Sentences with phrase «dependence upon reason»

«The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation...» ~ Ingersoll

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The much - discussed September lecture in Regensburg was precisely an appeal to Western secularists to recognise that philosophy is crippled by its exclusion of the questions addressed by religion, and an appeal to Christians not to repudiate the Christian - Hellenic synthesis with its accent upon the mutual dependence of faith and reason.

There only remains this particular difficulty, which in the preceding argument was touched on, concerning the dependence of the substance [upon its cause] and, especially, that [dependence] which is through a mode of creation; for it does not intrinsically constitute a substance, nor does it pertain to its completion; therefore in no way will it be an incomplete substance, nor will it nevertheless be an accident, for the reason touched on, namely, because it is not in a subject.