“ Faith represents God in sensory objects, in the stone or wood from which it carves an image, and in the wafer made from corn which faith supposes to be Christ’s body. Pure insight perversely interprets this to mean that faith worships a stone, etc., which surely is alien to self-consciousness. ”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807). copy citation
Author | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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Source | The Phenomenology of Spirit |
Topic | insight consciousness |
Date | 1807 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by Michael Inwood |
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