Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors

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American Unitarian association, 1876 - 512 pages

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Contents

Importance of this Distinction
15
The Orthodox and Liberal Parties in New England
17
CHAPTER II
19
Orthodoxy assumed to be the Belief of the Majority
20
The Doctrine of Essentials and Nonessentials leads to Rome
22
Fallacy in this Orthodox Argument
23
The three Tendencies in the Church
26
The Party of Works
28
The Party of Emotion in Christianity
30
The Faith Party in Religion
31
Error in the Orthodox Principle
35
Faith Knowledge Belief Opinion
37
THE ORTHODOX IDEA OF NATURAL AND REVEALED RELIGION OR NATURALISM AND SUPERNATURALISM 1 Meaning of Natural an...
43
The Creation Supernatural
44
The Question stated
45
Supernatural Argument from Human Freedom
47
Supernatural Events not necessarily Violations of Law
48
Life and History contain Supernatural Events
50
No Conflict between Naturalism and Supernaturalism
51
Further Errors of Orthodox Supernaturalism Gulf between Chris tianity and all other Religions
54
Christianity considered unnatural as well as supernatural by being made hostile to the Nature of Man
57
CHAPTER IV
58
The different Explanations of the Miracles of the Bible
61
Criticism on these Different Views of Miracles
66
Miracles no Proof of Christianity
68
But Orthodoxy is right in maintaining their Reality as Historic Facts
74
Analogy with other Similar Events recorded in History
76
Miracle of the Resurrection Sceptical Objections
80
Final Result of this Examination
85
CHAPTER V
87
The Difficulty Antiquity of the World and Age of Mankind
89
Basis of the Orthodox Theory of Inspiration 04
94
Inspiration in general or Natural Inspiration
98
Christian or Supernatural Inspiration
101

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Page 132 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 173 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead ; Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
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