Word: religion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dean Fenn, of the Divinity School, gave the Dudleian Lecture for this year in Emerson J last evening. The subject was "Natural Religion...
When this lectureship was founded there was extraordinary interest, especially among English thinkers, in what was called Natural Religion, by which was meant religion founded, not upon revelation, but upon the world of nature and of man and apprehended, not by faith, but by reason. The arguments based upon the physical world fall into two groups: Causal and Design. The Causal argument concludes in a dilemma, either branch of which is inconceivable. Of the so-called Design argument, that, from adaptations, has been seriously weakened by the theory of evolution and at present only the argument from an ordered system...
Dean Fenn will give the Dudleian Lecture for this year in Emerson J this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject will be "Natural Religion," in accordance with the first of the four subjects prescribed in 1750 by the founder, Judge Paul Dudley, of the class of 1690, namely, "The proving, explaining and proper use and improvement of the principle of natural religion, as it is commonly called and understood by Divines and Learned...
...subject selected for this year is the first of the series of four subjects prescribed by the founder, Judge Paul Dudley, in 1750; namely, "The proving, explaining and proper use and improvement of the principle of natural religion, as it is commonly called and understood by Divines and Learned...
...Religion is at the present time becoming more and more humanistic in its application--and social service is another word for a laboratory course in human nature. No man can rightfully say that he has known or tried to benefit man until he has seen specimens of his own species that need aid--not aid always of substantial nature--but the moral and mental aid that an educated man can give his uneducated brothers...