Machiavelli was the instigator of a movement, the first "youth movement," of aspiring princes who would conquer nature, reclaim the Garden of Eden on earth, and make
revealed religion irrelevant.
does not mention a phrase Newman introduces in this very sermon to speak precisely of the personalist nature of
revealed religion: "method of personation." The personal God reveals Godself in history through the mediation of human persons, supremely in Jesus Christ.
That's why
revealed religion provides us with a unique ability to unconditionally accept what has traditionally been taught and avoid even the slightest prospect of any other viewpoint or interpretation.
The sections deal with separate aspects of his life and work, especially sex and
revealed religion. Throughout the book the good Professor writes in a very personal style, relating Darwin to her own work and scholarly adventures.
Rather, we recognize that monogamous heterosexual marriage developed because of psychology, biology, human nature and Judeo-Christian
revealed religion. Monogamous heterosexual marriage is not an arbitrary practice arising from the will of the strongest.
His principal concern, however, is with the growth in virtue and awareness that is available to men and women who enter into a relationship honoured by both natural law and
revealed religion. Thus the challenges to this all-important tradition by, e.g., the contemporary views about children are seriously examined and found wanting.
In this manner, I will try to narrow the gap between religion and science, but not so far as to validate any particular
revealed religion" (p.
Favoring the ruling patrician elite of Geneva, Vernet eventually fell out with Rousseau when the latter championed the Genevan bourgeois and renounced
revealed religion.
Revealed religion, Fichte argues, must serve morality, and genuine revelation must accord with morality.
Benedict, however, praised Newman as an apostle of "the vital place of
revealed religion in civilized society." It was in some ways a classically "Ratzingerian" beatification, a theologian-pope embracing and extolling a fellow intellectual, rather than a devotional saint associated with popular religiosity.
His insights into the relationship between faith and reason, into the vital place of
revealed religion in civilized society, and into the need for a broadlybased and wide-ranging approach to education were not only of profound importance for Victorian England, but continue today to inspire and enlighten many all over the world.
As for the civil society groups and organizations that raise banners of freedom for all, they are placing their credibility at great risk, as there is no way to justify attacking a
revealed religion with freedom.
The answer is a big "No", because Islam, as the last divinely
revealed religion, has not come to force new duties on its believers, but rather to bring about the proper relationship between human beings and between humans and their creator.
She shares elements in the literature of English freethinking that convinced her of this, among them Rochester, Blount, and the faith of unbelief; Behn, Fontenelle, and the cheats of
revealed religion; Swift's Tale of a Tub and the anthropology of religion; Swift, credulity, and the pious fraud; and Pope's Essay on Man and the afterlife of English freethinking.
