The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Development: Translated From the Fourth German Edition
The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Development: Translated From the Fourth German Edition

Author: August Neander

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021736666

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Gain a deeper understanding of Christianity's origins with this insightful study of the life of Jesus Christ. Drawing from the latest scholarship and research, August Neander provides a comprehensive account of the historical development of the Christian faith. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of religion. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Development
The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Development

Author: August Neander

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9781514699737

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Neander's theological position can only be explained in connection with Schleiermacher, and the manner in which he modified and carried out the principles of his master. Characteristically meditative, he rested on the great central truths of Christianity, and recognized their essential reasonableness and harmony. Alive to the claims of criticism, he strongly asserted the rights of Christian feeling. "Without it," he emphatically says, "there can be no theology; it can only thrive in the calmness of a soul consecrated to God." This explains his favourite motto: "Pectus est quod theologum facit." His General History of the Christian Religion and Church (Allgemeine Geschichte der christlichen Religion und Kirche) remains the greatest monument of his genius. In this Neander's chief aim was everywhere to understand what was individual in history. In the principal figures of ecclesiastical history he tried to depict the representative tendencies of each age, and also the types of the essential tendencies of human nature generally. His guiding principle in dealing both with the history and with the present condition of the church was that Christianity has room for the various tendencies of human nature, and aims at permeating and glorifying them all; that according to the divine plan these various tendencies are to occur successively and simultaneously and to counterbalance each other, so that the freedom and variety of the development of the spiritual life ought not to be forced into a single dogmatic form.