Download or read book Democracy and the Church Classic Reprint written by Samuel George Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy and the Church For a long time I have wondered why it is that many intelligent persons who accept the genetic View of the development of life have no open-mindedness for the genetic view of history. They recognize that there are certain periods in the history of life when old environments give way, new forms of life appear showing a fresh summertime, and sustaining heart and hope. This class of persons may recognize that there is a history of art, and if they do not glory in the pre-raphaelite as Beauty's last word or accept the impressionist's school as the final despair of the creative gods, they do see continuity in Art; they do recognize that every time must create its own artistic forms in harmony with the terms and the conditions of its life. Literature in successive periods may flower out in the great secular bibles; the works of Homer, zeschylus, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe. But even these men are social products as well as social forces, and literature has its continuity, its progress and its invincible relationships. 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.
Download or read book Democracy in the Church Classic Reprint written by Edgar L. Heermance and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy in the Church Democracy Is a sacred word among us in America, not only in the State but in the Church. In American Protestantism, more than forty percent of the churches have Democracy as the basis of their polity. If we include indirect democracy, nearly all our churches may be classed as democratic. It is this theme. Democracy in the Church, which we set before us. We shall study it from the standpoint of one of the democratic bodies, the Congregationalists. For many years there has been no treatise on Congregational polity. Statements of polity have appeared, and histories, but no fresh attempt to draw democratic principles from their source and lead them, life-giving, across the fields of church activity. Dexter, Ross and Ladd served a previous generation. But the years since their works were published have been full of change. The sciences of Exegesis and Church History have made great advance, and with this advance comes the need of readjustment in the theories of church polity. New problems have arisen in our denominational life. The present air is filled with clamorous voices, demanding a more centralized polity, or warning us that any step in that direction is a sale of our birthright. "We must become more compact," say some, "if we are to do our work in the Kingdom. Consolidation is the tendency of the age." "What is wanted," says another, "is not a change of system but a change of heart." 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.
Download or read book Democracy and the Church written by Frederick Alfred Agar and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democratic Christianity written by Francis J. Mcconnell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democratic Christianity: Some Problems of the Church in the Days Just Ahead When the Founder of Christianity declared it further to be the duty of every man to love his neigh bor as himself he set up another pillar of democracy. If the first utterance puts upon the separate life a great dignity the second ennobles all impulses to ward closer fellowship among men. All that is needed to keep this double doctrine back of the demo cratic movement as a compelling force is an insist ence upon the duty of bringing more and more of the acts of the individual under the conception of divine service and more and more persons under the term neighbor. The efficacy of the religion of Jesus in such progress is beyond all question. 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.
Download or read book The Christian Democracy written by John Mcdowell Leavitt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Christian Democracy: A History of Its Suppression and Revival When we turn from State to Church we find three theories of supreme power, corresponding to mon archy, aristocracy, and democracy. Where is ec clesiastical sovereignty? Is it an autocracy in the pope? Is it an oligarchy in bishops? Is it a de mocracy of all believers, including clergy and laity, and whom we will call the people? Before answer ing these questions the three theories of ecclesias tical sovereignty should be more fully stated. I. The papal claim.-early as A. D. 496 Ge lasius asserted for himself all political and pontifical power. His successors proclaimed their right to rule the world. Centuries before Hildebrand and Innocent III and Boniface VIII this was the uni form view of Roman pontiffs as implied or expressed in the Vatican Decree of Pio Nono. The papal system is an autocracy. It vests all sovereignty in its pontiff. He is source of power and grace. These, through him'alone, flow to bishops, and from bish ops to priests, and from priests to people. 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.
Download or read book Science of Theocratic Democracy Classic Reprint written by Du Bois Henry Loux and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Science of Theocratic Democracy Simultaneously, no small part of the thoughtful population of the civilized world that cannot be classified as belonging to the Church have been contributing the ideals of pure reason to the new conception of democracy. 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.
Download or read book Christian Democracy for America Classic Reprint written by David D. Forsyth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Christian Democracy for America The Old Frontier and the New Grandfather's Rural Church A Modern Church in a Rural Community Mohammedan Children at J ohnstown, Pennsylvania. Children of. The Nations at Ellis Island A Negro Neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio Sunday School at East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania An Alaskan Family A Daughter of Hawaii The Water Wagon in Porto Rico The Gospel in the Open - Little Italy, New York City. For Country and for God - Flag Raising at Bethel Ship, norwegian-danish Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York. 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.
Download or read book The Religion of Democracy Classic Reprint written by Charles Ferguson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Religion of Democracy I perceive how deep down in the infinite are the springs of history. And I am reassured of the love of God. 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.
