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Julia Ward Howe

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

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Julia Ward Howe is saying that theology often replaces the true understanding that comes from God with ideas created by people’s own cleverness. She suggests that human thinking tries to take the place of the deeper, divine insight that theology should be based on.

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