Orthodoxy versus philosophy

Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit primary

He claims it is England/its intellectual culture’s misfortune to combine Locke and Scottish philosophy with religious commitment, creating irreconcilable tensions where the same philosophical principles are seen as threatening orthodoxy.

essentially spiritual, and a system of philosophy which excludes the very idea of all spiritual power and agency, in their only distinctive and proper character, cannot be consistently associated together. It is our peculiar misfortune in this country that, while the philosophy of Locke and the Scottish writers has been received in full faith, as the only rational system, and its leading principles especially passed…