Inerrancy language and things like "scripture is its own interpreter" make sense until they are interpreted rationalistically. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)
This warns that although the math - ematical analogy elucidates, it does not violate the divine mystery and does not penetrate rationalistically into the divine essence itself. ❋ JAMES COLLINS (1968)
He had taught that law was not to be manufactured rationalistically from a blueprint, but grew naturally out of the Volksgeist, like ❋ HERBERT BUTTERFIELD (1968)
Concerning the Scriptures, Luther did not express himself in a more rationalistic manner than Erasmus; nor did he interpret them more rationalistically. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
When the miracle is interpreted dramatically, by analogy to human life, we have mythology; when it is interpreted rationalistically, by analogy to current logic or natural science, we have metaphysics or theosophy. ❋ George Santayana (1907)
What is a minute ago, rationalistically considered, except a tradition and a picture? ❋ Unknown (1905)
Men take thought and ponder rationalistically, touching remote things -- things that only theoretically matter, such as the transit of Venus. ❋ Unknown (1905)
The Ten Plagues of Egypt are somewhat rationalistically handled, as having a true historical basis, but as explicable by natural phenomena, indigenous to Egypt in all ages. ❋ 1821-1902 (1860)
And Christian culture is not produced rationalistically by extrapolating Christian ideas in forms that imitate the world. ❋ Unknown (2008)
That rational element - which is characterized by its distance to things, by mental balance, for it is programmatically not dependent on either the moods and feelings of the lyrical state of mind or on the passions of the state of pathos - that rational element does not allow itself to be lulled into tranquillity; but neither does it hurl itself impatiently at any moral target: in our rationalistically utilitarian, practical civilization, it is sufficiently strongly rooted in our need to know, to acquire knowledge and use it. ❋ Unknown (1984)
Truth independent; truth that we FIND merely; truth no longer malleable to human need; truth incorrigible, in a word; such truth exists indeed superabundantly -- or is supposed to exist by rationalistically minded thinkers; but then it means only the dead heart of the living tree, and its being there means only that truth also has its paleontology and its 'prescription,' and may grow stiff with years of veteran service and petrified in men's regard by sheer antiquity. ❋ William James (1876)
Nicea was ultimatly decisive between two points of view, though both were underpinned by similar assumptions; those who confessed that Christ (according to His Divinity) was "homoousion" ( "same essence" - orthodox view, and despite what some falsely claim, majorative before Arius's rise in popularity) and the novel, but rationalistically appealing teaching of the Alexandrian Priest Arius, that Christ was "unlike" God, though in some wise pre-existed His appearance on earth (being a demiurge, created by God the Father - a sort of arch-angel to put it plainly.) ❋ Mike Rivero (2010)
