The Christian RevelationCurts & Jennings, 1898 - 107 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abiding abstract abstractly academic admit ancient ancient history answer Asiatic religions Biblical Biblical study Book of Esther Books of Chronicles Buddhism causality central ideas cerning certainty character Chris Christ Christian revelation Christian teach Christian thought Church cient claim closet discussion closet logic conception concerning concrete matters consider difficulties Divine pur doctrine Dogma dogmatic elation error ethical exegesis fact faith fancy furnish God's revelation grace hard-and-fast Hindu hint historical movement Holy Spirit human ical illumina immanent inerrancy insight inspiration interpre interpretation Jesus knowl language ligious literature manifest meaning mechanical ment metaphors method mind miracle misconception moral nature ness never non-Christian ourselves parture perfect Pharisee phenomena pose practical problem prophets purpose question race rational righteousness sacred books Scrip Scriptures sense speculative standard standpoint stract supernatural Theism theology theory things thor tian tical tion trust truth tures vine Word
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 38 - The fountain light of all our day, A master light of all our seeing. It is a great spiritual force at the head of all the beneficent and inspiring forces which make for the upbuilding of men and the bringing in of the kingdom of God. If we would know some things we must turn to nature, or to history, or to psychology ; but if we would know what God is, and what he means for men, we must come to the Christian revelation, especially as completed in Jesus Christ. Here only do we find the Father adequately...
Seite 14 - SUCH as sit in darkness and the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron...
Seite 91 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Seite 17 - Readers who have been led to believe that the Vedas of the ancient Brahmans, the Avesta of the Zoroastrians, the Tripitaka of the Buddhists, the Kings of Confucius, or the Koran of Mohammed are books full of primeval wisdom and religious enthusiasm, or at least of sound and simple moral teaching, will be disappointed on consulting these volumes.
Seite 95 - ... of the Catholic faith, especially when their object belongs to the field of purely natural science. We can now apply these preliminary remarks in answering first, the comprehensive indictment against the Church which is attributed to the University of Boston. In Boston University it is taught that " Bible texts have been arrayed against astronomy, geology, political economy, philosophy, geography, religious toleration, anti-slavery, mercy to decrepit old women called witches, anatomy, medicine,...
Seite 17 - I confess it has been for many years a problem to me, aye, and to a great extent is so still, how the Sacred Books of the East should, by the side of so much that is fresh, natural, simple, beautiful, and true, contain so much that is not only unmeaning, artificial, and silly, but even hideous and repellent.
Seite 56 - That is to say, he regards the abstract question as to the inerrancy of the Scriptures as practically irrelevant, holding that the value of the Bible, like that of all knowledge, must be determined " not by abstract theories of what It must be, but rather by study of what it proves itself to be in the religious life of the world.
Seite 50 - ... original and always the primary function of government — democracy "folded up," with no serious protest from any quarter. The ultimate reasons for the inability of democratic machinery to meet serious issues raise the problem of the political intelligence and the moral qualities of human beings. It would be easy to make out a strong case for the view that the requisite qualities do not exist in human nature at all, that people generally neither have them nor want them, and do not admire them...
Seite 44 - Revelation," he very truly says : " The presence of inspiration is discernible in the product, but the meaning and measure of inspiration cannot be decided by abstract reflection, but only by the outcome. What inspiration is, must be learned from what it does. We must not determine the character of the books from the inspiration, but must rather determine the nature of the inspiration from the books
Seite 69 - In both religion and philosophy there has been a deal of abstract theorizing about the ultimate standard of truth or authority, as if there were some 'simple standard which, by external application, would reveal the truth. But there is no such standard.