JOSE M. BLANCO WHITE: EVOLUCION DE SU PENSAMIENTO TEOLOGICO. (SPANISH TEXT) (BRITAIN).
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Title
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JOSE M. BLANCO WHITE: EVOLUCION DE SU PENSAMIENTO TEOLOGICO. (SPANISH TEXT) (BRITAIN).
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Identifier
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AAI8423051
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identifier
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8423051
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Creator
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ARDANAZ, FRANCISCO XAVIER.
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Contributor
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Martin Nozick
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Date
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1984
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Religion, History of | Biography
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Abstract
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Blanco, individualist by nature, reacted soon against a religious system of thought, which was characterized by an undisputable doctrine implemented by a moral obligation to follow. Facing the conflict between ecclesiastic authority and the rights of personal reason devoted himself to the inquiry of truth in which he spent the entire life. First, under the influence of Bacon adopted empirical methods of his own and rejected the aprioristic approach of the Catholic Faith.;In a second stage of the evolution he embraced the English rationalism of the seventeeth century, basically the "reasonableness" of Locke, combined with loose elements extracted by the selective work of his mind from the Platonists of Cambridge, as well as from the Latitudinarians.;Engaged in the controversy of the period between the "Oxford Movement" and the "Noetics" of Oriel College took sides with the latest to reject now the authority of the Church of England. His rationalism, at this point rather moderate, moved forward to the acceptance of the so-called "inner feeling," discovered by romantic thinkers.;In the third stage Blanco decided to forgo the authority of the Established Church on the grounds that it is not supported by the Scriptures, mainly on the question of the temporal power of the Church. Christianity is, in his view, a living state of mind, not a collection of abstract propositions. In his endeavor to remove the obstacle of outside interference in the making of the knowledge, he was challenged ultimately by the authority of the Bible. Readings of Kant, and particularly of Fichte, led him to an idealistic rationalism and fell short of accepting a truly pantheistic view of the relations between God and Man.;He finally rejected the authority of the Scriptures in its simple form, and attempted to accommodate that authority to his reason by proposing that God reveals himself to Man, but that the knowledge we have of his revelation is attained by the personal reason.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Spanish
