Author: W. S. Muntz

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Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781331294016

Excerpt from Rome, St. Paul the Early Church: The Influence of Roman Law on St. Paul's Teaching Phraseology and on the Development of the Church It is to St. Paul we owe that body of doctrine which has exerted the most profound influence on the thought of the Christian Church. Though the foundation of Christianity rests upon the life and teaching, the death and resurrection of the Divine Redeemer, the details of which are preserved for all time by those who wrote the Gospels, yet it was not from those records, or their authors, that the greatest impulse was derived for the propagation of the new religion: that came from St. Paul. A new conception as to the import of Christs death was introduced by his teaching, which marked an advance upon the views prevailing amongst his predecessors. It involved the recognition of Jesus, rather as the Divine Redeemer than the Messiah, disclosing a deeper significance in His death and risen life, and unfolding new aspects of His personality and mission. 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.