Download or read book A History of the Reformation written by Elias Benjamin Sanford and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Democracy Its Promises and Perils Classic Reprint written by Arnold White and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English Democracy Its Promises and Perils The Church of England, torn with intestine strife, like other owners of property, is the object of ungovern able greed, and the secular spirit of an ideal acknow ledging neither God nor master, is ceasing to hold in reverence a priesthood it no longer dreads. Neither reward nor punishment beyond the grave retains its ancient power to deter men from evil, and to impel them towards good citizenship. A new social morality has accompanied the intro duction of a new political economy. The socialism of Christ, which consisted in sharing with others, is re placed by attempts to legalise spoliation; and moral sanction is claimed for these efforts by spiritual leaders who, having lost control over the masses in the domain of theology, seek to recover influence over them in the dust and passion of party politics. Such are some of the conflicting currents through which English democracy is passing. Racial common sense; the lives and examples of men who still prefer character to notoriety the increasing influence of good women; the infusion of Jewish mind and thrift; and the gradual recovery of reasoned conviction that the main lessons of our English Bible are true, and cannot be ignored with impunity by men or nations, are among the more hopeful elements in the prospect now opening before us. 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.
Download or read book Chartism and the Churches written by Harold Underwood Faulkner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chartism and the Churches: A Study in Democracy In the preparation of this essay the author is largely indebted to Professor James T. Shotwell, under whose direction the work was done and from whose criticisms the thesis has profited; to Professor Edwin R. A. Selig man, who put at his disposal the Chartist collection in his private library; to Professor William Walker Rock well of Union Theological Seminary, who read the thesis and made numerous suggestions; and to his Father, Professor John Alfred Faulkner of Drew Theological Seminary. 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.
Download or read book A History of the Reformation Classic Reprint written by Elias B. Sanford and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Reformation This Volume Is Affectionately Inscribed To My Friends, In Every Part of the United States, With Whom For Many Years I Was Engaged in Work that Laid The Foundation and Organized the Federal Council Of The Churches of Christ in America Representing a Communicant Membership of Nearly Eighteen Millions and Tracing Their Origin to The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. 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.
Download or read book Democratic Methodism in America written by Lyman Edwyn Davis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democratic Methodism in America: A Topical Survey of the Methodist Protestant Church Revelation, the spiritual Democracy upon which the Church itself is founded, and upon which, finally and forever, the Civil government of the whole world must be established. 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.
Download or read book Religious Education and American Democracy Classic Reprint written by Walter Scott Athearn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Religious Education and American Democracy Chapters I, II, and III were published dur ing the past year as the Malden Leaflets. These leaflets have been revised and enlarged for the purposes of this volume. A portion of Chapter V has previously appeared in the columns of Religious Education. 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.
Download or read book Democracy and Liberty Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by William Edward Hartpole Lecky and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy and Liberty, Vol. 2 There is one other subject connected with religious liberty that is likely to occupy a large share in the attention Of the democracies of the future. It is the position and the aggressive policy Of the Catholic Church. Of all the judg ments Of the great thinkers Of the eighteenth century, none have been more signally falsified than those which they formed of the future Of the Catholic Church. With scarcely an exception, they believed that its sacerdotal, superstitious, intolerant, and ultramontane elements were silently fading away that it was taking more and more the character Of a purely moralising influence; and that all danger Of antago nism between it and the civil power had passed for ever. The delusion lasted for several years after the French Revolution, and it may be very clearly traced in the speeches and writings Of the chief advocates Of Catholic Emancipation. Many Of them lived to acknowledge their mistake. There is a characteristically cynical saying attributed to Lord Melbourne, that on that question all the d d fools in England predicted one set Of things, and all the sensible men in England another set, and that the d d fools proved perfectly right, and the sensible men perfectly wrong.' I have been told on excellent authority, that Macaulay once expressed in more decorous language a very similar view. I do not mean to take the white sheet, ' he is te ported to have said, ' for I acted honestly and conscientiously. 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.
Download or read book Browning and Whitman written by Oscar L. Triggs and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Browning and Whitman: A Study in Democracy The volume now given to the public is an expansion of a paper read before the London Browning Society at their meeting of May 27th of the present year. The purpose of the paper was to point out the essential democracy of Robert Browning. The intent of the present work is to suggest the need of an exegesis of modern prophetical literature. And the endeavour is therefore made in the case of Browning and Whitman to identify life and literature. The result will be, for a few readers, not incurious. It is found that some poems which prove well in lecture-rooms and parlours prove not at all in the open air, in the streets and workshops, in contact with the varied life of man. The thoughts which prompt the several essays may be stated as follows: God is a living will, who is realised by men and women in their practical activities and creations. To realise the will of God, by whatever institutional means of State or church or school, is the purport of democracy. Democracy cares supremely for the soul; this, before all laws, forms, institutions, policies, economics, is the one thing worthy of conserving. For the purposes of world-profession, art can no longer be separated from life. Art is the union of the real and the ideal, it is matter receiving spirit, it is spirit taking form. Art is a witness of ideality; at the same time it shows the possibility of the realisation of highest thought. 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.
Download or read book Religion and American Democracy Classic Reprint written by Roy Franklin Nichols and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Religion and American Democracy In View of the prevailing controversies and rivalries in the world it is appropriate to attempt a definition of the relationship between religion and American democracy. Such a definition is here presented as nearly as possible in the words used by the leaders and formulators of the ideas and by the generations of citizens of the United States whose thoughts and actions have been controlled by them. 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.