...eat. It presents like no other of Luther’s writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the sinner for the sake of Christ’s meri... ...6 Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians the Galatian churches, Jewish-Christian fanatics moved in, who perverted Paul’s Gospel of man’ s free jus... ...nd every blessing. Just for that the world abhors the Gospel. These Jewish-Christian fanatics who pushed themselves into the Galatian churches after P... ...do not go where the enemies of the Gos- pel predominate. They go where the Christians are. Why do they not invade the Catholic provinces and preach th... ...nce torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever. Only Christians possess this victorious knowledge given from above. These two te... ...ame time that Christ is God. I cannot get over the blindness of the Pope’s theologians. T o imagine that the mighty forces of sin, death, and the curs... ...the Holy Spirit. 128 Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians The Roman theologians teach that no man can know for a certainty whether he stands in...

...s possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless... ...es of two centuries and formulated the creed upon which all the exist- ing Christian churches are based, was one of the most disas- trous and one of t... ...hat the Alexandrine speculations which were then conclusively imposed upon Christianity merit only disrespectful attention at the present time. There ... ...ife of man- kind. After this warning such readers from among the vari- ous Christian churches and sects as are accessible to storms of theological fea... ...y inci- dentally and because it is unavoidable that he attacks doctri- nal Christianity. In a previous book, “First and Last Things” (Constable and Co... ...It is a very childish and unphilosophical set of impulses that has led the theologians of nearly every faith to claim infinite qualities for their dei... ...ion of most honest, simple Christians to-day, was clearly, in spite of the theologians, of a very exalted anthropomorphic personality away somewhere i... ...- tween, let us say, Eusebius of Caesarea and one of Nizam-al- Mulk’s tame theologians. They would be drawn together by the same tribulations; they wo...

...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for the expr...

...ough he never failed to please by the charm alike of natural manner and of Christian courtesy; the same spirit of gentleness and kindness very soon pr... ..., and he was ready to give up all, and content to lead the forlorn hope of Christianity, and perish in the front ranks of the noble army. “And having ... ... different case. Your boy is not fit to come into the com- pany of little Christians! Awful as it is to think of, he is al- ready, at his early age, ... ...a great gift of God, and to be waited for with patience. The motto of “The Christian Year” is very beauti- ful. I sent the roses on T uesday. My best ... ...that what struck him most was the calm balancing of arguments, like a true Christian Judge. Sir John spoke of the great comfort he had in this son, cu... ...nd weighty matters? ‘It seems to me as if men who are in no sense divines, theologians, or well read, speak strongly and use expressions and teach doc...

...Bishop by H. G. Wells “Man’s true Environment is God” J. H. Oldham in “The Christian Gospel” (T ract of the N. M. R. and H.) CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER C... ...aying of his that the aim of socialism—the right sort of socialism —was to Christianize employment. Regardless of suspicion on either hand, regardless... ...fault that we’ve differentiated.” “But you haven’t understood the drift of Christianity,” said the bishop. “It’s just to assert that men are One commu... ...pularity when he brought down his consistent friend, the dear old Princess Christiana of Hoch and Unter, black bonnet, deafness, and all, to open a ne... ...d consequently a persona grata with the royal aunts, and that the Princess Christiana was merely just one of a number of royalties now practically at ... ...f Nicaea, but what did these poor little quibblings and definitions of the theologians mat- ter? He had been worrying about these definitions and quib...

...abroad of that real question which lies below. Essenism means simply this— Christianity before Christ, and consequently without Christ. If, therefore,... ...nism could make good its pretensions, there at one blow would be an end of Christianity, which in that case is not only superseded as an idle repetiti... ...laced by a stolen system; but what replaces the mysterious agencies of the Christian faith? In Essenism we find again a saintly scheme of ethics; but ... ...here is the scheme of mediation? In the Roman church, there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to suspect the romance of “Essenismus... ... a sect elder than Christ) with the originality and heavenly revelation of Christianity. Here is my first point of difference from the Romish objector... ...isguised, it might naturally have arisen. In the real circumstances of the Christian church, when struggling with Jewish persecution at some period of...

