Download or read book Religion a Criticism and a Forecast Classic Reprint written by G. Lowes Dickinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Religion a Criticism and a Forecast This, then, is my first point; and it is one of great importance, because it affects the Whole position of the Churches. For, unless there is such a thing as revelation, in the sense of a distinct and peculiar avenue to truth, open exclusively to the members of the priesthood of a particular religious organization, such organization can claim no unique privilege as a teacher of doctrine, however useful it may be as a moral or social influence. Once it is admitted that religious truth is attainable, if at all, only by the method of science, it must be conceded also that the notion of a Church With a revelation of divine truth is as absurd as the notion of a mathematical society with a revelation of mathematical truth. Truth, of whatever kind it be, may originate any where, and be communicable everywhere. 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 a Criticism and a Forecast written by G. Lowes Dickinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Religion a Criticism and a Forecast The chapters that follow were originally published as articles in the Independent Review, and are reprinted here by permission. I have left them substantially in the form in which they first appeared, for I do not feel that I am at present in a position to improve them. But perhaps I may make my point clearer by a few words of introduction. My main object has been to raise, definitely and unequivocally, the question of the relation of religion to knowledge. I have urged that there is only one method of knowledge, that of experience and legitimate inference from experience. And while freely admitting, and even insisting upon, the importance of every kind of experience as material for analysis and discussion, I have argued that any truth that is to be elicited from such experience must be elicited by the method of science, in the broad and proper sense of the term. 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 Renascent Christianity a Forecast of the Twentieth Century written by Martin K. Schermerhorn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Renascent Christianity, a Forecast of the Twentieth Century: In the Light of Higher Criticism of the Bible, Study of Compartive Religion and of the Universal Prayer for Religious Unity Explanatory of the general title is the additional one, A Forecast of the Twentieth Century. Forecast implies fore sight: and foresight means power to foretell or to prophesy. In this sense this volume is a prophecy of the hind Of Christianity that will prevail (or begin to prevail) in the Twentieth 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 Studies of Religious History and Criticism Classic Reprint written by M. Ernest Renan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies of Religious History and Criticism The account of M. Renan's life and labors has been care fully prepared by Mr. Henri barrisse, of New York, a gentleman whom a long and intimate acquaintance with all M. Renan's works, an admiration of his genius, and a sym pathy with his character, render peculiarly competent for the task. Should this volume be greeted with welcome, other books from the pen of this great master of the modern French school of criticism may be offered to the public. 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 Higher Criticism Classic Reprint written by Dyson Hague and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Higher Criticism How is it, then, that the Higher Criticism has become identified in the popular mind with attacks upon the Bible and the supernatural character of the Holy Scriptures? The reason is this. No study perhaps requires so devout a spirit and so exalted a faith in the supernatural as the pur suit of the Higher Criticism. It demands at once the ability of the scholar, and the simplicity of the believing child of God. For without faith no one can explain the Holy Scriptures, and without scholarship no one can investigate historic origins. 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 Renascent Christianity a Forecast of the Twentieth Century written by Martin K. Schermerhorn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Renascent Christianity, a Forecast of the Twentieth Century: In the Light of Higher Criticism of the Bible, Study of Compartive Religion and of the Universal Prayer for Religious Unity It is with this hope that all will bid God-speed to this potent new volume." 2. - "This volume called 'Renascent Christianity,' is written with prophetic earnestness. It is a plea for a return to the ' truth as it is in Jesus.' Its plea is based upon the novel ground that his teachings were eclectic and resumed in their simplicity all that was best in the world's sacred scriptures. This idea suggests that Christianity is aplrroma containing all that is best in all the other great religions of the world. The author's spirit is essentially catholic and irenic, and invites the cooperation of all liberal-minded people of whatever creed. lie is very stern in his indictment of those ' reversions,' as he calls them, that have changed the character of Christianity from its original purity. Would not 'corruptions' be a better word than ' reversions'? More bent on driving home his message than on making a literary impression, he has drawn liberally on many writers for the confirmation of his principle. The patience and the diligence that have gone into the structure of the book cannot be praised too much, and I sincerely trust that they will meet with their reward in a wide and cordial recognition of the spirit and the purpose of his work." 3. - "The subject of the book is one which must command the interest of all men who are in earnest about religion. The care, and reverence, and scholarly training with which the author has treated it will deserve respect and, it seems to me, interest among all faithful and conservative scholars." 