The ‘Quadrangular Duel’ and the Critique of Religious Unbelief
Assume that Christianity is to be destroyed, what prospect have Mr. Harrison and other like-minded persons of establishing a new religion which will do what was done by the old one? It appears to me that their attempts to do so are not only accidentally unsuccessful but essentially misconceived, and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2004
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The Downside review
Year: 2004, Volume: 122, Issue: 428, Pages: 185-210 |
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| Summary: | Assume that Christianity is to be destroyed, what prospect have Mr. Harrison and other like-minded persons of establishing a new religion which will do what was done by the old one? It appears to me that their attempts to do so are not only accidentally unsuccessful but essentially misconceived, and doomed to failure by the conditions under which they are undertaken. The old story of Talleyrand and the theophilanthropists puts the standing difficulty of all such creeds in a striking light.‘Gentlemen’, he said, after listening to an exposition of their creed, ‘when Jesus Christ established a new religion he found it necessary to be crucified, dead, and buried, and to rise again the third day from the dead; go and do likewise, and your religion will be worth discussing’. |
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| ISSN: | 2397-3498 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Downside review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/001258060412242804 |