Reconciliation of science and religion / by Alexander Winchell.

  • Alexander Winchell
Date:
1877
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    ANALYSES I. NECESSAEY RELATIONS OP INTELLECT AND FAITH. Eights on both sides of the existing conflict, 18.—The controversy one of long duration, 18.—Two imperishable forces antagonizing each other, 19.—Religious characteristics innate in man. Proofs, 19-20.—The signifi- cance of a power native to humanity, 20-21.—Generalizations from relig- ious phenomena, 21-22.—What is the religious nature ? Answer, 22.— Contrasted with the cognitive powers, 22-23.—What is conscience ? An- swer, 24.—It is not a knowing faculty, 24.—Sway of the rehgious feelings in the life of man, 26.—Incipient antagonism of the knowing faculties, 26. —Continued aggressions of the knowing faculties, 27.—Fidelity of religious faith to its objects, 27.—Science seeks only truth—true divinity, 28.—Faith accepts what science offers as true, and hallows it, 28.—^Faith tends to conservatism ; science to progress; hence strife, 29.—Distinction betweeen pure religious faith and its accessories, 29.—The progress of science re- forms the accessories, 30.—Alternating ascendency of faith and intellect, 32.—Explanation of the chronic conflict, 32.—Religion necessary to the •welfare of science, 33.—Antagonism a universal law in nature, 34.—Faith finds an avowed enemy in the depraved heart of man, 35.—The antago- nism of faith and intellect beneficent, 36.—It has purified the religious sys- tem, 36.—The constant and the variable factor in religion, 37.—Historical development of the religious system, 37-39.—Imperishability of religion, 39. n. ORIENTAL AND GRECIAN PStCHIC HISTOIIY. Periodicity in the dominance of faith and intellect, 41.—Laws of the interaction of faith and intellect, 42-43.—Psychic cycles, 44.—Orbits of faith and intellect, 44.—Psychic epicycles, 45.—Overlapping of phases, 46. —Bifurcation in cyclic movements, 46.—Egyptian Pstciiic History : First Psychic Cycle, embracing the era of Memphis, 46; Second FsycMc Cycle, embracing the period of the later monuments, 47; Third Psychic Cycle dates from Alexander's conquest, 48 ; Fonrth Psychic Cycle, from the con- quest by the Arabians, 48.—Cuinese Psvcnic History : First Psychic Cy- cle precedes Confucius, 48; Secojid Psychic Cycle, from Confucius to the 1*
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