The Letter and the SpiritCosimo, Inc., 1 juin 2006 - 228 pages What do we mean by religion?... [T]he tendency since the Reformation has undoubtedly been, to make religion more a badge of separation than a basis of union. But in our day this subject has begun to present itself in a new light. As the science of language has taught us to see affinities where, until recently, men only saw diversities, so the science of religion-a science which, as yet, professes to be only in its infancy-is teaching is that beneath all the outward manifestations of religion lies that which is anterior to all religions, the faculty of aspiring and yearning after the Infinite. -from "Lecture VI: In Creeds and Confessions of Faith" These eight lectures, delivered by Trinity College Fellow ROBERT EDWARD BARTLETT (1830-1904) at the University of Oxford and gathered together in one volume in 1888, explore Christianity from the perspective as both faith and law, as the expression of human feeling as well as the rules by which humanity should live. From the trials of his conversion that influenced St. Paul's interpretations of the Gospels-and the suggestion that he did not consider faith dependent upon them-to how the history of the Church and the performance of the Sacraments are connected in metaphor and actuality, this is an intriguing discussion about how ideas about God, man, and the relationship between them created the Church and ensure its continued existence. OF INTEREST TO: students of Christian philosophy |
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Religion is the bond that unites us first to God and then to | 23 |
LECTURE II | 25 |
The Church inherited the traditions of Judaism The two canons | 29 |
The allegorical interpretation of Scripture Professing to | 39 |
True use of the Old Testament | 46 |
The Eucharist One spirit under many forms | 113 |
LECTURE VI | 131 |
When Creeds become exclusive they cease to be Catholic | 138 |
Progress of religious knowledge The doctrine of development | 150 |
LECTURE VII | 156 |
Prayers for the dead | 166 |
The best basis of Christian union will be found in association | 186 |
The growth in Oxford of a sense of responsibility for lessfavoured | 193 |
THE LETTER AND THE SPIRIT IN SCRIPTURE EXEGESIScontinued | 53 |
Contrast between Mohammedanism and Christianity | 71 |
Argument from Church history | 90 |
LECTURE V | 102 |
Conclusion | 200 |
APPENDIX | 207 |
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The Letter and the Spirit: Eight Lectures Delivered Before the University of ... Robert Edward Bartlett Affichage du livre entier - 1888 |
The Letter and the Spirit: Eight Lectures Delivered Before the University of ... Robert Edward Bartlett Affichage du livre entier - 1888 |
The Letter and the Spirit Robert Edward Bartlett,E. and J. B. Young and Company Aucun aperçu disponible - 2019 |
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Page vii - I direct and appoint, that the eight Divinity Lecture Sermons shall be preached upon either of the following Subjects — to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics — upon the divine authority of the holy Scriptures — upon the authority of the writings of the primitive Fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church — upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesns Christ — upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost — upon the Articles...
Page 9 - God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Page 5 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 8 - And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?