Evenings with the Skeptics: Or, Free Discussion on Free Thinkers, Volume 2

John Owen

Longmans, Green, and Company, 1881 - Skepticism

Contents

• I: 2
• Indifference of Christ towards Various parties in the early: 5
• Emphasis on esoteric and exo: 9
• Beginnings of doubt and until it was absorbed: 26
• Tenets of Twofold TruthAd NewmanExample of reli: 32
• Doubt sometimes caused by implies that of the object: 43
• Jesuit casuistry an extreme will Dr Trevor explains: 51
• Mr Arundels preaching de attempt to find Christianity: 61
• Relation of probability to theo fered from those of South?: 74
• Mr Harringtons present Christs definition of the will: 80
• Their influence and vitality Mosaic dogmaThe nwer: 90
• Their stress on the written human duty superior to: 96
• No formularies or confessions appreciation of freedom 108: 108
• Mode in which these causes quite opposed to the teaching: 122
• Augustine admits the intellec ChristianityMr Arundel: 130
• EVENING VIII: 137
• Augustinesfrailties disclosed in ment on the opinion: 143
• Human intellects are not losophicoreligious creed: 156
• Waywardness of his youth tus harmomsed with his: 163
• Inquiries as to the nature: 167
• Intercourse of Augustine: 173
• Douhtful how far Augustine Invocation of God quoted: 192
• Points of likeness between tion caused a transfer of: 198
• Afterwards withdrew and ap the future: 200
• Difference hetween the Bishop: 203
• Indebtedness of ecclesiastical: 209
• End of paper Beginning: 215
• Relation of architecture to sors of sound limbs: 224
• Dr Trevor introduces his sub between Aquinass position: 233
• Dr Trevor discriminates be uses of dialecticErigenas: 247
• nationalistic treatment of the the Platonic affinities: 262
• Character of the Sic et Non writers: 276
• His illustrations of the Trinity of eclecticismSketch: 292
• Similarity of his thought: 296
• His semimaterialistic defini: 302
• The solvent properties of nomi Lombard and Aquinas: 306
• Aquinass morality more Aris serter of the maxim: 317
• Miss Leyces tor decides in favour Aquinas as an eclectic: 330
• WILLIAM OF OCKAM: 339
• tionHe asserts the diver: 343
• Miss Leycester thinks the the antipopeIs imprisoned: 350
• Relation of language to know ciscans: 358
• He does not identify himself Reduction of Umversals: 360
• Importance of thisclassitication ideas: 370
• Ockam discriminates between discovery: 383
• Distinction made by Ockam His nominalism in conflict: 389
• His doctrine of God Its Skep that it consists of wilful: 398
• He does not regard his writ mary of OckamHomogene: 404
• Repeatedly forbidden in the jmsf remMiss Leycester: 413
• Dr Trevor regards Bishop Close of discussion Prospec: 419
• Different designations of Ray Raymunds thesis that naturo: 428
• The blending of medical with the allsufficiency of nature: 442
• Albertus Magnus the School for his workThe book: 449
• Pantheism of Raymund His greater than commonly: 459
• How the attributes of God are to ScienceRaymonds insis: 465
• Does not regard miracles as: 471
• Agrippas Life a Romance or persecution by the monks: 480
• These speculations befitting Investigates the sciences: 496
• Agrippas presages as to the Similar employments: 503
• Agrippa was in advance of the and Pomponazzi: 510
• Mr Arundel regards his Skep of the following winter: 516

Popular passages

Page 36 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.

Page 147 - Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all ; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

Page 176 - The night is far spent, the day is at hand : let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day : not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Page 163 - And be these juggling fiends no more believed, ;>< That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.

Page 324 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

Page 213 - Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

Page 54 - Pilate therefore said unto Him, Art Thou a king then? JESUS answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth My voice.

Page 95 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

Page 105 - What then! notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached ; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

Page 359 - Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Evenings with the Skeptics: Or, Free Discussion on Free Thinkers, Volume 2; Evenings with the Skeptics: Or, Free Discussion on Free Thinkers, John Owen
• Author: John Owen
• Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1881
• Original from: the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized: Dec 1, 2007