The Works Of Orestes A Brownson Volume V Containing The Convert And The First Part Of The Writings In Defence Of The Church

Author : Henry F. Brownson
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ISBN 13 : 9781331533788
Total Pages : 610 pages
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Download or read book The Works of Orestes A. Brownson, Vol. 4 written by Henry F. Brownson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Orestes A. Brownson, Vol. 4: Collected and Arranged It is not without much hesitation that the present volume has been prepared for publication. It contains many false theories and much rationalism, naturalism, and hardly disguised atheism. Its starting-point is as far from Catholic truth as it is possible to get without openly denying all religion and even the existence of any being superior to man. Our Blessed Saviour is indeed admitted to be the Son of God but in the same breath it is claimed that all men are equally sons of God The worship of God is restricted to the service of man, and the only means of attaining to a heaven hereafter is declared to be the creation of a heaven on earth. It is attempted to reconcile the aspirations of the soul with the desires of the body, spiritual and eternal with carnal and temporal interests, not by subjecting the latter to the former, the lower to the higher, but by declaring all equally great, holy, and important. Such and similar doctrines the author was earnestly engaged for the rest of his life in refuting, and neither the eloquence of style nor the depth of thought with which they were advocated would be a sufficient reason for presenting them anew to the world. Whatever is likely to tend to spread false or erroneous views of God, the church, or society, is equally condemned by the laws of religion and by the dictates of reason. Hence, the question is simply whether the heterodox writings of Dr. Brownson, when collected in a volume by themselves, and placed nearly, if not quite, in the order in which they were originally produced, are suited to confirm or to refute the errors they contain. They could confirm them only through the weight of his personal authority as a philosopher and a theologian, or else through the force of the arguments by which he supports them. But his personal authority must have the contrary effect, for every reader knows he has retracted and refuted all these errors. Nor can the force of his arguments mislead, for they are either refuted in this very volume or in the third volume of these works, as well as elsewhere in his writings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.