In the judgment of the author of the following treatise, the time
has now arrived when the questions at issue between Theism on the
one hand, and the various forms of Antitheism on the other, may be
permanently settled, and that upon scientific grounds. All these
questions now, in reality, stand out before the world in visible
dependence upon a single issue, the validity of the human
Intelligence as a faculty of world-knowledge. Antitheism, in all
its forms, has openly based itself upon the assumption, and this is
its final stronghold, that all our world-knowledge, subjective and
objective, is exclusively phenomenal, mere appearance, in which no
reality of any kind appears; and that, consequently, "the reality
existing behind all appearances is, and ever must be, unknown." The
fact is also being "known and read of all men," that, this
principle being admitted, all questions in regard to causation,
proximate or ultimate, are undeniably at an end. "What can we
reason but from what we know?" Equally manifest to all sober
thinkers has the fact become, that if it be granted that we have a
valid knowledge of "the things that are made," the proposition is
undeniable that we have an equally valid knowledge of the being and
perfections of a personal God, "the Creator of the heavens and the
earth. A fundamental aim of the author of this treatise has been
not only to subvert utterly the antitheistic philosophy in all its
actual and possible forms, and to verify for Theism an immovable
foundation; but, also to bring out into distinct isolation the real
theistic problem and syllogism in all its varied forms, so that the
argument throughout may be seen to be, and to have been, conducted
upon trulyscientific principles. With these suggestions, the work
is commended to the most rigid scrutiny of the friends of truth.
ASA MAHAN (1799-1889) was America's foremost Christian educator,
reformer, philosopher, and pastor. He was founding president of two
colleges and one university, where he was able to inspire numerous
reforms, publish authoritative philosophical texts, and promote
powerful revivals like his close associate Charles Finney. He led
the way on all important fronts while being severely persecuted. He
introduced the new curriculum later adopted by Harvard, was the
first to instruct and grant liberal college degrees to white and
colored women, advised Lincoln during the Civil War, and among many
other remarkable achievements, was a father to the early
evangelical and holiness movements.
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