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Page ix
... Ritschl's great work on Justification and Reconciliation . It would not be fair to make Ritschl responsible for all that I have written . Considerable portions are independent of Ritschl , in certain parts I have ventured to disagree ...
... Ritschl's great work on Justification and Reconciliation . It would not be fair to make Ritschl responsible for all that I have written . Considerable portions are independent of Ritschl , in certain parts I have ventured to disagree ...
Page x
... Ritschl's contention which is worth their thoughtful and sober consideration . The system of one , concerning whom it could be said The joy of preaching the gospel entire and alone has been awakened by no theologian of the past dec ...
... Ritschl's contention which is worth their thoughtful and sober consideration . The system of one , concerning whom it could be said The joy of preaching the gospel entire and alone has been awakened by no theologian of the past dec ...
Page xii
... Ritschl's work is undoubtedly epoch - making . To quote once more from the distin- guished historian of the modern Church - himself not altogether a friendly critic : " For a vast num- ber , who in the age of Darwin had lost courage for ...
... Ritschl's work is undoubtedly epoch - making . To quote once more from the distin- guished historian of the modern Church - himself not altogether a friendly critic : " For a vast num- ber , who in the age of Darwin had lost courage for ...
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... Ritschl calls " value - judgments . " Their operation will re- quire some further explanation . It may be laid down as a general truth that in no act of attentive reasoning is the intellect alone operative . An act of the pure intellect ...
... Ritschl calls " value - judgments . " Their operation will re- quire some further explanation . It may be laid down as a general truth that in no act of attentive reasoning is the intellect alone operative . An act of the pure intellect ...
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... I had nothing to do ? It is evident , however , that there is a valuable truth to which the doctrine of original sin gives imperfect expression . Ritschl expresses this truth by means of the RELIGIOUS DETERMINATION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE . 35.
... I had nothing to do ? It is evident , however , that there is a valuable truth to which the doctrine of original sin gives imperfect expression . Ritschl expresses this truth by means of the RELIGIOUS DETERMINATION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE . 35.
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Page 120 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Page 108 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 94 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 120 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief That passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could maintain, Nowhere, dominion o'er the enlightened spirit Whose meditative sympathies repose Upon the breast of Faith. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness.
Page 16 - To spend uncounted years of pain, Again, again, and yet again, In working out in heart and brain The problem of our being here ; To gather facts from far and near, Upon the mind to hold them clear, And, knowing more may yet appear, Unto one's latest breath to fear The premature result to draw — Is this the object, end and law, And purpose of our being here ? THE SHADOW'.
Page 56 - And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Page 21 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Page 95 - He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment ; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Page 162 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 50 - Most men eddy about Here and there — eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die Perish; - and no one asks Who or what they have been, More than he asks what waves, In the moonlit solitudes mild Of the midmost Ocean, have swell'd, Foam'd for a moment, and gone.