本书是将信仰作为一个异常玄奥的非直接认知性的问题来看待,即玄问题,同时也把信仰看成是最高问题来看待,即元问题。
正如可以想象得到的那样,那篇讲演词是极端唯信仰论那一类的;这在圣保罗的神学理论中已经得到阐述:只要信仰基督就可以释罪。
The sermon, as might be expected, was of the extremest antinomian type; on `justification by faith, as expounded in the theology of St Paul.
想想17世纪,天主教会对加利莱奥反叛的信仰进行了审判,诗人威廉·布莱克对艾萨克·牛顿的机械论世界观进行了严厉的批评。
Think of Gallileo's 17th-century trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet William Blake's harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton.
他以犀利而简洁的语言,积极地揭露和否定各种五花八门的伪科学,如顺势治疗﹑信仰疗法﹑创世论﹑人智说﹑弯勺术﹑占星学以及飞碟说。
Any beliefs he thought pseudoscientific, such as homeopathy, Scientology, creationism, anthroposophy, spoon-bending, astrology and flying saucers, he would dismiss with cool efficiency.
But in all likelihood Hebrews of an older time, the patriarchal period, the second millennium BCE--they probably weren't markedly different from many of their polytheistic neighbors. Archaeology would suggest that.
但很有可能更早的,西元前2000年族长统治时期的希伯来人,他们可能和其他信仰多神论的异邦人,没有什么太大的不同,这一点考古学会帮我们证明。
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