The Radical, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Sidney H. Morse

9780365989912: The Radical, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0365989916 ISBN 13: 9780365989912

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When, accordingly, in the Fourth Gospel, he is represented as praying that all his followers may be one, it is not unity of Spirit, in the best sense now given the words that is meant but, as is added at once in explanation, as we - God and himself are one, I in them, and thou in me. The unity is not of free, practical humanity as such, but of faith in the Christ. When Paul speaks of unity of the spirit, this is what he means by the term. He had no idea of it outside confessorship of his second Adam, the man Jesus from above. And the ground of this limitation lay in the exclusive claims that had been entered by the new Master. Doubtless, they were natural to the time, as well as to the spiritual isolation, the genius and education of Jesus; and hence the ease with which they served the idealizing tendencies that awaited them. But other teachers in that age, and prophets stirred by a pure spontaneity in earlier ages, had trusted eternal truth to its own authority. And it is forever true that the noblest form of spiritual affirmation is not that in which the teacher puts himself in the foreground, but that in which he hides behind the divinity of his message. And the results we are about to con template must always follow the inferior method, whatsoever nobility of character may tend to counteract its effects on the teacher or the taught.

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