The Syrian ChristHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 425 pages |
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... Western readers of the Bible is , in my judgment , to enter sympathetically and intelligently into the atmosphere in which the books of the Scriptures first took form : to have real intellectual , as well as spiritual , fel- lowship ...
... Western readers of the Bible is , in my judgment , to enter sympathetically and intelligently into the atmosphere in which the books of the Scriptures first took form : to have real intellectual , as well as spiritual , fel- lowship ...
Page 5
... Western world , whenever I open my Bible it reads like a letter from home . Its unrestrained effusiveness of expression ; its vivid , almost flashy and fantastic imagery ; its naïve narrations ; the rugged unstudied sim- plicity of its ...
... Western world , whenever I open my Bible it reads like a letter from home . Its unrestrained effusiveness of expression ; its vivid , almost flashy and fantastic imagery ; its naïve narrations ; the rugged unstudied sim- plicity of its ...
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... western slopes of Mount Lebanon some thirty years ago . Nor do I mean to assert or even to imply that the Western world has never succeeded in know- ing the mind of Christ . Such an assertion would do violent injustice , not only to the ...
... western slopes of Mount Lebanon some thirty years ago . Nor do I mean to assert or even to imply that the Western world has never succeeded in know- ing the mind of Christ . Such an assertion would do violent injustice , not only to the ...
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... Western world , especially in the home of the Anglo - Saxon race . The language of the Scriptures , the mentality and the habits of life which form the setting of their spiritual precepts , and the mystic atmos- phere of those precepts ...
... Western world , especially in the home of the Anglo - Saxon race . The language of the Scriptures , the mentality and the habits of life which form the setting of their spiritual precepts , and the mystic atmos- phere of those precepts ...
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... Western readers of holy writ to stumble , and which rob those truths for them of much of their rich- ness . By sheer force of genius , the aggressive , systematic Anglo - Saxon mind seeks to press into logical unity and creedal ...
... Western readers of holy writ to stumble , and which rob those truths for them of much of their rich- ness . By sheer force of genius , the aggressive , systematic Anglo - Saxon mind seeks to press into logical unity and creedal ...
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