epistles john series lectures christian de maurice 1805 1872 (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Reprint. xx, 347 p.; 19 cm. [First printed in 1857] Contents: I. Introductory [Meaning of the words ethics and morals, etc.] -- II. The ground of Christian ethics -- III. Light and darkness: sin and purification -- IV. The true idea of man -- V. Doing and knowing -- VI. The old and new commandments -- VII. The children; the youths; the old men -- VIII. The world and the Father -- IX. The last time; the Christ; the antichrist; the chrism -- X. The place of the doctrine of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, in Christian ethics -- XI. Hope; its ground, object, and effect -- XII. The devil and his works -- XIII. Relation of love to righteousness -- XIV. Spiritual powers in old times and in modern times -- XV. The perfected love -- XVI. Faith and love--their relation to each other and to the world -- XVII. The witnesses -- XVIII. The nature of prayer--venial and mortal sins -- XIX. Christian certainty -- XX. Truth in the woman and the man -- Note on positivism. -- `The present Volume does not profess to be a Manual of Christian Ethics, composed by me. St. John supplies the Manual which I wish my pupils to use; if they study him they will soon discover the feebleness and insufficiency of his interpreter.' Good orig. brown cloth. Profuse ink scoring.