Christianity And The Ideal Of Humanity In Old Times And New
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Christianity And The Ideal Of Humanity In Old Times And New
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Author : John Stuart Blackie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Christianity And The Ideal Of Humanity In Old Times And New written by John Stuart Blackie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Christian life categories.
Christianity And The Ideal Of Humanity In Old Times And New
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Author : John Stuart Blackie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-24
Christianity And The Ideal Of Humanity In Old Times And New written by John Stuart Blackie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-24 with History categories.
The Ideal Of Humanity In Old Times And New
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Author : John Stuart Blackie
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2019-01-25
The Ideal Of Humanity In Old Times And New written by John Stuart Blackie and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-25 with Religion categories.
Excerpt from The Ideal of Humanity: In Old Times and New Jove is not Jove merely as a strong launcher of the thunderbolt, but as the assertor of justice, the avenger of perjury, and the pro tector of innocence. Nay, so far is mere special greatness of any description from giving a man claim to the praise of a truly great man, that, as we daily see, there is a strong tendency in the cultivation of any prominent specialty to defraud the other capacities that belong to a well-accoutred human creature, and to disturb the balance of his manhood. Thus it happens that the strong point in a man's professional exercise becomes a weakness in his human character his favourite virtue, like a pampered child, becomes his prominent weakness; the ex aggerated presentment of one feature destroys the fair proportions, in which the beauty of an aesthetical whole consist's and in this way your mere lawyer, for instance, becomes an expert intellectual fencer, your mere poet a blower of splendid soap-bubbles or a colourist of clouds, and your mere parson a bundle of sacerdotal conceit. Let us say, therefore, that a great man is a man who, while in the exercise of his special capacity soaring as high above common men as an eagle above a barn-door fowl, is deficient in no function that makes a man a man. He is in all things essentially and broadly human, and achieves in the exercise of his one special talent the highest excellence, as Shakespeare did in the drama, only by the social atmosphere which he breathes, and the human sympathies which he cultivates. 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.
The Ideal Of Humanity In Old Times And New
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Author : John Stuart Blackie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-12-06
The Ideal Of Humanity In Old Times And New written by John Stuart Blackie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-06 with categories.
Ancient Ideals
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Author : Henry Osborn Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
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Battling The Gods
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Author : Tim Whitmarsh
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2016-02-02
Battling The Gods written by Tim Whitmarsh and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with Religion categories.
How new is atheism? In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities. Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by those who prevail, and the Age of Faith mostly suppressed the lively free-thinking voices of antiquity. Tim Whitmarsh brings to life the fascinating ideas of Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; and Epicurus and his followers. He shows how the early Christians came to define themselves against atheism, and so suppress the philosophy of disbelief. Battling the Gods is the first book on the origins of the secular values at the heart of the modern state. Authoritative and bold, provocative and humane, it reveals how atheism and doubt, far from being modern phenomena, have intrigued the human imagination for thousands of years.
This Tragic Gospel
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Author : Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-07-23
This Tragic Gospel written by Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-23 with Religion categories.
This Tragic Gospel suggests that the "Gospel" of John intended to supplant the first three gospels and succeeded in gaining undue influence on the early churches. This study focuses on the tragic moment when Jesus prays for deliverance from his impending death in the garden of Gethsemane. Ruprecht contends that John rewrote this scene in order to convey a very different dramatic meaning from the one reflected in Mark's gospel. In John's version, not only did Jesus not pray to be spared, he actually mocked this prayer, embracing his imminent demise with godlike confidence. Ruprecht believes that this dramatic reinterpretation undermined the tragedy of Jesus's death as Mark imagined it and so paved the way for the development of a kind of Christianity that focused far less on compassion in the face of human suffering. John's Jesus offers the faithful food so that they will never hunger, water so that they will never thirst, and the promise of a world in which no faithful person ever sheds a tear. Mark's Christians do suffer, but they witness to suffering and death differently...with compassion. Mark's Christ suffers, like all Christians after him, but he embodies a tragic hope in the promise of a faith shored up by love and compassion.
Heaven And Hell
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Author : Bart D. Ehrman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-03-23
Heaven And Hell written by Bart D. Ehrman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-23 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Over half of Americans believe in a literal heaven, in a literal hell. Most people who hold these beliefs are Christian and assume they are the age-old teachings of the Bible. Ehrman shows that eternal rewards and punishments are found nowhere in the Old Testament, and are not what Jesus or his disciples taught. He recounts the long history of the afterlife, ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh up to the writings of Augustine, focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers. Ehrman shows that competing views were intimately connected with the social, cultural, and historical worlds out of which they emerged. -- adapted from jacket
How Human Is God
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Author : Mark S. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2014-07-07
How Human Is God written by Mark S. Smith and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-07 with Religion categories.
Walter Cardinal Kasper has written, “It is time, it is the right time, to speak of God.” This book invites readers to use their God-given ability to work through important questions that many people have about God today: Why is God so angry in the Bible? Is the biblical God male or female (or what)? Who is Satan? Why do people suffer? By exploring the Bible’s answers to these and other biblical questions, people can come to understand better their living and loving God.
Ancient Ideals
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Author : Henry Osborn Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Ancient Ideals written by Henry Osborn Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Civilization categories.