revealed theology
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The nature of the divine and its relation to the world is given by revealed theology, which is not accessible to man's own researches and is, as the substance of faith, superior to all knowledge.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Collison, Harry
The apostles built revealed religion upon natural religion, revealed theology upon natural theology, according to the rule, “That is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; afterward that which is spiritual.”
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman
The difficulties which I have endeavoured up to now to remove have been almost all common to natural and revealed theology.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.
To build up a professedly revealed theology on a professedly natural one is to construct a system without either unity or profound connection.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste
For it must be taken into consideration that the objections of the Manichaeans are hardly less contrary to natural theology than to revealed theology.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.
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