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Title: The World's Parliament of Religions : an illustrated and popular story of the World's First Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in connection with the Columbian exposition of 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902
Subjects: World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893 Religions
Publisher: Chicago : Parliament Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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n the basis of Israels God-cognition. This being the highest inmans cognition, the solution of all problems upon this basis, ecclesiastical,ethical or in eschatology, must be final in theology, provided the judgmentwhich leads to this solution is not erroneous. An erroneous judgment fromtrue antecedents is possible. In such cases the first safeguard is an appealto reason, and the second, though not secondary, is an appeal to holy writand its best commentaries. Wherever these two authorities agree, reasonand holy writ, that the solution of any problem from the basis of Israels WISE: THEOLOGY OF JUDAISM. 295 God-cognition is correct, certitude is established, the ultimate solution isfound. This is the structure of a systematic theology: Israels God-cognition isthe substratum, the substance; holy writ and the standard of reason are thedesiderata, and the faculty of reason is the apparatus to solve the problemswhich in their unity are the theology of Judaism, higher than which nonecan be.
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HFSFSHFk NATH 1111 (;(>II)r\ IKMFM V \\ P.I VVRIS IVIMA. THE ANCIENT RELIGION OF INDIA AND PRIMI-TIVE REVELATION. By Rev. Maurice Phillips. The more we go back, the more we examine the germs of anyreligion, the purer I believe we shall find the conceptions of the Deity.—Max MiJLLER, The Ancient Religion of India is revealed in the Vedas. The Vedascontain three strata of literature extending over a period of more than athousand years, viz.: The Manthras, the oldest hymns; the Bra/unanas,treatises on ritualism; and the Upanishads, philosophical disquisitions.Each of these marks a distinct period in the development of religion. Todo justice, therefore, to the subject of this paper, it would be necessary totrace the Vedic doctrine of Theology, Cosmology, Anthropology and Sote-riology in each of these periods, and to point out what light they throw onthe Bible doctrine of a Primitive Revelation. Space, however, will notpermit me to do more than to trace roughly the first, viz., the Ve

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