A Discourse: Delivered at the Dedication of the Chapel, Built by the Church of the Disciples, Wednesday, March 15, 1848 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

James Freeman Clarke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330985192 ISBN 13: 9781330985199

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A Discourse: Delivered at the Dedication of the Chapel, Built by the Church of the Disciples, Wednesday, March 15, 1848

Church - as it was - as it is - as it ought to be - this subject becomes more and more interesting every year. The tendency of the age draws our minds to ward it; for in all things the present century tends toward union, harmony, synthesis, as plainly as the last century tended to division, individualism, analysis. We see this in the material world, in those inventions which make the inhabitants of the Atlantic coast a neighbor to the dweller on the Andes. We notice it in science, in the universal disposition to look at the alogies and harmonies of the Universe, and to trace one Plan running through the thousandfold varieties of Nature. In industrial life we seek for Combined Labor, where formerly Division of Labor was the watchword. So in religion, the Church Question; that is, the question of Christian Union and Coopera tion is beginning to have an especial interest. Men are growing weary of an excessive Individualism. They feel the loneliness of a merely independent thought and action. They say with the Poet.

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Excerpt from A Discourse: Delivered at the Dedication of the Chapel, Built by the Church of the Disciples, Wednesday, March 15, 1848 It has lately been remarked by a continental writer, that the great Theological Question of the present century will be the Church Question. "For," says he, "it is the only one which remains. The first three centuries were occupied with questions of Theology proper; that is, concerning God - his nature, attributes, character - the Trinity, the Incarnation. The succeeding centuries were occupied in discussing the question of Anthropology; that is, concerning Man - his condition, sinfulness, weakness, limitations, and needs. With the Reformation came the question of Soterology; that is, concerning justification, regeneration, salvation. Now," says he, "there remains but this question of Ecclesiology; that is, concerning the Church - its idea, methods, and organization." Whether this mode of proof be convincing or otherwise, the fact I believe to be certain. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330985192
• ISBN 13: 9781330985199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 41