Download e-book for kindle: THE RELIGIONS OF AUTHORITY AND THE RELIGION OF THE SPIRIT by Auguste Sabatier

THE RELIGIONS OF AUTHORITY AND the faith OF THE SPIRIT (1904) [SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED EDITION]:

THIS quantity kinds a sequel to the paintings which the writer released in 1897, lower than the name, "Outlines of a Philosophy of faith established upon Psychology and History."Two structures of theology nonetheless confront each other: the theology of authority and the theology of expertise. they're characterised by way of tools appreciably adversarial within the medical improvement of spiritual principles and Christian dogmas. To the answer of the query of process the current paintings is consecrated. at this time hour one procedure is demise and destined quickly to vanish ; the opposite is taking up ever extra energetic improvement, and is destined to triumph. the matter right here mentioned belongs now not just to the order of philosophy. It reacts strongly upon the social order. in reality, the kin among civil and non secular society, among Church and nation, inevitably fluctuate in personality in accordance as faith is conceived of as an internal notion upspringing in human consciences which have been tilled and
sown through the divine Spirit, or as a supernatural establishment charged by means of a better and exterior authority with the schooling, education, and executive of human spirits. within the first case faith turns into inherent in civil society itself, because it is within the human moral sense ; it acts underneath the skin, just like the hidden sap that awakens the winter-bound tree to the hot lifetime of spring, but neither suppresses nor does violence to its valid improvement. within the moment, to the contrary, faith claims exterior authority as a divine legislations to which all human legislation needs to yield, as an extra-human fact which the intelligence needs to obtain with docility, as a tutelage, in truth, to which guy needs to submit.