... sky, and those blue distant mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at the company of worl... ...an, or demon, or man-demon, was a spy during the persecutions of the early Christians, probably under the Emperor Diocletian, and penetrated into the ... ...le moment’s grace allowed to Memmius, during which, had he been capable of Christian faith and love, he might have knelt before the cross, and receive... ...him, hoping to achieve the glory and satisfaction of converting him to the Christian faith. For the sake of so excellent a result; she had even staked... ...kneel and worship at the holy sites, among which these haunts of the early Christians are esteemed especially sacred. Or, as was perhaps a more plausi... ...potence and outraged, suffering Humanity, combined in one person, than the theologians ever did. This hallowed work of genius shows what pictorial art...

...comparison are wanting: the equality of conditions is more complete in the Christian countries of the present day than it has been at any time or in a... ...ined to make the best of the social lot awarded to them by Providence. The Christian nations of our age seem to me to present a most alarming spectacl... ...o be dissolved, and all the laws of moral analogy to be abolished. Zealous Christians may be found amongst us whose minds are nurtured in the love and... ...y espouse the cause of human liberty as the source of all moral greatness. Christianity, which has declared that all men are equal in the sight of God... ...chy of the House of T udor. The religious quarrels which have agitated the Christian world were then rife. England had plunged into the new order of t... ...eply again, that the principal opinions which constitute belief, and which theologians call articles of faith, must be very carefully distinguished fr...

...upation, and among connections dear to my heart. I should have been a good Christian, a good citizen, a good friend, a good man. I should have relishe... ...l, be reconciled to the bosom of the church, and meet with some charitable Christians, who would make it a point to procure me a situation that would ... ... and (as they assured me) had run through Spain and Italy, em- bracing the Christian faith, and being baptised wherever they thought it worth their la... ...r abjuration; meantime she be- came weary of her cloister, declaring that, Christian or not, she would stay there no longer; and they were obliged to ... ...ligion; in the world he appeared a man of pleasure, in his family he was a Christian, and implanted early in my mind those sentiments he felt the forc... ... War- rens, therefore, was more useful to me on this occasion than all the theologians in the world would have been. She, who brought everything into ... ...s and whey. In this respect physicians and philosophers differ widely from theologians; admitting the truth only of what they can ex- plain, and makin...

...n order to go the next day and make obeisance to the Holy Father as a Most Christian king. “The next day the king being prepared set forth for the 25... ...with flaming brown eyes, and a short and prominent chin, embodied well the Christian faith which brought to the Reformation so many sincere and fanati... ...he Holy Father as an equal. Vain of his eloquence, and one of the greatest theologians of his time, he kept incessant watch over France and Italy by m... ...inutes of a consultation which were hawked about all Germany, in which the theologians declared that force might be resorted to in order to withdraw t... ...without reserve. If you deceive me you will be treated severely. Pagans or Christians, Calvinists or Mo- hammedans, you have my royal word that you sh... ...herine dé Medici in person. That miracle would justly seem impos- sible to Christians as well as to philosophers,” said the little lawyer, resting the... ... but to bathe in the blood which refreshes 285 Balzac her,’ she replied. ‘Christianity, itself the essence of all truth, since it comes from God, was...

...- peared to have received alms, and took their departure. “Some charitable Christian has sent those vagabonds away ,” thought the sculptor, as he resu... ...ors,—he might have lived a century ago, or a thousand years, or before the Christian epoch, for anything that Donatello knew to the contrary, —who had... ...e, and on the pavement of the church around him,—”a sad necessity that any Christian soul should pass from earth without once seeing an antique painte... ...wed from the warm interior of belief, or from its cold and dreary outside. Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Stand... ...potence and outraged, suffering Humanity, combined in one person, than the theologians ever did. This hallowed work of genius shows what pictorial art... ... go, not only the meed of immortality, but the privilege of presiding over Christian altars, and of being worshipped with far holier fervors than whil...

