Excerpt from A Study of Primitive Christianity Bridal-dawn of thunder-peals, Which all the past of time reveals, Wherever Thought has wedded Fact, ' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Cradle of the Christ: A Study in Primitive Christianity Newman should declare that the critics might have their way with the early records of the religion, which, however curious as literary remains, were not essential to the constitution or the work of the church. Strauss and Renan may speculate and welcome; the mission of the church being to bless mankind, their labors are innocent. A church that does not bless mankind cannot be saved by Auguste Nicolas; a church that does bless mankind cannot be injured by Ernest Renan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Ecce Deus Studies of Primitive Christianity About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Beauties of Primitive Christianity XXVIII. The Creation, XX'IX. Charitable opinions. Concerning the four Grand Divisions of Religion; viz. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Primitive Christianity Its Writings and Teachings in Their Historical Connections, Vol. 1 Ence, the reproach of paganising. That, however, has never made me waver in my conviction, which has remained unshaken ever since I studied under my revered teacher, Ferdinand Christian Baur, that Christianity as a historical phenomenon is to be investigated by the same methods as all other history, and that, in particular, its origin is to be understood by being studied as the normal' outcome Of the manifold factors in the religious and ethical life of the time. Even though the way in which Baur conceived this development was not, as we all know now, quite accurate in detail, yet the principle of development, which he introduced into the his torical study of theology, retains its position by an incontestable right - a position which the temporary reactionary tendency of traditionalism and dogmatic positivism will not ultimately affect in the slightest degree. I believe, moreover, that this tendency is already on the wane, and that the time is not far distant when the application to Biblical Theology of the historical and comparative methods of the Science of Religion will be generally welcomed. When that takes place, people will be able to convince themselves that this scientific investigation of its history in no way endangers the stability of the Christian religion. Quite the contrary. So long as Christianity is conceived of as a miracle, whether unique or repeated, its truth is, for the men of our critical age, always more or less problematical. 'but when it is recognised as the necessary outcome of the development of the religious spirit of our race, towards the production of which the whole history of the ancient world was moving onward, in' the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Primitive Christianity, Vol. 3: Its Writings and Teachings in Their Historical Connections R. Kittel, Ordinary Professor of Theology in the University of Breslau. 105. 6d. Per volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Primitive Christianity, or a Vindication of the Word of God As it is customary for Authors to state their motives for writing, I will simply oh serve, that the only motive which has induc ed me to write this Book, was to bear testi mony to the truth as it is in Jesus; and al so impress upon the minds of the children of men, the great necessity of obeying God, our Heavenly Father, in all his precepts, as they have been revealed by Jesus Christ, and are now upon record, in that well known Book called the New Testament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Primitive Christianity and Its Non-Jewish Sources Of the various demands that have lately been made upon Theology in name of the religious-historical method, there is none so well known as the demand for an inquiry into the dependence of primitive Christianity upon other religions. Nor can any serious objection be offered to this on the ground of principle: for the truth of an idea or the value of an institution is surely altogether independent of its origin. Moreover, it is quite conceivable a priori that, like the Israelitish and Jewish religion, whose influence is self-evident, other religions also have left their mark on the oldest form of Christianity, even when it felt itself in the keenest antagonism to them. And accordingly at the present day these inquiries are in such favour that many will think it premature if they are now to be provisionally summarized, or futile if they are to be not only carried to a further stage, but also subjected to criticism. Perhaps, however, the mode of procedure can be improved where it has erred in any point of detail or of principle. I have just said that the dependence of primitive Christianity upon the Israelitish and Jewish religion is self-evident, and that consequently a fresh demonstration of this connexion is unnecessary. But that religion (and indirectly, therefore, Christianity as well) may have been influenced by still other religions, which must be dealt with if our treatment is not to be one-sided. So far, therefore, as they concern Christianity in any degree, I shall examine also the influences to which the Israelitish and Jewish religion may have been exposed, but not those which would affect only the Old Testament or later Jewish literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
