 | Emory Elliott - 1988 - 1312 pages
...words of Christ be quarantined and canonized as merely another deadly Sacred Text. Emerson deplores the "assumption that the age of inspiration is past, that the Bible is closed," and argues that "the office of a true teacher" is "to show us that God is, not was, that he speaketh,... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 pages
...the soul and declared that redemption should be sought in the soul. "Man is the wonder-worker. . . . The assumption that the age of inspiration is past,...sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology." These opinions, while predictable, were such a scandal to the pious that the lecture proved to be Emerson's... | |
 | Richard R. O'Keefe - 1995 - 252 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... | |
 | Michael A. Meyer - 1995 - 518 pages
...individual soul. In his famous Divinity School Address of 1 838 he noted: "The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past, that the Bible is closed . . . indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology. It is the office of a true... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 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... | |
 | T. R. Wright - 2000 - 296 pages
...life or business of the people' (Emerson 1994: 1o41). Emerson attacks the 'stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past, that the Bible is closed' (1o42). He concludes the address by calling for a new scripture, a new religious literature which will... | |
 | Gary J. Dorrien - 2001 - 534 pages
...assaults on the church's dogmatism. He condemned the boring formalism of church services and the church's "fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man." He quoted his wife Lidian on the wickedness of going to church and himself on the sad strangeness of... | |
 | Sanja Sostaric - 2003 - 364 pages
...to religion ends in the complete rejection of traditional religion: "The stationariness of religion, the assumption that the age of inspiration is past,...sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology" (JMN 5: 492). Genius, whose effects were not restricted to any particular area of human activity, inevitably... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - 2003 - 636 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... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
...and the Bible, could not threaten the truth of the scriptures; that could happen only if one assumed that "the age of inspiration is past, that the Bible is closed"; why, the very fear of the knowledge that Jesus was a man showed "the falsehood of our theology." Applying... | |
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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. 
