History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation.
by his sentence, that "in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love ...
discoveries and inventions, the enlargement of commerce and wealth.^14 Nor was it near as bad as the state of things which Luthe ...
Christians leads legitimately to the universal kingship of free, self-governing citizens, whether under a monarchy or under a re ...
The Reformation is represented as the mother of Rationalism both by Rationalistic and by Roman Catholic historians and controver ...
religion; it was matured in its various phases after the middle of the eighteenth century on the Continent, especially in Protes ...
In such trials and temptations he clung all the more mightily to the Scriptures and to faith which believes against reason and h ...
English and American theology, and fortified it against Rationalism as well as against Romanism. His orthodoxy and discipline co ...
of canonicity.^23 He thus placed the material or subjective principle of Protestantism above the formal or objective principle, ...
He could at first find no sense in the mysteries of the Apocalypse and declared it to be "neither apostolic nor prophetic," beca ...
authorship, but not the canonicity, of Hebrews.^34 He is disposed to assign Second Peter to a pupil of Peter, who wrote under th ...
Even the classical purity of style and the integrity of the traditional text, including the Massoretic punctuation, were asserte ...
are spirit, and are life." "The flesh profiteth nothing." Criticism and speculation may for a while wander away from Christ, but ...
ยง 10. Protestantism and Denominationalism.^39 The Greek Church exists as a patriarchal hierarchy based on the first seven oecume ...
the hands of selfish and rapacious princes, were deeply deplored by Melanchthon, who would have consented to the restoration of ...
The controversies among the Protestants in the sixteenth century roused all the religious and political passions and cast a gloo ...
All these Churches of Great Britain and the Continent were transplanted by emigration to the virgin soil of North America, where ...
of Christian life must be realized. The past cannot be undone; history moves zig-zag, like a sailing vessel, but never backwards ...
hand all persecuted religions, sects, and parties are advocates of toleration and freedom, at least for themselves. Some of the ...
"The church does not thirst for blood "^44 but excommunicates the obstinate heretic and hands him over to the civil magistrate t ...
on the other hand, the correct principle that "no man can believe against his will."^48 And he expressly discouraged the inflict ...
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