...glish in Judge Mejdell’s “Jus Gentium,” published in English by Olsen’s of Christiania. There is an active League of Nations Society in Dublin, as wel... ...llowed Mr. Burdett Coutts, in support of Mr. Burdett Coutts, with the most Christian disregard of the nasty things Mr. Burdett Coutts had seemed to be... ...e idea of democracy as universal justice, is free from the jealousy of the theologians and great enough for men to unite upon everywhere. I know how w...

...ltaire had done their best and worst with him, profess himself an orthodox Christian, and say and print to the Church of England, with its sin- gular ... ...ale, were to be translated into detail, and become the practical emblem of Christian Sterling on the coast of Sussex in this new age. “It would be no ... ...di- rections, you might have fired a musket through the church, and hit no Christian life. A terrible outlook indeed for the Apostolic laborer in the ... ...triving towards all nobleness; here was ardent recognition of the worth of Christianity, for one thing; but no belief in it at all, in my sense of the... ...elf-con- secrated here, by free volition and deliberate selection, to be a Christian Priest; and zealously struggling to fancy himself such in very tr... ...im. I mean to read the Book through. It seems admitted that the or- thodox theologians have failed to give any sufficient an- swer.—I have also looked...

...l fond of the unscientific method of taking a later religion, in this case christianity, and writing down all apparently coincident parts of belief, a... ... apparently coincident parts of belief, as hav- ing been borrowed from the christian teachings by the Norsefolk, while all that remain they lump under... ...ntury Greenland was colonised from Iceland, and by end of the same century christianity was introduced into Iceland, but made at first little differen... ...ies, but the earlier great harvest of song was never again equalled. After christianity had entered Iceland, and that, with other causes, had quieted ... ...Lucian have similar stories. The Emperor Sigismund con- voked a council of theologians in the fifteenth century who decided that wer-wolves did exist....

...hrough no sin of his own, that caused him to be so unfortunate; and a real Christian and pattern, in spite of outsides, though as true a gentleman as ... ...and per ship—my barque Priscilla; and better men than you left, or I ‘m no Christian.’ Temple said briskly, ‘Thank you, captain.’ ‘You may wait awhile... ...ll thank me, if you won’t. But it’s not thanks I look for: it’s my bounden Christian duty I look to. I reckon a couple o’ stray lambs equal to one los... ... soon after placed a twisted note in my hand. It ran: ‘Miss Goodwin (whose Christian name is Clara) wishes very much to know how it has fared with Mr.... ...borough, who had a heap of manu- script, directed against heretical German theologians, to pack up for publication in his more congenial country: how ... ...at sensation beset me in turn. We shrank oddly from uttering one another’s Christian name. I was the first with it; my ‘Ottilia !’ brought soon after ...

..., and doth hold _500 In secret that the Christian creed Is false, and therefore is much need That I should have a c... ... _510 Far worse than fire’s brief agony As to the Christian creed, if true Or false, I never questioned it: I took it as the ... ...public mind which shook to dust the oldest and most oppressive form of the Christian religion. We owe Milton to the progress and development of the sa... ...tion, but an accident that might be expelled. This also forms a portion of Christianity: God made earth and man perfect, till he, by his fall, ‘Brough... ...ble? CENCI: CENCI: CENCI: CENCI: CENCI: Why miserable?— No.—I am what your theologians call Hardened;—which they must be in impudence, So to revile a ... ...he was no T ory; _565 No Deist and no Christian he;— He got so subtle, that to be Nothing, was all his glory. 23....

