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... religious views were first stated with fulness is Literature and Dogma ( 1873 ) . It formed the second leaf of a triptych in which he wrote down the whole law of the religious life as he knew it : St. Paul and Protestantism ( 1870 ) and ...
... religious views were first stated with fulness is Literature and Dogma ( 1873 ) . It formed the second leaf of a triptych in which he wrote down the whole law of the religious life as he knew it : St. Paul and Protestantism ( 1870 ) and ...
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... Paul and Protestantism . To the theo- logical expert belong the right and the duty of deter- mining the value of this Pauline study as a piece of exegetics , and it is no mean compliment to Arnold the man of letters that the really ...
... Paul and Protestantism . To the theo- logical expert belong the right and the duty of deter- mining the value of this Pauline study as a piece of exegetics , and it is no mean compliment to Arnold the man of letters that the really ...
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... Paul had enjoyed , thanks to Protestantism , as the " Christian doctor par excellence " was nearing a close . Arnold held precisely the contrary opinion . It was Protestantism which was coming to an end , or at least the Protestantism ...
... Paul had enjoyed , thanks to Protestantism , as the " Christian doctor par excellence " was nearing a close . Arnold held precisely the contrary opinion . It was Protestantism which was coming to an end , or at least the Protestantism ...
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... Paul had never had justice done to him , and that both to his reputation and ... Protestantism has overlaid them , will have an influence in the future ... Protestantism , her doctrine contained much more than the specifically Protestant ...
... Paul had never had justice done to him , and that both to his reputation and ... Protestantism has overlaid them , will have an influence in the future ... Protestantism , her doctrine contained much more than the specifically Protestant ...
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... Paul and the scheme which Puritanism has con- structed with them professes to be St. Paul's scheme . " ' It is here ... Protestantism's besetting fault : ' What in St. Paul is secondary and subordinate Puritanism has made primary and ...
... Paul and the scheme which Puritanism has con- structed with them professes to be St. Paul's scheme . " ' It is here ... Protestantism's besetting fault : ' What in St. Paul is secondary and subordinate Puritanism has made primary and ...
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Page 52 - There is the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty. The power of conduct is the greatest of all.
Page 14 - Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.
Page 168 - Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost...
Page 23 - It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords.
Page 18 - I say that the English reliance on our religious organisations and on their ideas of human perfection just as they stand, is like our reliance on freedom, on muscular Christianity, on population, on coal, on wealth, — mere belief in machinery, and unfruitful...
Page 143 - Religion, if we follow the intention of human thought and human language in the use of the word, is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit] up by feeling ; the passage from morality to religion is made when to morality is applied emotion. And the true meaning of religion is thus not morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Page 14 - There is a view in which all the love of our neighbour, the impulses towards action, help, and beneficence, the desire for removing human error, clearing human confusion, and diminishing human misery, the noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we found it...
Page 98 - ... the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners...