Bases of Belief, an Examination of Christianity as a Divine Revelation by the Light of Recognized Facts and Principle: In Four Parts

Arthur Hall, Virtue, 1853 - 425 páginas

THE PHENOMENON 1 Christianity to be treated as a Fact	3

Phenomena	5

General Purport of this Chapter	7

Followed by an extraordinary Spiritual Revolution	8

Commencing with the Jews	9

Spreading itself among the Gentiles	12

Affecting the entire Character of its Converts	16

Promoted by the simplest and apparently most unlikely Means	19

Experience of Mankind as to the Insufficiency alluded to	112

Adaptation of Christianity to the Cravings of the Religious Sentiment	115

Not repugnant to Reason	121

Special Advantages secured by this Form of Revelation	124

Summary of the preceding Observations	134

Distinctive Characteristic of Christianity as a Revelation	138

Incompleteness and Partiality of its Success considered	141

Concluding Statement of the Position to which the Argument has conducted us	154

Permanent in its Results	21

Wielding its Influence most successfully where Intelligence is most developed	25

Sustaining hostile Investigation	28

Operating in our own Times as an unparalleled Moral Power	30

Witness its Institutions	31

Its Reformatory and Purifying Effects on Individual Character	35

The Consolation and Happiness it still imparts	37

Its genial and humanizing Influence over the Spirit of the Age	40

Its Promise and Prospects of Universality	47

Summary View of Christianity as a Phenomenon	51

The main Problem it presents is one of Spiritual Dynamics	55

Inseparably associated with an Individual Personal History	57

Offering to the World an Account of its own Origin	59

Points for Inquiry suggested by the Phenomenon as a whole	61

PART II	67

Difference between Instruction and Suasion	69

This Difference commonly overlooked in regard to Christianity	73

Communication of new Religious Ideas not its main Object	75

But to awaken Religious Life 0	78

Need of such a Revelation argued from the Religiousness of Mans Nature	84

Which Religiousness claims the Government of his whole Being	87

The Religious Sentiment presupposes some Provision for its Development 00	90

This Provision not to be found within the Limits of Mans own Being	93

No sufficient Provision in the Material Universe	97

Necessary Limitations of a Revelation through Nature	104

THE SEAL	159

the Case	163

No Moral Display of God by Means of a Human Life could	174

Miracles were necessary to the main Purpose of Christianity	185

WISE AUTHENTICATED 5 MIRACLES WERE NECESSARY ΤΟ	188

Adapted to our Love of the Marvellous	191

UNIVERSALLY EXPECTED IN CONNEXION WITH A REVELATION	195

Fitted to awaken Attention as well as to produce Belief	198

Natural Antecedents and Sequents connected only by Divine	207

INCOMPATIBILITY OF MIRACLES WITH GODS CHA	211

The highest Ends of Gods Moral Government subserved	221

Miracles of Christianity accordant with its Purpose in Manner	245

Christian Miracles sustained by Evidence The Resurrection	256

Summary of the preceding Observations	274

THE RECORD	281

AND FITNESS OF SOME SUCH RECORD 3 ADVANTAGES OF POSITION	305

UNFAIR CRITICISM RESORTED TO BY MODERN SCEPTICS 7 CON	327

DISTINCTIONS TO BE ATTENDED TO IN FAIR HISTORICAL	334

GENERAL EFFECT OF PRECEDING OBSERVATIONS	348

What our Religious Sense may require of a Record in regard	351

Religious Insight not to be confounded with Intellectual Pro	376

Concluding Survey of the New Testament as a Record	389

Relation of the Old Testament to the	396

Summary Description of the foregoing Bases of Belief	409

Título	Bases of Belief, an Examination of Christianity as a Divine Revelation by the Light of Recognized Facts and Principle: In Four Parts
Autor	Edward Miall
Editor	Arthur Hall, Virtue, 1853
Procedencia del original	Biblioteca de la Universidad de Yale
Digitalizado	17 Sep. 2023
Largo	425 páginas

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