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... accepted There remained : ... 194 ( i . ) The ultimate relation of matter to God : Dualistic solutions : Basilides ' Platonic theory the basis of the later doctrine , though not at once recognized 194-198 ( ii . ) The Creator's contact ...
... accepted There remained : ... 194 ( i . ) The ultimate relation of matter to God : Dualistic solutions : Basilides ' Platonic theory the basis of the later doctrine , though not at once recognized 194-198 ( ii . ) The Creator's contact ...
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... accepted it . It was impossible for Greeks , educated as they were with an education which penetrated their whole nature , to receive or to retain Christianity in its primitive sim- plicity . Their own life had become complex and arti ...
... accepted it . It was impossible for Greeks , educated as they were with an education which penetrated their whole nature , to receive or to retain Christianity in its primitive sim- plicity . Their own life had become complex and arti ...
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... accepted . Those who read the Old Testament without accepting Christianity , found in its symbols prefigurings , not of Christianity , but of events recorded in the heathen mythologies . The Shiloh of Jacob's song was a foretelling of ...
... accepted . Those who read the Old Testament without accepting Christianity , found in its symbols prefigurings , not of Christianity , but of events recorded in the heathen mythologies . The Shiloh of Jacob's song was a foretelling of ...
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... accepted method of inter- pretation enabled the Apologists to use it with great effect . It became one of the chief evidences of Chris- tianity . Explanations of the meaning of historical events and poetical figures which sound strange ...
... accepted method of inter- pretation enabled the Apologists to use it with great effect . It became one of the chief evidences of Chris- tianity . Explanations of the meaning of historical events and poetical figures which sound strange ...
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... acceptance of " the literal grammatical and his- torical sense " as the true sense of Scripture . The allegorical method of interpretation has survived the circumstances of its birth and the gathered forces of its opponents . It has ...
... acceptance of " the literal grammatical and his- torical sense " as the true sense of Scripture . The allegorical method of interpretation has survived the circumstances of its birth and the gathered forces of its opponents . It has ...
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Page 170 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page xxiv - The Sermon on the Mount is the promulgation of a new law of conduct; it assumes beliefs rather than formulates them ; the theological conceptions which underlie it belong to the ethical rather than the speculative side of theology; metaphysics are wholly absent. The Nicene Creed is a statement partly of historical facts and partly of dogmatic inferences ; the metaphysical terms which it contains would probably have been unintelligible to the first disciples ; ethics have no place in it. The one belongs...
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Page 253 - We thank thee, holy Father, for thy holy name, which thou hast caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.
Page 302 - We thank thee, our Father, for the holy vine of David thy servant, which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.