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" Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. "
An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ... - Page 131
by David Hume - 1817
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The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader

Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - Enlightenment - 2003 - 496 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means,...confine ourselves to such as we find in the Pentateuch [the first five books of the Old Testament, traditionally attributed to Moses], which we shall examine,...
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The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader

Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - History - 2003 - 494 pages
...reason. Our most holv religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method ol exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means,...let us confine ourselves to such as we find in the Pentaieuch [the first five books ol the Old Testament, traditionally attributed to Moses], which we...
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Inroads: Paths in Ancient and Modern Western Philosophy

Murray Miles - Philosophy - 2003 - 698 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. (165) It is hard to mistake the irony of this. Where Locke and Kant were sincere believers, Hume pretends...
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God's Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to ...

David S. Katz - Religion - 2004 - 428 pages
...since 'Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure'. This was the tactic of 'those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume - Philosophy - 2004 - 116 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. lo make this more evident, let us examine those miracles, related in scripture; and not to lose ourselves...
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Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

David Hume - Philosophy - 2006 - 629 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is fonnded on Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means...let us confine ourselves to such as we find in the Peniatench, which we shall examine, according to the principles of these pretended Christians, not...
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Modern Christian Thought, Second Edition

James C. Livingston, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza - Religion - 456 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. How is this to be understood? Was Hume involved in a volte-face ль А. Е. Taylor claims,51 or is...
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Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Other Writings

Stephen Buckle - Philosophy - 2007 - 223 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason;39 and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means,...let us confine ourselves to such as we find in the Pentateuch,40 which we shall examine, according to the principles of these pretended Christians, not...
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Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

David Hume - Philosophy - 2007 - 630 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means...related in Scripture ; and, not to lose ourselves in too \vide a field, let us confine ourselves to such as we find in the Pentatench, which we shall examine,...
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Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century: Illustrated from Writers of the ...

John Martin Creed, J. S. Boys Smith - Church and state - 1934 - 352 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason: and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means,...let us examine those miracles, related in scripture; 1 [1st ed. "can ever amount".] and not to lose ourselves in too wide a field, let us confine ourselves...
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