Old and New Unitarian Belief (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...Testament had been written by one man, it could not have been more self-consistent and coherent than it actually is. But that gulf which now divides his happy confidence from the results of modern scholarship was mercifully hidden from his view. Like a great chasm in the earth, it has been made and widened little by little by the action of forces quiet as the frost and rain. All through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries we find Unitarian scholars repeating the arguments of Socinus, and many of their orthodox neighbors borrowing them to use against the Deist and the infidel. And, since Unitarians have had no further use for them, they--the orthodox--have often used them against these, as if they--the Unitarians--did not know exactly how much they are worth. There is no better statement of the argument for Christianity as a supernatural revelation than Dr. Channing's 'Evidences of Christianity, ' and it agrees substantially with the argument of Socinus. He is " not ashamed of the gospel of Christ," because it makes a reasonable appeal to his intelligence. It is reasonable to expect a revelation, and Christianity comes to us accredited as one by unmistakable signs and wonders. "We have," he says, "abundant means of access to its earlier stages." "No age of antiquity is so thoroughly understood " as that in which Christianity arose. It is true that for Socinus there was not a doubt that 'Matthew, ' 'Mark, ' 'Luke, ' and 'John' were written by the men whose names they bear, not a doubt to meet and throw. For Channing there were many doubts to meet, but none that left a shade of doubt on his own mind. He found no traces in them of a later time than that of the apostles. But the Gospels, thus timely and...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...Testament had been written by one man, it could not have been more self-consistent and coherent than it actually is. But that gulf which now divides his happy confidence from the results of modern scholarship was mercifully hidden from his view. Like a great chasm in the earth, it has been made and widened little by little by the action of forces quiet as the frost and rain. All through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries we find Unitarian scholars repeating the arguments of Socinus, and many of their orthodox neighbors borrowing them to use against the Deist and the infidel. And, since Unitarians have had no further use for them, they--the orthodox--have often used them against these, as if they--the Unitarians--did not know exactly how much they are worth. There is no better statement of the argument for Christianity as a supernatural revelation than Dr. Channing's 'Evidences of Christianity, ' and it agrees substantially with the argument of Socinus. He is " not ashamed of the gospel of Christ," because it makes a reasonable appeal to his intelligence. It is reasonable to expect a revelation, and Christianity comes to us accredited as one by unmistakable signs and wonders. "We have," he says, "abundant means of access to its earlier stages." "No age of antiquity is so thoroughly understood " as that in which Christianity arose. It is true that for Socinus there was not a doubt that 'Matthew, ' 'Mark, ' 'Luke, ' and 'John' were written by the men whose names they bear, not a doubt to meet and throw. For Channing there were many doubts to meet, but none that left a shade of doubt on his own mind. He found no traces in them of a later time than that of the apostles. But the Gospels, thus timely and...

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October 2012

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October 2012

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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64

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978-1-154-99019-5

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9781154990195

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1-154-99019-2



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