 | Greg Forster - 2005 - 348 sidor
...incompatible with any genuine search for truth. Locke expresses this in a shocking but perfectly apt metaphor: "he that takes away reason, to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does much what the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes the better to receive the remote light... | |
 | William Wainwright - 2004 - 562 sidor
...is merely probable for reason (694-96). He concludes that faith is simply "natural Reason enlarged by a new set of Discoveries communicated by GOD immediately, which Reason vouches the truth of (698). The ndeist view is more difficult to describe than the rationalist perspective, partly because... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 sidor
...689, 1 2. added as a new chapter 19 to the fourth edition of the Essay in 1700. The enthusiast who 'takes away Reason, to make way for Revelation, puts out the Light of both'; it is only reason that can judge whether a revelation is from God.'0 In The Reasonableness of Christianity... | |
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Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new... 
