Reason and Revelation: Being an Examination Into the Nature and Contents of Scripture Revelation As Compared with Other Forms of Truth (Classic Reprint)

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Tm: dificulty attending any investigation of the question regarding the mode in which spiritual truth is (what is termed) revealed to man cannot be exaggerated. It has been maintained, on the one hand, that there has been spiritual truth among men apart from what many are in the habit of regarding as a special revelation of it; and, on the other, it is asserted that all such spiritual knowledge is derived by tradition from some original special revelation, possibly from the Jewish. There are facts that have been held as countenancing both theories. In the remains of ancient mythologies, as well as in present religions other than the Christian, points of elevation, rising apparently to the height of genuine spiritual insight into spiritual truth, have been reached by seemingly independent means. While again, mingled with these, are to be found striking resemblances to many narrative portions of the Jewish and Chris tian revelations, forcibly suggesting to many minds some actual connection of the one with the other. But a more painstaking investigation of primitive forms Of_ thought, especially by means of comparative religion and comparative philology, has overthrown much that was formerly considered to give likelihood to both explanations.

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