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... ideal so high that no church and no state can claim , with any pretence to truth , to have really incorpo- rated that ideal . 1 Wellhausen , J .: " Israelitische und jüdische Geschichte , " 4th ed . , Berlin , 1901 , p . 388 . If we ...
... ideal so high that no church and no state can claim , with any pretence to truth , to have really incorpo- rated that ideal . 1 Wellhausen , J .: " Israelitische und jüdische Geschichte , " 4th ed . , Berlin , 1901 , p . 388 . If we ...
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... ideal of life . And the transforming power of that ideal is no longer a matter of humble faith , but of historic experience . Indeed the history of the ethics of Christianity is the history of the influence of that great personality and ...
... ideal of life . And the transforming power of that ideal is no longer a matter of humble faith , but of historic experience . Indeed the history of the ethics of Christianity is the history of the influence of that great personality and ...
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... Christian ethics , nor can there be any such until human experience is completely under the sway of the Christian ideal . At the same time we hope to show that there are steady approaches 6 HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS.
... Christian ethics , nor can there be any such until human experience is completely under the sway of the Christian ideal . At the same time we hope to show that there are steady approaches 6 HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS.
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... ideal set before us as a formal principle , and that our task is the history of these approaches . IV . Strangely enough , the history of Christian ethics has had no adequate treatment by an English - writing student . The two volumes ...
... ideal set before us as a formal principle , and that our task is the history of these approaches . IV . Strangely enough , the history of Christian ethics has had no adequate treatment by an English - writing student . The two volumes ...
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... ideal . In conjunction with the oriental and Egyptian notes , which appear also in Plato and are more and more apparent in Neoplatonism , we find the temper of the age from which Christianity sprang despondent as it looks out on human ...
... ideal . In conjunction with the oriental and Egyptian notes , which appear also in Plato and are more and more apparent in Neoplatonism , we find the temper of the age from which Christianity sprang despondent as it looks out on human ...
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Page 61 - Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man ; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.
Page 448 - ... the true ground of morality; which can only be the will and law of a God, who sees men in the dark, has in his hands rewards and punishments and power enough to call to account the proudest offender.
Page 434 - First. That the blood of so many hundred thousand souls of protestants and papists, spilt in the wars of present and former ages, for their respective consciences, is not required nor accepted by Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace, Secondly.
Page 462 - Tis not solely in poetry and music, we must follow our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy. When I am convinc'd of any principle, 'tis only an idea, which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.
Page 434 - It is the will and command of God that, since the coming of his Son the Lord Jesus, a permission of the most Paganish, Jewish, Turkish, or anti-christian consciences and worships be granted to all men in all nations and countries: and they are only to be fought against •with that sword which is only, in soul matters, able to conquer: to wit, the sword of God's Spirit, the word of God.
Page 416 - It sufficeth, therefore, that nature and Scripture do serve in such full sort, that they both jointly, and not severally either of them, be so complete, that unto everlasting felicity we need not the knowledge of any thing more than these two may easily furnish our minds with on all sides.
Page 434 - An inforced uniformity of Religion throughout a Nation or civil State, confounds the Civil and Religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
Page 163 - Et cum radius ex sole porrigitur, portio ex summa; sed sol erit in radio, quia solis est radius, nee separatur substantia sed extenditur (vgl.
Page 61 - Judge not, and ye shall not be judged : condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned : forgive, and ye shall be forgiven : give, and it shall be given unto you : good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Page 434 - God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state; which inforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civill Warre, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisie and destruction of millions of souls.