Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... In this age, when old errors are appearing in so many and varied forms—old, dead, and long-since buried philosophies raised from the grave, their bones scraped, re-washed, and presented anew to the world, —acquaintance with the great systems of speculative thought, both of belief and unbelief, appears an essential element of ministerial qualification.
He who knows little or nothing of Spinoza, Des Cartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hamilton, Comte, Fichte, Hickok, &c., may be a very good practical preacher, perhaps—whatever that may mean; but can scarcely be esteemed a competent defender of the faith. ...
For more, see J. R. W. Sloan on the connection between theology and philosophy.
He who knows little or nothing of Spinoza, Des Cartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hamilton, Comte, Fichte, Hickok, &c., may be a very good practical preacher, perhaps—whatever that may mean; but can scarcely be esteemed a competent defender of the faith. ...
For more, see J. R. W. Sloan on the connection between theology and philosophy.