...bank in Clayton. We had met first in the “Par- liament” of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Swathinglea; we had found we attended simultaneous... ...eness upon Him, and redeemed Him from all the implications of vin- dictive theologians; she was in truth, had I but perceived it, the effectual answer... ... 14 In the Days of the Comet for blatant unbelief. And at the Y oung Men’s Christian Asso- ciation I presently made the acquaintance of Parload, who t... ...u mean?” “That he’s wrong. I don’t think he proves his case. I don’t think Christianity is true. He knows himself for the pre- tender he is. His reaso... ...in touch with a pretence of mutual deference. The ethi- cal superiority of Christianity to all other religions came to the fore—I know not how. We dea...

...At the heart of Christianity is the atonement, God at one with his creation. But how is this being achieved? Numerous theories have been proposed but none generally accepted. The historic church councils were too busy with the trinity to tur...

...omprehensible.” Although God’s inner nature is a mystery, his actions in creation are open to investigation. Human nature pursues understanding. Some Christians object to the questioning of their preferred atonement theory, viewing such questioning as a challenge to the gospel itself. Despite the fact that Christianity’s central message is of salvation and reconciliation w...

...sacramental satisfaction, and these are appointed by man. 35. They preach no Christian doctrine who teach that contrition is not necessary in those wh... ...ouls out of purgatory or to buy confessionalia. 5 36. Every truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of penalty and guilt, even withou... ...mission of penalty and guilt, even without letters of pardon. 37. Every true Christian, whether living or dead, has part in all the blessings of Chris... ...ion of divine remission. 39. It is most difficult, even for the very keenest theologians, at one and the same time to commend to the people the abunda... ...he people may falsely think them preferable to other good works of love. 42. Christians are to be taught that the pope does not intend the buying of p... ...tend the buying of pardons to be compared in any way to works of mercy . 43. Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor or lends to the... ...l worth with the Cross of Christ, is blasphemy. 80. The bishops, curates and theologians who allow such talk to be spread among the people, will have ...

...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classics S... ...Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ission, in any way. Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ... is an equal opportunity university. Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY ............................................................. ... .............................................................. 7 WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? ........................................................ ... or later to very eminent persons in Roman imperial times, and that modern theologians, far from discrediting it, have very logically affirmed the mir... ...e for theology, whilst the book itself is denounced as spurious by Pauline theologians be- 82 Shaw cause Paul, and indeed all the apostles, are repre... ...simple enough at first as a popular miracle, was not left so simple by the theologians. They began to ask of what substance Christ was made in the wom...

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...l opportunity university. Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANITY Y ... ...NFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM- EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANITY Y ... ...of sun-dials, stealthier than the growth of a forest, are the footsteps of Christianity amongst the political workings of man. Nothing, that the heart... ...the heart of man values, is so secret; nothing is so potent. It is because Christianity works so secretly, that it works so 5 Thomas de Quincey poten... ...so secretly, that it works so 5 Thomas de Quincey potently; it is because Christianity burrows and hides itself, that it towers above the clouds; and... ...uestion, are here found in, what seems to me, the deepest of errors. Great theologians are they, and eminent philosophers, who have presumed that (as ... ... philosophic Christians doubt or deny. b.—Grace: both predisposing [by old theologians called prevenient] and effectual. c.—Prayer considered as ...

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...is time and been born Jews, would have acted precisely as he did. Ortho dox Christians who are tempted to think that those who stoned to death the fi... ...at all, from the most characteristic teachings of Christ. This man, a better Christian in all but the dogmatic sense of the word, than almost any of t... ... of the ostensibly Chris tian sovereigns who have since reigned, persecuted Christianity. Placed at the summit of all the previ ous attainments of h... ...mbody in his moral writings the Chris tian ideal, he yet failed to see that Christianity was to be a good and not an evil to the world, with his duti... ... it seemed to be his duty to put it down. Inas much then as the theology of Christianity did not appear to him true or of divine origin; inasmuch as ... ...stand all that can be said against or for their opinions by philosophers and theologians. That it is not needful for common men to be able to expose a... ...hat it is unsatis factory? If not the public, at least the philosophers and theologians who are to resolve the difficulties, must make themselves fam...

