Confessions Of An Inquiring Spirit

Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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ISBN 13 : 9781535587839
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Coleridge's career reads like a series of detachments from all the ordinary ties and relationships of life. The opium habit may have had much to do with evils that befell him, but there was some deeper hidden cause, whose action was only intensified by opium, which of itself alone explains the strange and sad vicissitudes, the failure, the poverty, the disappointments, the humiliations beneath which he groaned, but through all of which he carried his higher integrity unharmed. This deeper cause, oftentimes lying beneath his consciousness, acting indirectly, but never losing its potency, was his passion for freedom, individual freedom as well as national and ecclesiastical." -The Atlantic Monthly "'Aides to Reflection,' and 'Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit,' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge are two of the most suggestive and fruitful theological works that have been published in this century....To men whom these books, to use a Coleridgian term, have 'found' their value cannot readily be estimated, for they have enabled them to look at life and at the Bible with new eyes." -The Spectator "In Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, he was the first to show his fellow countrymen with convincing illustrations and impassioned eloquence that the mediaeval and post-Reformation dogma of inspiration could only lead to irreverence or casuistry. He taught them to acquire their estimate of Scripture from the contents and from the claims of Scripture itself, not from the theories and inventions of men respecting it. He proved how clearly a Christian thinker could see that the various books of the Bible greatly differ from each other in value, and could yet honor the Bible as deeply as the Apostles themselves." Frederic W. Farrar, -History of Interpretation: Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford, 1896 "All the world knows that Samuel Taylor Coleridge took the shoes from off his feet when he trod and broke the holy ground in his 'Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit,' and reverentially proceeded to hurl away what, according to his 'private 'judgment,' he considered the superstitions rubbish which had accumulated during the course of several millenniums, and unveil the primitive Word, stamped and authenticated with, 'Thus saith the Lord.'" -The Eclectic Review