platonizing

He charged that in later antiquity platonizing theologians, who had absorbed the teachings of philosophy before becoming Christians, grafted the senseless doctrine on the pure and simple faith.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas

This apologue has been a favorite with platonizing poets, like Spenser and Milton.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century

It assumes that when our ordinary consciousness goes out, the only alternative surviving kind of consciousness that could be possible is abstract mentality, living on spiritual truth, and communicating ideal wisdom -- in short, the whole classic platonizing

Memories and Studies

I don't see how it can ever revive again in its ancient platonizing rôle of claiming to be the most authentic, intimate, and exhaustive definer of the nature of reality.

A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy

To a platonizing divine they look trivial; picked up in the street.

Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture.

But the paflage, inflead of proving this readinefs of the platonizing Chriftians, proves the readinefs of the pa - gan philofophers to apply this fame name to a perfon; even to the Maker of the Univerfe.

Tracts in controversy with Dr. Priestley upon the historical question of the belief of the first ages in Our Lord's divinity : originally published in the years, 1783, 1784, and 1786 ..

You in - form me that "the platonizing Chriftians were not

Tracts in controversy with Dr. Priestley upon the historical question of the belief of the first ages in Our Lord's divinity : originally published in the years, 1783, 1784, and 1786 ..