4. - "This is a brave, true, manly piece of work. Brave - because it is so out-spoken as almost certainly to displease those who care chiefly for conformity and quiet. True - so true in its intents and purposes as to silence all questions of entire intellectual agreement. Manly-in that its breadth of sympathy is as wide as the world and excludes no child of the Heavenly Father. Whether it is really the original Christianity or not this author so earnestly portrays, it is something so fine and sweet that all loving hearts will wish its purpose may be realized. I welcome its clear challenge to intellectual as well as moral seriousness. Give us all this earnestness, this conservatism, this divine and all-inclusive sympathy and we may courageously 3rd cheerfully lift up the cry-' The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand," 5. - " I respond with gratitude and 'God-speed.' So far as I gather from your line of thought and of argument, it seems to me the defense of a thesis to which the corrupters of the Religion of Jesus will find it difficult to make an answer." 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 Immortality Classic Reprint written by G. Lowes Dickinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Religion and Immortality Though the essays were written at different times, the same point of view runs through them all. And readers who were interested in a previous book by the same author Religion: a Criticism and a Forecast may perhaps be glad to have this volume as a sup plement, dealing, in a similar spirit, more particularly with the question of the survival of death. 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 That Monster the Higher Critic Classic Reprint written by Marvin Richardson Vincent and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from That Monster the Higher Critic The story very well illustrates one aspect of the popular attitude towards Biblical criticism. Upon the settled faith and tranquil content of a large body of Christians, breaks the cry, The higher criticism has broken loose! It is charging, head on, with smoking nostrils, against the Bible! It means destruction to the faith once delivered to the saints. Meanwhile few stop to ask, What is higher criticism, anyway? The majority run; that is, they evade the question with some such irrelevant platitude as The old Bible is good enough for me. A few more determined souls, never for a moment doubting that higher criticism, whatever it may mean, is something deadly, set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, and solemnly affirm that Higher Criticism must be exterminated and the higher critics suppressed. 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 Failure of the Higher Criticism of the Bible Classic Reprint written by Emil Reich and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Failure of the Higher Criticism of the Bible Wheedle and coax him into Catholicism, who patted him literally on the cheek and meta phorically on the back; thinking, as the King did, that if Casaubon, whom the world regarded as the mirror of all wisdom, could be gained as a convert, Protestantism in France might be extinguished much more easily. And when Casaubon was weary of France, was there not a warm welcome for him in England? James I, who could never see what he had in Bacon, was too delighted to have a Casaubon and to pay him well for the interchange of philological gabble. Meanwhile James left Shakespeare without recognition, so that to-day, there be ing little known about the great poet, Shake speare bids fair to be treated as a myth by latter-day historians. Why should we Speak of Bentley, whose acute scholarship, expended in ingenious emendations of Horace, won him honor and renown, although today, as we are told by M. Salomon Reinach, out of his hun dreds of emendations of Horace only half-a dozen meet with the acceptance of scholars? Heyne, the great critic of texts, was made an oracle and listened to with awe by the whole of Europe, was envied by Goethe, who burned to become a Heyne II, whereas Lessing was left to languish in obscurity on the miserable pit14 The Failure of the Higher Criticism. 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 Higher Criticism written by S. R. Driver and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Higher Criticism: Four Papers Asserted that even the most generally accepted con clusions of the Higher Criticism are contradicted by archaeology: but our readers must rest assured that this is not the case: such statements rest uniformly upon some misapprehension either of the grounds upon which critics rest their conclusions, or of the bearing of the facts of archaeology upon them.* It need only be added, lastly, that in what has been said, both in this Preface and in the papers which follow, -except in one or two places where the contrary will be self-evident, - the Old Testament alone has been held in view. With regard to the New Testament, it may be sufficient to observe that, as has been pointed out below (p. The very different conditions under which the writings of the New Testament were produced, and especially the relatively short interval of time separating them from the period of our Lord's life upon earth, make it to our minds impossible that the application to it of the methods of the Higher Criticism (in the legitimate sense of the expression), though it may alter our view of the origin and strue ture of some of the documents concerned, should ever affect appreciably the historical evidence for all the leading facts of our Lord's life, or for the vital truths of Christianity. S. R. D. 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 Bible and Modern Criticism Classic Reprint written by Bettex Bettex and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Bible and Modern Criticism It is undeniable that the universe, including ourselves, exists. Whence comes it all? For any clear-thinking mind there are only three possibilities. Hither the universe has existed always, it produced itself, or it was created by a Divine, a Supreme Being. The Universe Not Eternal. The eternity of the universe is most clearly disproved by its evolution. From a scientific point of view that hypothesis is now discredited and virtually abandoned. Astronomers, physicists, biologists, philosophers, are beginning to recognize more and more, and men like Secchi, Dubois-Rey-mond, Lord Kelvin, Dr. Klein and others, unanimously affirm that creation has had a beginning. 