Hours of Christian Devotion (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Menzies, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330567889 ISBN 13 : 9781330567883

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Author claims consideration, I take leave to communicate the following particulars :F or several years I had, in common with many others, felt the want of a sterling book of devotion the product of our own times, and judiciously adapted to the prevailing wants; and I was surprised that, among the increasing number of works on the practice of Christianity, there appeared none calculated to be for the age in which we live what those of Thomas a Kempis and of John Arndt were for theirs. It is true that the Church still possesses the treasure bequeathed to her by those and other witnesses for the truth, who were masters of the art of speaking to the heart; and that such sterling works of the olden time will never cease to sustain and foster vital Christianity, as long as the Bible continues to lay the foundation of it. At the same time, however, they do not by any means preclude the necessity of a work originating in the present day. For does not the difference between books of devotion and the Holy Scriptures consist in this, that the latter furnish the prolific seed of all the many and various developments of spiritual life, and consequently provide a fund of spiritual nourishment suited for all ages and all individuals alike; whereas a book of devotion delineates one particular form of it, modified by its own particular age, and by the peculiarities of the individual author. Is there not,a connection between the mode in which the religious life is at any time expressed and the then prevailing degree of culture; and in consequence of this, do not different periods claim for a book of devotion a corresponding difference in style .
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330567889
• ISBN 13: 9781330567883
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 580
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