Christian Theology (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: struction of this passage by Connybeare and Howson, happily is not sustained by the great majority of either the most ancient or the most modern expositors. That the phrase "pillar and ground of the truth" must be in apposition to the phrase "church of the living God," would seem hardly to admit of a doubt. See Meyer in loco.] The Church neglecting or setting aside the authority of the Scriptures, has always plunged into fanaticism or . superstition; and Scripture, read in contempt of the views of the generations of believers who have studied its meaning and reproduced it in their lives, has always been made to teach another gospel than that of Christ, and in due time has been reduced to the level of any other ancient and by-gone literature. These are numerous, extending to almost every department of human knowledge; complex, the subjects related being as closely interlaced as are the various forces which God employs in the world; and interdependent, inasmuch as the Divine mind and will, represented by Theology, stand at the center of all knowledge and forces, giving unity of meaning to the one and of operation to the other. To sketch even the most obvious of these relations requires careful discrimination. We can here instance those only to which the student of Theology will do well to give special heed. 1. To the Theologies and Mythologies of other religions, in which the nations have blindly groped their way after the true God and a true Theology. (a.) To Hinduism, (Veda- ism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, ) with its monotheism, incarnations and trinities, and its primeval and fallen man1.(