What is Christianity?: Lectures Delivered in the University of Berlin During the Winter-term, 1899-1900G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1901 - 322 strani |
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Stran 31 - He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none, and he that hath meat, let him do likewise
Stran 57 - The Lord's Prayer; (2) that utterance, "Rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you ; but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven"; (3) the saying, "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered " ; (4) the utterance, "What shall it profit a man if
Stran 117 - exercise love. Faust is right: Labour which is labour and nothing else becomes an aversion. We long for the streams of living water, and for the spring itself from which those waters flow : Man sehnt sich nach des Lebens Bächen, Ach ! nach des Lebens Quelle hin.
Stran 56 - contrast with the impulsive and stirring elements; although it is just they that are informed with a special strength. But the fact that the whole of Jesus' message may be reduced to these two heads—God as the Father, and the human soul so ennobled that it can and does unite with him
Stran 16 - it includes stories of miracles, is a piece of prejudice. In the third place, we are firmly convinced that what happens in space and time is subject to the general laws of motion, and that in this sense, as an interruption of the order of Nature, there can be no such things as " miracles.
Stran 67 - an abiding disposition towards the good, and that out of which everything that is good springs and grows. "Forgive us our trespasses even as we forgive them that trespass against us " is the prayer at once of humility and of love. This, then, is the source and origin of the love of one's neighbour;
Stran 9 - OUR first section deals with the main features of the message delivered by Jesus Christ. They include the form in which he delivered what he had to say. We shall see how essential a part of his character is here exhibited, for " he spoke as one having authority and not as the Scribes.
Stran 10 - Sixty years ago David Friedrich Strauss thought that he had almost entirely destroyed the historical credibility not only of the fourth but also of the first three Gospels as well. The historical criticism of two generations has succeeded in restoring that credibility in its main outlines.
Stran 151 - religion was an actual experience, and involved the consciousness of a living union with God; (iii.) the leading of a holy life in purity and brotherly fellowship, and the expectation of the Christ's return in the near future. By keeping these three factors in view we can grasp the distinctive