...eek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Liberal Christianity shows it— Optimism as encouraged by Popular Science— The “Mind... ...rieties of Religious Experience ness”— Yoga— Buddhistic mysticism— Sufism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation— Tonic effects of mystic state... ...ows the con- ventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan. His religion has been made for him by others, com... ... original gospel truth than men had ever known in En- gland. So far as our Christian sects today are evolv- ing into liberality, they are simply rever... ...rds I came to understand, that in the Emperor Diocletian’s time a thousand Christians were martyr’d in Lichfield. So I was to go, without my shoes, th... ...matic people who will be the shallow ones, and the worldly minded whom the theologians now call frivolous will be those who are really wise. “In utrum... ...f our organism, the physiologists will tell us, a gift of God’s grace, the theologians say —is either there or not there for us, and there are persons... ...ing God in him by our intention, obedience is easy. But when the text-book theologians marshal collectively all their reasons for recommending it, the... ... to this theme, we could descend upon our subject from above like Catholic theologians, with our fixed definitions of man and man’s perfection and our...

...gainst Indulgences. These were indeed intended as controversial theses for theologians, but at the same time it is well known that Luther was moved by... ...not only for the narrow circle of the Wittenberg congregation, but for the Christian layman in general. In the dedicatory preface Luther lays the grea... ...uther’s biog rapher, acknowledged that he had learned the “rudi ments of Christianity” from it. Even to day this book has its peculiar mission to th... ... also do; but to trust firmly that he pleases God, is possible only for a Christian who is enlight ened and strengthened by grace. That these words ... ...mber can live, work and have a name. From which it further follows that a Christian who lives in this faith has no need of a teacher of good works, ... ...ptive, more than half in despair, and often makes a fool of himself. So a Christian who lives in this confidence toward God, a knows all things, can ...

... Such a conception a proof of ignorance – in Adam – in the Israelites – in Christians. Testimony of the Scriptures in favour of reason and the ratio- ... ...Testament. How the ceremonial law tended to preserve the Hebrew king- dom. Christian rites on a similar footing. What part of the Scripture narratives... ...23) I have often wondered, that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity to al... ...ers have long since come to such a pass, that one can only pronounce a man Christian, Turk, Jew, or Heathen, by his general appearance and attire, by ... ... Platonists and Aristotelians, to which (in order to save their credit for Christianity) they have made Holy Writ conform; not content to rave with th... ...ion. (4) Still as reason, however sound, has little weight with ordi- nary theologians, I will adduce the authority of Scripture for what I here asser...

...se and simple, even all, who hear Of so fell sacrifice. Be ye more staid, O Christians, not, like feather, by each wind Removable: nor think to clean... ...esh it dwelt. In the other little light serenely smiles That pleader for the Christian temples, he Who did provide Augustin of his lore. Now, if thy m... ...ion lies Subjected and supreme. And there was born The loving million of the Christian faith, The hollow’d wrestler, gentle to his own, And to his ene... ... me, call’d on with loud cries; and there In your old baptistery, I was made Christian at once and Cacciaguida; as were my brethren, Eliseo and Moront... ...t, further off from him by far, Than such, to whom his name was never known. Christians like these the Ethiop shall condemn: When that the two assembl... ... Macarius.] There are two of this name enuerated by Mosheim among the Greek theologians of the fourth century, v. i. cent. iv p. 11 ch. 2 9. In t...

...h the simple and the wise, who heard speak of such like observance. Be, ye Christians, more grave in moving; be not like a feather on every wind, and ... ...d its ministry. 20 In the next little light smiles that advo- cate of the Christian times, with whose discourse Augustine provided himself. 21 Now i... ...his History against the Pagans, at the request of St. Augustine, to defend Christianity from the charge brought against it by the Gentiles of being th... ...nastery of St. Victor, at Paris, a mystic of the 12th century; all eminent theologians. 25 Sigier of Brabant, who lectured, applying logic to ques- t... ...ion is subject and subjugates. 9 Therein was born the amorous lover of the Christian faith, the holy athlete, benignant to his own, and to his enemies... ...ud cries, 20 gave me; and in your ancient Baptis- tery I became at once a Christian and Cacciaguida. Moronto was my brother, and Eliseo; my dame came...

