Sentences with phrase «primitive idea of god»

In this view, when the primitive idea of God, which was based on the personification of powers of nature, vanishes gradually behind the infinitude of the causal sequence, the concept of God gains in coherence and consistency in proportion as it achieves a firm position in connection with the claims and needs of the human spirit, and becomes the «irreducible coefficient of the achievement of moral processes in self - consciousness.»

And what primitive idea of God?

It would be easy enough in these circumstances to say that God is evil or that all this is in accordance with a primitive idea of God.

Not exact matches

Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step in the advance of Christology was of endless significance for the later development of Christian doctrine, and it was of paramount importance for the Gospel of Mark.

Circumcision also originated in primitive, animistic ideas, but as early as the seventh century it was given an ethical significance: «Yahweh thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Yahweh thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.»

In his concept of revelation Buber combines the meeting of I and Thou with the idea of «momentary Gods» which Usener has presented as characteristic of the most primitive stage of mythical thinking.

The simple fact that there have been so many different theistic religions throughout history, should show that the idea of a «god» is one that has been fabricated by humans to fill a very primitive need.

One of the most important occasions of change in Israel's idea of Yahweh came when this primitive mountain god became the territorial deity of the land of Canaan.

Moreover, the sublimation of actual eating and drinking into smelling the offerings was probably an endeavor to rarefy the more gross conception of the god, and it revealed in the background the primitive ideas it sought to overpass.

Fred Phelps had founded the «Primitive Baptist» Church, based in Topeka Kansas, in 1955, based on the idea that all calamities that befall the United States are a result of God's wrath for the apparent acceptance of homosexuality in American society.