History of Ethics Within Organized Christianity (Classic Reprint)

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This Jesus appears, however, in history, primarily as a new inspiration and vital force. We have no detailed and exhaustive account of his activity and no exact summary of his actual doc trine. For a biography Of him we must depend upon the imperfect memories of loving interpreters, whose materials are given in such a way as to preclude accurate chronological rear rangement. At best such reordering is hypothetical, however attractive. Honest and devout men and women gave their ex planations Of what Jesus had taught, and interpreted him to the eager numbers who, after his death, became his followers. These questions they answered with a large freedom, SO that it is now often quite impossible to say how far we have the words Of Jesus and how far the commentary of the disciple.1 In some cases, as in the case Of Paul, the claim was advanced for inward Spiritual authority to speak in the name of Jesus even after his death.

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