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Excerpt from Redemption: The Christian Doctrine Set in the Light of History
Among the religions of the world Christianity claims to stand pre-eminent as the Religion of Redemption. It will be our task to explain this conception, and to Vindi cate its essential truth by relating it to the context of living Christian experience.
While the problem involved is of high speculative moment, it is equally important for the practical religious life. We have been accustomed to draw a sharp dividing Iine between speculative and practical problems, and Often shut our eyes to their necessary relation in the sphere of religion. Thus we are inclined to dissociate the fact or reality of salvation from the theory or explan ation of it and when confused by warring theories we Often comfort ourselves with the thought that fact and theory are two things, and that the one may be realized apart from the other. Just as we can exercise our power of vision without any knowledge of the visional process, so we can exercise our religious faculty without re?ecting on the implications Of our faith. We may be redeemed unto God though we have no Clear conception of the conditions and processes of redemption, and we may assimilate the Spirit of Christ without possessing any theory of His person. That is so far true. Yet the distinction between fact and theory, between experience and metaphysics, is by no means so radical as it seems.
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Among the religions of the world Christianity claims to stand pre-eminent as the Religion of Redemption. It will be our task to explain this conception, and to Vindi cate its essential truth by relating it to the context of living Christian experience.
While the problem involved is of high speculative moment, it is equally important for the practical religious life. We have been accustomed to draw a sharp dividing Iine between speculative and practical problems, and Often shut our eyes to their necessary relation in the sphere of religion. Thus we are inclined to dissociate the fact or reality of salvation from the theory or explan ation of it and when confused by warring theories we Often comfort ourselves with the thought that fact and theory are two things, and that the one may be realized apart from the other. Just as we can exercise our power of vision without any knowledge of the visional process, so we can exercise our religious faculty without re?ecting on the implications Of our faith. We may be redeemed unto God though we have no Clear conception of the conditions and processes of redemption, and we may assimilate the Spirit of Christ without possessing any theory of His person. That is so far true. Yet the distinction between fact and theory, between experience and metaphysics, is by no means so radical as it seems.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
J. Dick Fleming
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ISBN - 9780267471768
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Page Count - 321
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Contributors
Author
J. Dick Fleming
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ISBN - 9781331402398
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Page Count - 323
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