This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...it had originally traversed during the primitive ages of the Church. And this, it may be remarked, is a confirmation of the surmise I have delivered in regard of the rise and prevalence of the system of the Incorporealists, for we here discover that this theory declined with the downfall of Scholasticism, that is, when ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...it had originally traversed during the primitive ages of the Church. And this, it may be remarked, is a confirmation of the surmise I have delivered in regard of the rise and prevalence of the system of the Incorporealists, for we here discover that this theory declined with the downfall of Scholasticism, that is, when the simplicity of Christian Doctrine was being disentangled from the perplexities of the Aristotelian Logic and Metaphysics.85 22 See the works of Thomas Aquinas, Suarez, and Eugubinus Steuchus. w In fact there is no department of speculative, and emphatically of practical Theology, that has not been illuminated by the splendours of Aquinas's mind. I have already mentioned the portion of his works treating more immediately of the Angels. 24 This point is noticed by Cud worth in other instances besides that of the history of the controversy respecting the Corporeity of the Angels. 25 The influence of the Aristotelian logic upon the Scholastic development ot the Christian Theology, in the Middle Ages, has been universally recognized. I cannot, however, but suppose that the Metaphysics of Aristotle have exercised just as powerful an influence We have, therefore, three distinct phases in thk controversy; first, that form which the hypothesis as-hi sumed from the tone imparted to it through the opinions this propounded by the Fathers; secondly, its condition at u' the period commencing with the revulsion against their opinion as an effect of the rise of the Scholastic Philosophy; and thirdly, its aspect during the abandonment of this Mediaeval theory in favour of the view embraced by the Divines of primitive Christianity.20 It would exceed the limits of the present chapter to Threefold enumerate the various arguments that have been urged ofthe in ...
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