 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1910 - 542 pages
...Address" (pp. 148, 149), beginning " In such high communion let us study the grand strokes of rectitude." The fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man indicates with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology.' The inexhaustible soul is insulted... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 pages
...positive, the ritual, because it monopolises what is general and common. It assumes, he complains, that the age of inspiration is past ; that the Bible is closed ; that God " was " rather than " is " — that He " spake," not that He " is speaking." He complains... | |
 | Duren James Henderson Ward - 1922 - 342 pages
...country ; it comes out of the memory and not out of the soul." Again: "The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past,...sufficient clearness the falsehood of our Theology." * For examples, see the dates added at the top of pages in modern Bibles by authority of Archbishop... | |
 | Duren James Henderson Ward - 1922 - 340 pages
...it comes out of the memory and not out of the soul." Again: "The stationariness of religion; the i assumption that the age of inspiration is past, that...sufficient clearness the falsehood of our Theology." * For examples, see the dates added at the top of pages In modern Bibles by authority of Archbishop... | |
 | 1903 - 912 pages
...upon his principles, but upon his tropes." Again there is permanent wisdom in Emerson's disregard of the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man ; but the meaning of the perfect humanity of Jesus Emerson does not consider. Here is another appreciation... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch - 1974 - 280 pages
...Christ much as the Orientals and Greeks worshipped their demigods: 'The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past,...indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology.'11 And he rises to almost hymnic rapture when he proclaims (p. Jesus Christ belonged to the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...amid miracles. All men bless and curse. He saith yea and nay, only. The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past,...sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology. It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake. The... | |
 | David B. Parke - 1957 - 180 pages
...amid miracles. All men bless and curse. He saith yea and nay, only. The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past,...sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology. It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that he speakcth, not spake. .... | |
 | Anthony John Harding - 1985 - 208 pages
...renewal of the spirit that filled the biblical prophets and poets. "The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past,...sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology. . . . The true Christianity, — a faith like Christ's in the infinitude of man, — is lost" (DSA,... | |
 | Conrad Wright - 1986 - 164 pages
...amid miracles. All men bless and curse. He saith yea and nay, only. The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past,...sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology. It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake. The... | |
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The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past, that the Bible is closed; the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man — indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology. 
