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The Theistic Conception of the World / An Essay in Opposition to Certain Tendencies of Modern Thought — B. F. Cocker

The Theistic Conception of the World / An Essay in Opposition to Certain Tendencies of Modern Thought

B. F. Cocker

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 344 pages

The Theistic Conception of the World is a collection of essays in Christian apologetics by B. F. Cocker. It defends belief in a personal, providential God and scriptural revelation against trends in nineteenth-century modern thought. It offers a window into nineteenth-century debates between theology and philosophy.

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THE THEISTIC CONCEPTION OF

THE WORLD.

AN ESSAY IN OPPOSITION TO CERTAIN TENDENCIES OF MODERN

THOUGHT.

BΏ B. F. COCKER, D.D., LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN; AUTHOR OF "CHRISTIANITY AND

GREEK PHILOSOPHY."

"Science discloses the method of the world, but not its cause; Religion, its cause, but not its method."—MĵǡǵƗƿŧĵǼ.

NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN

SQUARE.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by

HĵǡǙŧǡ & BǡLjǵƒŧǡǪ,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

PREFACE.

The present volume was announced in the preface to "Christianity and

Greek Philosophy" as nearly ready for publication under the title of

"Christianity and Modern Thought."

Several considerations have induced the author to delay its appearance, the most influential of which has been the desire to await the culmination among a class of self-styled "advanced thinkers" of what they have been pleased to call "the tendency of modern thought." No extraordinary sagacity was needed to foresee the issue,

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Contents

  1. THE THEISTIC CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD.
  2. PREFACE.
  3. CONTENTS.
  4. CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM STATED.
  5. CHAPTER II. GOD THE CREATOR.
  6. CHAPTER III. THE CREATION.
  7. CHAPTER IV. CREATION.—THE GENESIS OR BEGINNING.
  8. CHAPTER V. CREATION: ITS HISTORY.
  9. CHAPTER VI. CONSERVATION.—THE RELATION OF GOD TO THE WORLD.
  10. CHAPTER VII. CONSERVATION.—THE RELATION OF GOD TO THE WORLD. (Continued.)
  11. CHAPTER VIII. THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD IN HUMAN HISTORY.
  12. CHAPTER IX. SPECIAL PROVIDENCE AND PRAYER.
  13. CHAPTER X. MORAL GOVERNMENT. I. ITS GROUND.—THE CORRELATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN.
  14. CHAPTER XI. MORAL GOVERNMENT. II. ITS NATURE, CONDITIONS, METHOD, AND END.
  15. INDEX.
  16. FOOTNOTES:
  17. ADVERTISEMENTS:
  18. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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