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Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to the sun. If religion is excluded from our study, every process of thought will be arrested before it reaches its proper goal. The structure of thought must remain a truncated cone, with its proper apex lacking.

Robert Lewis Dabney

I predict that the time will come in this once free America when the battle for religious liberty will have to be fought over again, and will probably be lost, because the people are already ignorant of its true basis and conditions.

Robert Lewis Dabney

Robert Lewis Dabney

Robert Lewis Dabney

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Born: March 5, 1820

Died: January 3, 1898 (aged 77)

Bio: Robert Lewis Dabney was an American Christian theologian, Southern Presbyterian pastor, Confederate States Army chaplain, and architect. He was also chief of staff and biographer to Stonewall Jackson. His biography of Jackson remains in print today.

Known for:

A defence of Virginia
The Five Points of Calvinism (1895)
Sacred rhetoric
On Secular Education
Systematic Theology (1878)

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