 | Thomas Paine - 2000 - 388 páginas
...withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the Scripture, which any human hand...might make, but the scripture called the Creation. 287 X. Concerning God, and the Lights Cast on His Existence and Attributes by the Bible The only idea... | |
 | David Mazel - 2000 - 232 páginas
...more instructive writing that is nature. "[D]o we want to know what God is?" asks Paine. "Search not the book called the Scripture, which any human hand...might make, but the Scripture called the creation" (44). This is more or less how literary environmentalism still tends to invoke the wilderness—as... | |
 | Hilary D. Regan, Mark William Worthing - 2002 - 234 páginas
...that God speaketh universally to man ... In sum [fine], do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the Scripture, which any human hand...might make, but the Scripture, called the creation. 21 20. Frank E Manuel, The Religion of Isaac Newton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), 49. 21. Thomas... | |
 | Ted Peters, Gaymon Bennett - 276 páginas
...that God speaketh universally to man ... In sum [fine], do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the Scripture, which any human hand might make, but the Scripture, called the creation.27 Paine admits the possibility of revelation, but rejects the idea that God has ever communicated... | |
 | William R. Hutchison - 2003 - 294 páginas
...Revolution" and also to lavish praise upon their religious radicalism. Vale thought that Paine's deism "breathes as pure a spirit of morality and philosophy,...on the subject, in either ancient or modern times." More commonly, however, writers tolerated the heretic for the sake of his heroics. Jared Sparks, a... | |
 | Robert B. Louden Professor of Philosophy University of Southern Maine - 2007 - 340 páginas
...from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds. . . . Search not the book called the Scripture, which any human hand...might make, but the Scripture called the creation. (419, 420, 42 1) France is often held to be the important exception to Enlightenment religiosity, with... | |
 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 páginas
...withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand...might make, but the scripture called the Creation. The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things.... | |
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Do we want to contemplate his munificence ? We see it in the abundance with which he fills the earth. Do we want to contemplate his mercy? We see it in his not withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is... 
