Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors

Couverture
American Unitarian Association, 1878 - 512 pages
 

Table des matières

Orthodoxy as the Oldest Doctrine Objections
9
Orthodoxy as the Doctrine held by all
10
Orthodoxy as Convictions underlying Opinions
11
Substantial Truth and Formal Error in all great Doctrinal Systems
13
Importance of this Distinction
15
The Orthodox and Liberal Parties in New England
17
CHAPTER II
19
Orthodoxy assumed to be the Belief of the Majority
20
The Doctrine of Essentials and Nonessentials leads to Rome
22
Fallacy in this Orthodox Argument
23
The three Tendencies in the Church
26
The Party of Works
28
The Party of Emotion in Christianity
30
The Faith Party in Religion
31
Error in the Orthodox Principle
35
Faith Knowledge Belief Opinion
37
made hostile to the Nature of
43
CHAPTER V
87
CHAPTER VI
130
Orthodox and Liberal View of Man as morally diseased or other wise
133
Sin as Disease
134
Doctrine of the Fall in Adam and Natural Depravity their Truth and Error
136
1221
141
Orthodox View of Total Depravity and Inability
146
Proof Texts
147
Truth in the Doctrine of Total Depravity
152
Ability and Inability
158
Orthodox Doctrine of Inability 103
163
Some further Features of Orthodox Theology concerning human Sinfulness
166
CHAPTER VII
174
Crisis and Development
175
Nature of the Change
176
Its Reality and Importance
177
Is it the Work of God or of the Man himself? Orthodox Difficulty
178
Men may be divided religiousl nto three Classes not two
179
Difference between Conversion and Regeneration
181
Unsatisfactory Attitude of the Orthodox Church
182
The Essential Thing for Man is to repent and be converted that is to make it his Purpose to obey God in all Things
185
Its Meaning and Importance
212
Need of Justification for the Conscience
216
Reaction of Sin on the Soul
218
Different Methods of obtaining Forgiveness
220
Method in Christianity
222
Result
224
Its History in the Church
225
Orthodox Errors at the present Time in Regard to Justification by Faith
228
Errors of Liberal Christians
231
CHAPTER X
235
Great Importance attributed to this Doctrine
237
Stress laid on the Death of Jesus in the Scripture
238
Difficulty in interpreting these Scripture Passages
239
Theological Theories based on the Figurative Language of the New Testament
240
The three principal Views of the Atonement warlike legal and governmental
242
Impression made by Christs Death on the Minds of his Disciples First Theory on the Subject in the Epistle to the Hebrews
243
Value of Suffering as a Means of Education
245
How the Death of Jesus brings Men to God
247
This Law of Vicarious Suffering universal
251
This Law illustrated from Historyin the Death of Socrates Joan of Arc Savonarola and Abraham Lincoln
254
Dr Bushnells View of the Atonement
259
Results of this Discussion 200
260
CHAPTER XI
266
Scripture Basis for this Doctrine
269
Relation of the Divine Decree to Human Freedom
271
History of the Doctrine of Election and Predestination
272
Election is to Work and Opportunity here not to Heaven hereafter How Jacob was elected and how the Jews were a Chosen Peo ple
276
Other Illustrations of Individual Calling and Election
282
CHAPTER XIII
324
CHAPTER XV
391
The Protestant Orthodox Idea of the Church
396
Christs Idea of a Church or the Kingdom of Heaven
399
Church of the Leaven or the Invisible Church 6 The Church of the Mustardseed 396 399
403
The Actual Church or Church as it is
406
The Church Possible or Church as it can be
417
THE TRINITY 1 Definition of the Church Doctrine 2 History of the Doctrine 3 Errors in the Church Doctrine of the Trinity 4 The Trinity of Manife...
423
Mansel
441

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Page 171 - Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Page 389 - Him should all fulness dwell ; and having made peace through the Blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Page 477 - And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched: and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Page 491 - And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Page 132 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 224 - God commendeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Page 148 - Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Page 132 - Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam — as the Pelagians do vainly talk — but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam ; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the Flesh lusteth always contrary to the Spirit; and therefore, in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page 226 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul, neither said any of them, that aught of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things common.
Page 107 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.

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