their devotions inordinately to creatures-to the Blessed Virgin and the Saints. Similarly, I disagree with the rationalist Scholastic interpretation of the soul and of the nature of man, of the act of faith and the rigid distinction between the natural...
...Spiritual Jesus. The Lord Jesus who told Schweitzer to come to the Ogowe was not the orthodox Christ that he had been taught about in Strasbourg. A determined rationalist, who insists that all religious truth must "stand to reason," Schweitzer came to the conclusion that the Jesus of history was not a God but a man of his time with a limited mind and understanding. Schweitzer's chief point: Jesus, like many Jews of his time, believed that God was momentarily about to end the physical world and inaugurate his Kingdom. In this expectation, reasoned Schweitzer, Christ sent...
...Rationalist Schweitzer the phrase "Reverence for Life" seems "the ethic of Jesus brought to philosophical expression, extended into cosmical form, and conceived of as intellectually necessary...
Prayer-Time Rasp. Essentially an unbending faith, Islam resists modernist intrusions with a stubborn orthodoxy. Liberal, rationalist reformers such as Mohamed Abduh and Iqbal on the one hand, and force-loving Mahdists like Mohamed Ahmed on the other, have failed to capture it. Nearly all Moslems still hold the Koran so infallible that all translations are considered heresies. Says Oxford's Islamic Scholar H. A. R. Gibb, in his new book, Modern Trends in Islam: "Liberalism . . . has struck no profound roots in the Moslem mind...
...oddly does that once prophetic message read today! How many broken hopes lie on each side of that grand, sweeping highway! For new national religions have arisen in our time with a power and a grip on the soul of men far surpassing that of the gentle and humane rationalist appeal...