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Often appears with: un-personal god · the nature and attributes of God · natural theology · natural law and higher law · christian trinity and incarnation

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1825-01-01
Letter I. 291 > Letter? To kill that which it is its appropriate office to enliven? (135/144)

He warns that eliminating personal divine attributes leads to distaste for Christian doctrines and a shift toward a de-personalized “FATE” of physical attributes, undermining natural theology “evidences” and biblical reliance.

side, never see but half of a subject at one time, and forgetting the one before they get to the other are sure not to detect any inconsistency between them. And what has been the consequence? An increasing unwillingness to contemplate the Supreme Being in his *personal* attributes: and thence a distaste to all the peculiar doctrines of the Christian Faith, the Trinity, the Incarnation of the Son of God, and Redempt…