William Robertson Smith's Profile
Brief about William Robertson Smith: By info that we know William Robertson Smith was born at 1970-01-01. And also William Robertson Smith is Scottish Scientist.
Some William Robertson Smith's quotes. Goto "William Robertson Smith's quotation" section for more.The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
Tags: Nation, National, ReligionThe god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.
Tags: Exist, God, NationThe god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
Tags: Father, God, ThoughtBut if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
Tags: Philosophy, Sense, TrueBut, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
Tags: Essential, Force, ReligionEven the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
Tags: Religion, Sense, StrongIn all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
Tags: Place, Religion, RulesIn better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
Tags: May, Religion, TimesReligion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
Tags: End, Religion, SocietyThat the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
Tags: Death, Idea, LifeThe myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.
Tags: Individual, Interest, WorshipThis being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths.
Tags: Often, Place, StudyThis, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.
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