A Commentary on the Bible (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Arthur S. Peake

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0243277431 ISBN 13 : 9780243277438

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from A Commentary on the Bible

We must not be hard on the tenacity and even obstinacy of those who felt themselves called upon to fight against the modern view of the Bible. If their judgment was at fault, their motives were of the highest. Religion is the most precious possession of man; it finds him in the elemental, changeless region of his being; and anything that endangers its interests must at all costs be resisted and overcome. Now, just because religion appeals to the permanent elements in man''s nature, it is difficult to avoid identifying it with the special forms in which it is embodied. Conse quently, when we are called to give up any of our religious conceptions, we are prone to believe that religion itself is in danger. Thus, however open-minded and liberal we may be in other matters, we are all apt to become conservatives in religion. A creed, once formulated, tends to become fossilised, and to entrench itself behind a rampart of sacred affections and time-honoured traditions. Progress in religious thought is slow and painful. It is no wonder that this has been specially the case with men''s thoughts about the Bible-the most precious volume in the religious literature of the race. But, if the progress of Biblical Science has been slow, it has been inevitable. The very love of truth which the Bible has been the chief means of propagating, has made it impossible to hold back the movement; once fairly begun, it could not but come to its own at last.

Let us consider in the first place the change that has become necessary in our ideas of the inspiration of the Bible, of the revelation contained in it, and of its supreme authority.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0243277431
• ISBN 13: 9780243277438
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 1042
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