Horace Bushnell, Preacher and Theologian

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1899 - 425 Seiten
"Horace Bushnell, Preacher And Theologian is a book written by Theodore T. Munger that explores the life and work of Horace Bushnell. Bushnell was a prominent American preacher and theologian who lived in the 19th century. Munger's book provides a comprehensive overview of Bushnell's life, from his early years as a pastor in Hartford, Connecticut, to his later years as a professor of theology at Yale University. The book also delves into Bushnell's theological views, which were controversial in his time, and his impact on American religious thought. Munger's writing is engaging and informative, making this book a must-read for anyone interested in the history of American religion and theology. "--Amazon.
 

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Seite 16 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Seite 67 - That the child is to grow up a Christian, and never know himself as being otherwise.
Seite 16 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own ; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Seite 378 - I'm apt to think the man That could surround the sum of things, and spy The heart of God, and secrets of his empire, Would speak but love. With him the bright result Would change the hue of intermediate scenes, And make one thing of all theology.
Seite 223 - The Being of God is a kind of Law to his working; for that perfection which God is, giveth perfection to that he doth.
Seite 114 - On an early morning of February, his wife awoke, to hear that the light they had waited for, more than they that watch for the morning, had risen indeed. She asked, ' What have you seen?
Seite 341 - ... my body and my spirit. He showed me how much these feelings, when we cherish them within us independently of outward objects, tend as it were to excavate us, and to undermine the whole foundation of our being. "To be active...
Seite 213 - is supernatural, whatever it be, that is either not in the ' chain of natural cause and effect, or which acts on the chain 'of cause and effect in nature, from without the chain.
Seite 328 - I am going to my Father's; and though with great difficulty I got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get them.

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