Sublime

First, Joseph assumes that behind everything that happened was the goodness and love of God.

This is why we need a Bible. Our natural intuition can only give us a God like us.

clearly teach that there is no approach to the knowledge of God that does not involve turning the mind and the will toward the perception of God in all things and of all things in God.

John Henry Newman,

Rousseau advanced the idea that man is born naturally good but is corrupted by society. From Rousseau came the modern notion that the freer a society is, the more virtuous it is.

Adams understood that liberty under the Constitution could only work if the people were virtuous, restraining their passions and directing them toward the good—as defined, presumably, by Adams’s rationalistic religious belief.

In short, it would be the first century in which science would have a greater impact than religion on the course of history. With his declaration that God was dead, Nietzsche had encapsulated the crisis that would accompany this triumph of science over religion. Although science provided a better understanding of how the world worked, it didn’t

John was saying, “We agree that there is an ordering structure behind the universe, and that the meaning of life is to be found in aligning oneself with it.” But John was also saying that the Logos behind the universe was not an abstract, rational principle that could be known only through high contemplation by the educated elite. Rather, the Logos