...an other qualities of greater name and pretension. Hannah was this woman’s Christian name; and her name and her memory are to me amongst the most hall... ...s of ruffians, prostitutes, felons, stood the description, at full length, Christian and surnames all properly registered, of my Agnes—of her whose ve... ...n some other plea made good by gifts or bribes— some by Jews and others by Christians, perhaps equally Jew- ish. Superadded to these stationary elemen... ...st way to express it at once is by recurring to the case of a young female Christian martyr, in the early ages of Chris- tianity, exposed in the blood... ...vation and ruin. As the dove to her dove-cot from the swooping hawk—as the Christian pinnace to Christian batteries, from the bloody Mahometan corsair... ... power of augury amongst the Pagans, (concerning which the most eminent of theologians have held very opposite theories,) one thing is certain, that, ...

...3. SCENE 3. SCENE 3. SCENE 3. SCENE 3. The Daemon tempts Justina, who is a Christian. DAEMON: DAEMON: DAEMON: DAEMON: DAEMON: Abyss of Hell! I call on... ... _175 Makes human will an article of trade; Or he was changed with Christians for their gold, And dragged to distant isles, where to the sound... ...onsiderable accomplishments, and the mother of a numerous family, whom the Christian religion has goaded to incurable insanity. A parallel case is, I ... ...civilization. The narrow and un- 162 Volume 3 enlightened morality of the Christian religion is an aggrava- tion of these evils. It is not even until... ...iscarded. I have heard, indeed, an ignorant collegian adduce, in favour of Christianity, its hostility to every worldly feeling! (The first Christian ... ... have the strongest possible con- viction of His existence. But the God of Theologians is inca- pable of local visibility. 2d, Reason. It is urged tha... ...of of the Christian religion depends on the in- fluence of the Holy Ghost. Theologians divide the influence of the Holy Ghost into its ordinary and ex...

...vine Comedy of Dante Hell 77 Not with the Saracens or Jews (his foes All Christians were, nor against Acre one Had fought, nor traffic’d in the So... ...It seems to have been a common opinion among the Jews, as well as among many Christians, that the general judgment will be held in the valley of Josap... .... c. 23. v. 84. Nor against Acre one/Had fought.] He alludes to the renegade Christians, by whom the Saracens, in Apri., 1291, were assisted to recove... ...., 1291, were assisted to recover St.John d’Acre, the last possession of the Christians in the Iloly Land. The regret expressed by the Florentine anna... ...ones approacheth: now, E’en now, mayst thou discern the pangs of each.” Christians and proud! O poor and wretched ones! That feeble in the mind’s... ... Macarius.] There are two of this name enuerated by Mosheim among the Greek theologians of the fourth century, v. i. cent. iv p. 11 ch. 2 9. In t...

...m Lohn, oder wohl mit schweren Zinsen, wird’s einst zur¨ uckgefordert. ‘Good Christian peo ple, here lies for you an invaluable Loan; take all heed t... ...o my own person, nowhere occurs. Again, what may the unchristian rather than Christian ‘Diogenes’ mean? Did that reverend Basket bearer intend, by suc... ...n by act and daily reverent look and habitude, her own simple version of the Christian Faith. Andreas too attended Church; yet more like a parade duty... ...th a small, ill chosen Library; and then turned loose into it eleven hundred Christian striplings, to tumble about as they listed, from three to seven... ... there, I indeed learned, better perhaps than the most. Among eleven hundred Christian youths, there will not be wanting some eleven eager to learn. B... ... be fitly entitled King.” “Well, also,” says he elsewhere, “was it written by Theologians: a King rules by divine right. He carries in him an authority...

