Christian Dogmatics, Tr. by J.W. Watson and M.J. Evans (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ... the Greek, that of Attic wisdom; and in the Hebrew, the Spirit of God," and with Augustine we repeat, "Mira profunditas, mi Deus, mira profunditas." Let any one read the same history--that of Joseph, for instance, which has called forth the admiration of Voltaire--first in the Bible and then in the Koran, and he will perceive what an entirely different spirit meets us in the former; and how this spirit, too lofty for human creation, everywhere from beginning to end, in the midst of the most perfect freedom, manifests the fairest harmony. At every step we must exclaim, The Bible is a truly human book, and yet, at the same time, something more than any other human book; and even in the history of the most violent assaults made upon it, the old proverb is but confirmed, " The more they amuse themselves in smiting me, the more hammers they use up in doing it.' Result, "The secret of the equanimity of our modem theologians, even amidst the perils of critical operations, lies precisely in the clear recognition of the fact that faith in the inspiration of the Canon is not the essential condition--not even the first step necessary--in order to come to faith in Christ; that with this faith in the Scriptures, the Christian faith is not yet by any means given, or even its foundation laid; finally, that the moral, religious, actual--not merely intellectual--process of life, fails not, for any one who has uprightly and constantly yielded himself to its influence, to lead--as to life and full satisfaction in Christ, so also--to the recognition of the normative and Divine authority of the documents of Divine revelation" (Dorner.) Compare the dissertation of D. F. Van Heijst on the Canon of Eusebius (Hague Soc, 1834); on the whole subject of Canon and Holy Scripture, that...