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  • When he founded _The Fortnightly Review_ she contributed to its first number, published in May, 1865, an article on "The Influence of Rationalism," in which she reviewed Lecky's _Rationalism in Europe_.

    George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

  • Rationalism never attained to the dignity of a clear and cogent elucidation until the publication of Röhr's _Letters on Rationalism_, and of Wegscheider's _Institutes_.

    History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868

  • The divine teaching authority of the Church was, of course, first rejected; then the divinity of Christ; then, as a consequence, the guidance of the Scriptures (no longer believed to be inspired), natural Reason was put in their place (whence the term Rationalism from Latin ratio= reason); last came the denial of the existence of God Himself.

    Forerunners of the French Revolution. Part 3a de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • The divine teaching authority of the Church was, of course, first rejected; then the divinity of Christ; then, as a consequence, the guidance of the Scriptures (no longer believed to be inspired), natural Reason was put in their place (whence the term Rationalism from Latin ratio= reason); last came the denial of the existence of God Himself.

    Archive 2007-10-14 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Still we are apparently committed to the term Rationalism, although it is not an altogether fortunate designation which the English-speaking race has given to a tendency practically universal in the thinking of

    An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900

  • We must not imagine that, because the term Rationalism has been frequently employed within the last few years, it is of very recent origin either as a word or skeptical type.

    History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868

  • Rationalism is not the same as rationality, which is based upon God's creation of the universe.

    Intrusive Government: Quotes From the Past 2009

  • In many respects, because that Rationalism is seeking not just to delineate the territory into fields but to purge it of symbols first, to scour it down to a tabula rasa on which one particular new system of the world is to be engraved, it is a hostile act of aggression.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • In many respects, because that Rationalism is seeking not just to delineate the territory into fields but to purge it of symbols first, to scour it down to a tabula rasa on which one particular new system of the world is to be engraved, it is a hostile act of aggression.

    The Eternal Moment of Modernity Hal Duncan 2007

  • It is a small step to the original skeptics and cynics who took Rationalism from the religious domain of monotheism into the secular domain of philosophy.

    The Eternal Moment of Modernity Hal Duncan 2007

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