Author: E. Hermitage Day

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-16

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780332957531

Excerpt from On the Evidence for the Resurrection: With Reference Especially to the Emmaus Narrative of St. Luke's, Gospel, and to Recent Criticism At the outset the right of free investigation and reverent criticism may be frankly conceded. N 0 type of Christianity is to-day content to enforce the acceptance of a fact as historical by the mere exercise of authority. If we reject as fundamentally unscientific the denial of the possibility of miracle, the assertion that the miraculous constitutes an ia vasion of the uniformity of nature and of law, we have on our side to abandon the exercise of a coercive authority. Authority has its place and its function - and they are not to be undervalued - ia the determination of religious belief. But when Christianity appeals to a fact, as being among the bases of belief, it must needs submit the evidence for that fact to investigation. Nor need Christianity make that submission half-heartedly. Belief in the Resurrection rests upon testimony which is strong both absolutely and relatively; absolutely, for the witness to it is in the main unshaken by any criticism which does not resort to the denial of inconvenient pieces of evidence; relatively, for the hypotheses which have been framed in order to account for the rise of a belief in the Resur rection are themselves not only incapable of proof, but are, as hypotheses, singularly unconvincing. 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.