...e carried to the font, and there baptized, according to the manner of good Christians. Immediately thereafter were appointed for him seventeen thousan... ...world; and wherefore some have bigger noses than others. By the faith of a Christian, said Eudemon, I do wonderfully dote and enter in a great ecstasy... ...aid to lose their victuals, their manchots, and good fat pottage. All true Christians, of all estates and conditions, in all places and at all times, ... ...ur princes, and to build up our own greatness upon the loss of our nearest Christian Brother. This imitation of the ancient Herculeses, Alexanders, Ha... ... stz rinq jald de vins ders cordelis bur jocst stzampenards.’ Do you speak Christian, said Epistemon, or the buffoon language, otherwise called Pateli... ...t afterwards to the Sorbonne, where he maintained argument against all the theologians or divines, for the space of six weeks, from four o’clock in th...

...of imitation, and the more so, as some- thing similar was commended by the Christian doctrine of patience. While on the subject of these family diseas... ...ich he gave 70 Autobiography me to understand that he was a good Catholic Christian. “Young gentleman, how came you here, and what are you doing?” he... ...etween Lutherans and Calvinists. But here he got in a controversy with the theologians: one Dr. Benner of Giessen, in particular, wrote against him. V... ...ect. The girls, moreover, were pretty, and were far from displeased when a Christian lad, meeting them on the sabbath in the Fischerfeld, showed himse... ...ound in all the faculties,—nay, in all classes and trades. In this way the theologians could not help inclining to what is called natural religion; an... ...ons, and in somewhat harsh and coarse touches sportively express that most Christian maxim, Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone.... ... form of an earthly nour- ishment. This import is the same in all kinds of Christian churches: whether the sacrament is taken with more or less submis...

... after a while the wheel is reversed, and man is left to himself. Like other theologians and philosophers, Plato relegates his explanation of the prob... ...tion must re- main unanswered.’ Similar questions have occupied the minds of theologians in later ages; but they can hardly be said to have found an a... ...tly to enlarge a Platonic thought which admits of a further appli- cation to Christian theology . Here are suggested also the distinctions between God... ...ing all things. Such a conception has sometimes been en- tertained by modern theologians, and by Plato him- 36 Statesman self, of the Supreme Being. ... ...ed at the conception of a person who was also a law . Nor is it easy for the Christian to think of God as wisdom, truth, holiness, and also as the wis...

...ostles had adopted the same method of teach- ing, and had all built up the Christian religion on the same foun- dation, Paul would have had no reason ... ...ther books held sacred by many. (50) But these councils, both Pharisee and Christian, were not composed of prophets, but only of learned men and teach... ...ake men not learned but obedient. (44) In spite of this the general run of theologians, when they come upon any of these phrases which they cannot rat...

...ms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, mer... ...nto her head to console me!” thought Dolly. “All consolation and counsel and Christian forgive ness, all that I have thought over a thousand times, a... ... irritated today? It’s really ludi crous; her object is doing good; she’s a Christian, yet she’s always angry; and she always has enemies, and always... ... always angry; and she always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.” After Countess Lidia Ivanovna another frien... ...family, Madame Stahl had smiled contemptuously, which was not in accord with Christian meekness. She noticed, too, that when she had found a Catholic ... ...ance—would have set 444 Anna Karenina to work to study all the classics and theologians and tragedians and historians and philosophers, and, you know...

...n him and them. The story is told, for instance, that in the early days of Christianity one such novice, failing to fulfil some command laid upon him ... ...see you at 47 Dostoevsky once. And you will go to her, of course. It is a Christian duty .” “I have only seen her once,” Alyosha protested with t... ...ity, to be set up as the direct and chief aim of the future development of Christian society!” “Perfectly true,” Father Paissy , the silent and le... ...point of my article lies in the fact that during the first three centuries Christianity only existed on earth in the Church and was nothing but the Ch... ...as nothing but the Church. When the pa- gan Roman Empire desired to become Christian, it inevita- bly happened that, by becoming Christian, it include... ...oo—the Je- suits, at any rate. I have read it myself in the works of their theologians. ‘Hast Thou the right to reveal to us one of the mysteries of t...

