primitive faith

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Then comes protest, repudiation, reform, and usually a new revelation, embodying the primitive faith, and adapting it to modern times and conditions.

From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by Buck, J. D. (Jirah Dewey)

Active prayer and pure love are the elements of this faith, which is born of the Roman Church but returns to the Christianity of the primitive faith.

From The Lily of the Valley by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

I imagined a little colony, so animated by primitive faith, love, and disinterestedness, that the collective moral influence of all might interpret and enforce the words of the few who preached.

From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Newman, Francis William

What is even more remarkable is that in the primitive faith, Shinto, a kindred doctrine exists; and various forms of the belief seem to characterize the thought of the Chinese and of the Koreans.

From Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints by Hearn, Lafcadio

The evidence of Eusebius, on any subject connected with primitive faith and practice, cannot be looked to without feelings of deep interest.

From Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by Tyler, James Endell