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 Higher Criticism written by Robert F. Sample and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Higher Criticism: An Address Nearly half a century later there arose Ferdinand Christian Baur, the originator of the Tubingen School, who caught much of his inspiration as a scholar and critic from Eichhorn, and was accounted by his con temporaries a man of exceptional gifts and attain ments. Like Eichhorn he denied miracles. Assum ing the impossibility of any departure from natural law, he entered, only to vitiate, the whole field of his research. He created theological distinctions in the Epistles of Paul and of Peter, which were the creation of his own fertile brain, deprecated the supernatural element of both, and pronounced the religious zeal of great leaders of religious thought simply the fervor of speculation and the pride of Opinion. 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 Modern Criticism Or the New Theology written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern Criticism; Or the New Theology: The Battle of the Critics OF late years many eminent Writers have so ques tioned the accuracy of the literal sense of Scripture, upon critical and scientific grounds, as to weaken the faith of many in its divine authority, and to lead them to view a large portion thereof as a Jewish, and therefore now a bygone, superstition. The necessity for this criticism has been thus urged upon us.' It is certain, says Dr. Colenso, that in this age of ours every part of the New Testament as well as the Old, will be subject to a close and searching criticism. We cannot, if we would, escape this trial of our faith for God, our God and Father, has called us to it. As plainly as in the days of the Reformation men were called to brace up their minds for a mighty struggle between the powers of light and the powers of darkness, so surely, ' if we read the signs of the times, the like struggle is coming now, nay, rather, is come upon us. (natal Sermons, p. 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 Higher Criticism Cross Examined written by Frederick Davis Storey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Higher Criticism Cross-Examined: An Appeal and a Warning He would especially express his obligations to' his friend, the Rev. M. H. Pogson, D. D., of New York, a stalwart defender of the old faith, but for whose warm encouragement and dogged insistence this book, such as it is, would never have been completed. F. D. 5. 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 Glance at the Higher Criticism Classic Reprint written by Meade Creighton Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Glance at the Higher Criticism Prof. Cheyne expresses the hope that through criticism a transformation in the theology of the church may be effected; and Dr. Briggs confessed, many years ago, that the Higher Criticism of the Bible had "brought about in his mind a different conception in every department of theology." The most authoritative and most representative exponents of the new criticism are of the rationalistic school, and they do not hesitate to ascribe to those we call sacred writers, who claim to speak in the name of the Lord and as moved by the Holy Spirit, mistakes ignorance, blunders, fraudulent methods, and sometimes deceit. As Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, recently said, speaking of the iconoclastic critic of the day: "To him the Bible appears merely as a sort of crazy quilt of untrue history, distorted science, weak poetry, impractical morality and vague foreshadowings of the unknown and unknowable." The setting of the different books, their unit character, their place in the historical development of the people, and their relation to the periods when the different religious and ethical teachings were given - that these are not at all as they seem. Of many of the books it is claimed they are but patchwork and conglomerates, fragments by different writers of far separated times pieced together, and although finally brought under the supervising and editing hand of some redactor, or a succession of redactors, yet often very awkwardly done. In what they consider the work of "rightly dividing the word of truth," they claim ability to discriminate in the authorship, not only of different parts of a book, but of a chapter, and of a single verse or sentence even; and in a fine critical sense, and nicety of distinction, they assign to different imaginary writers "each his portion in due season" through the centuries of Jewish history. 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 Struggle for Life written by John Langtry and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Struggle for Life: Higher Criticism Criticised IT will be seen, at once, by the title adopted that the attitude Of this treatise towards Higher Criticism is not one of hesitancy or conciliation, but one of avowed and unhesitating hostility. The writer can see no room for the opinion so commonly expressed, that the methods and work of the Higher Critics may ultimately make the Bible clearer, and put the faith on a firmer foundation than ever before. After a prolonged and careful exam ination Of the movement, he is convinced that if Higher Criticism were to succeed in establishing its proclaimed positions, then there would be no Bible, in the long accepted sense Of the word, left to make clear. It would be divided up as to its sources (and a stream can never rise higher than its source) into myths, and fictions, and forgeries, and songs, and sagas, and incredible traditions; and Whatever would be left would be full Of mistakes and contradictions, of anachronisms and misstatements; the whole a jumble of confusion, deprived of the very idea Of Divine authorship or authority. 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 Finality of the Higher Criticism written by William B. Riley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Finality of the Higher Criticism: Or the Theory of Evolution and False Theology Is that the truth? The science of Archeology contradicts the assertion. The Scriptures name these very men, Moses, Joshua and Samuel, as. 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.