...ligion, to compelling others to think as they do: we generally see, I say, theologians anxious to learn how to wring their inventions and sayings out ... ... any certain conclusion on either: the one is denied by the oldest sect of Christians, the other by the oldest sect of Jews. (76) Indeed, if we consid... ...agreement one with another, and that they were consummate philosophers and theologians; for he would have them to have based their conclusions on the ...

...ction of Bohemia. Book II. State of the Empire. — Of Europe. — Mansfeld. — Christian, Duke of Brunswick. — Wallenstein raises an Imperial Army at his ... ...y connected with it, vain and powerless would have been the ar- guments of theologians; and the cry of the people would never have met with princes so... ...peri- enced under their Romanist suzerains. The rancour and animosities of theologians infused a poison into every occurrence, however incon- siderabl... ...ited, and singly, little feared, adopted a bolder language. Through Prince Christian of Anhalt, they laid their com- mon grievances and demands before... ...distinctions of religion; equality of rights should be guaran- teed to all Christian churches. They hear that a foreign force has been invited into th... ...ous career of Maximilian. The Bohemian army, commanded by the brave Prince Christian of Anhalt, re- treated to the neighbourhood of Prague; where, und... ...the North at this time to be respected. Under the long and active reign of Christian IV., Denmark had risen into impor- tance. The personal qualificat...

...nchman, for instance— would have set to work to study all the classics and theologians and tragedians and historiaris and philoso- phers, and, you kno... ... assertion to the contrary, she was firmly persuaded that he was as much a Christian as she, and indeed a far better one; and all that he said about i... ...ot give way to the feeling of which you spoke—being ashamed of what is the Christian’s highest glory: *he who humbles himself shall be exalted*. And y... ...re, as it was soothing to her to believe, in that she almost turned him to Christianity—that is, from an indifferent and apathetic believer she turned... ...sure, she read the follow- ing letter in French: “Madame la Comtesse, “The Christian feelings with which your heart is filled give me the, I feel, unp... ...therefore I beg you to interpret your husband’s re- fusal in the spirit of Christian love. I pray to Almighty God to have mercy on you. Countess Lidia...

...n other stages of existence, which is further developed in the Republic. And Christian thinkers, who have ventured out of the beaten track in their me... ...rewards and punishments may be compared favourably with that per- version of Christian doctrine which makes the everlasting punishment of human beings... ...truth. On every side he is met by the world, which is not a n abstraction of theologians, but the most real of all things, being another name for ours... ...ion and the reversal of human life is of course verbal only, yet Plato, like theologians in other ages, argues from the consistency of the tale to its...

...he- ists, who have destroyed everything! For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christia... ...n, I believe, of three and twenty, who repented and was con- verted to the Christian faith at the very scaffold. This Richard was an illegitimate chil... ...here. And in prison he was immediately surrounded by pastors, mem- bers of Christian brotherhoods, philanthropic ladies, and the like. They taught him... ...oo—the Je- suits, at any rate. I have read it myself in the works of their theologians. ‘Hast Thou the right to reveal to us one of the mysteries of t...

...r. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelior... ...oes not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establish- ments and forms some vigor of wild vi... ... wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the sta... ...eal greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nor drove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery. As much virtue as there is,... ...ent on the part of the narra- tor that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of ab- horrence.... ...in any essential dependence of the material world on thought and volition. Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the Spiritual meaning o...

...r? She realised it, though standing out- side in the matter. She was not a Christian in the ac- cepted sense; she did not believe that God had ever wo... ...uman face. London is religion’s opportu- nity—not the decorous religion of theologians, but anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be ...