Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors

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American Unitarian Association, 1875 - 512 páginas
 

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Importance of this Distinction
15
The Orthodox and Liberal Parties in New England
17
CHAPTER II
19
Orthodoxy assumed to be the Belief of the Majority 4 Heterodoxy thus becomes sinful
20
The Doctrine of Essentials and Nonessentials leads to Rome
22
Fallacy in this Orthodox Argument
23
The three Tendencies in the Church
26
The Party of Works
27
The Party of Emotion in Christianity
30
The Faith Party in Religion 11 Truth in the Orthodox Idea
31
Error in the Orthodox Principle
35
Faith Knowledge Belief Opinion
37
THE ORTHODOX IDEA OF NATURAL AND REVEALED RELIGION OR NATURALISM AND SUPERNATURALISM 1 Meaning of Natural an...
43
The Creation Supernatural
44
The Question stated
45
Supernatural Argument from Human Freedom
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Supernatural Events not necessarily Violations of Law
48
Life and History contain Supernatural Events
50
No Conflict between Naturalism and Supernaturalism
51
Further Errors of Orthodox Supernaturalism Gulf between Chris tianity and all other Religions
54
Christianity considered unnatural as well as supernatural by being made hostile to the Nature of Man
57
CHAPTER IV
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The different Explanations of the Miracles of the Bible
61
Criticism on these Different Views of Miracles
66
Miracles no Proof of Christianity
68
But Orthodoxy is right in maintaining their Reality as Historic Facts
74
Analogy with other Similar Events recorded in History
76
Miracle of the Resurrection Sceptical Objections
80
Final Result of this Examination
85
CHAPTER V
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The Difficulty Antiquity of the World and Age of Mankind 39
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Basis of the Orthodox Theory of Inspiration
94
Apparent Contradictions both in Scripture and Reason in Regard
95
Inspiration in general or Natural Inspiration
98
Christian or Supernatural Inspiration
101
Inspiration of the Scriptures especially of the New Testament Scriptures
106
Authority of the Scriptures
112
The Christian Prepossession
122
Conclusion
128
CHAPTER VI
130
Orthodox and Liberal View of Man as morally diseased or other wise
133
Sin as Disease
134

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Página 316 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
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Página 143 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

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