 | Charles Grandison Finney - 1835 - 450 σελίδες
...way, and use them for the glory of God. 3. It is not a miracle, or dependent oil a miracle, in any sense. It is a purely philosophical result of the...as any other effect produced by the application of means. There may be a miracle among its antecedent causes, or there may not. The apostles employed... | |
 | William Carl Placher - 1988 - 230 σελίδες
...to work without a special interest being awakened. . . . A revival of religion is not a miracle. ... It is a purely philosophical result of the right use...as any other effect produced by the application of means. . . . I wish this idea to be impressed on all your minds, for there has long been an idea prevalent... | |
 | George M. Thomas - 1989 - 270 σελίδες
...exercise of the powers of nature. ... [A revival] is not a miracle, or dependent on a miracle, in any sense. It is a purely philosophical result of the...as any other effect produced by the application of means. . . . There is no natural event in which His own agency is not concerned. (1835, 13, 21) Within... | |
 | Roger Finke, Rodney Stark - 1992 - 352 σελίδες
...denied there was anything miraculous about revivals: "(A revival of religion] is not a miracle. ... It is a purely philosophical result of the right use of the constituted means." As for the "constituted means," Finney published lengthy instructions explaining just what to do and how... | |
 | Deborah Vansau McCauley - 1995 - 584 σελίδες
...dependent on a miracle in any sense. It is a purely philosophical [scientific] result of the right use of constituted means — as much so as any other effect produced by the application of means."4 No longer was a revival understood to be the result of a quickening of the Holy Spirit in... | |
 | Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe - 1996 - 340 σελίδες
...reluctance to obey. . . . A revival of religion is not a miracle ... or dependent on a miracle, in any sense. It is a purely philosophical result of the...as any other effect produced by the application of means. . . . But means will not produce a revival, we all know, without the blessing of God. No more... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 1997 - 502 σελίδες
...is not a miracle, or dependent on a miracle, in any sense. It is a purely philosophical [scientific] result of the right use of the constituted means—...as any other effect produced by the application of means. There mav be a miracle among its antecedent causes, or there may not. The apostles employed... | |
 | George M. Thomas - 1989 - 260 σελίδες
...exercise of the powers of nature. ... [A revival] is not a miracle, or dependent on a miracle, in any sense. It is a purely philosophical result of the right use of the constituted means—as much so as any other effect produced by the application of means. . . . There is no natural... | |
 | John R. McKivigan - 1999 - 424 σελίδες
...departments of his government-in nature and in grace" (Finney, 1960;21). If a revival succeeded, it was "a purely philosophical result of the right use of the constituted means." "And by philosophical," comments McLoughlin, "he meant scientific" (Finney, 1960:13; McLoughlin 1959:84).... | |
 | Erwin Fahlbusch, Geoffrey William Bromiley - 1999 - 846 σελίδες
...on Various Suhiects and Lectures on Revivals of Religion. In his view a revival is not a miracle hut "a purely philosophical result of the right use of the constituted means" 1Lectures, 131. With heresy charges likely, in 1836 he resigned his Preshyterian affiliation and hecame... | |
| |
It is not a miracle, or dependent on a miracle, in any sense. It is a purely philosophical result of the right use of the constituted means — as much so as any other effect produced by the application of means. 
