This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...is acceptable to God. Such apparently was the simple conception of the significance of Jesus' death and of the basis of forgiveness which was held in the early church. It lacks much that was subsequently in Christian thought; but in its simplicity and its effectiveness it closely resembles that faith which common, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...is acceptable to God. Such apparently was the simple conception of the significance of Jesus' death and of the basis of forgiveness which was held in the early church. It lacks much that was subsequently in Christian thought; but in its simplicity and its effectiveness it closely resembles that faith which common, everyday, untheologically minded Christians have held probably in all the Christian centuries. CHAPTER VIII ATONEMENT IN THE TEACHING OF PAUL In turning to the teaching of the apostle Paul we find ourselves dealing with a mind for which the question of reconciliation with God, justification before God, was one of capital importance and for which, moreover, this question had immediate relation to the death of Jesus. Partly because of the abundance of the material in Paul's letters, partly because there are some differences of emphasis between his earlier and later letters, and partly because the authenticity of the earlier letters down to and including Philippians, regarded as the first of the letters of the Roman imprisonment, is more firmly established than that of Colossians, Ephesians, and the Pastoral Epistles, it seems best to deal first with the teaching of the letters to the Thessalonians, Galatians, Corinthians, Romans, and Philippians, and later and more briefly with that of the later epistles. Though the epistles of Paul are peculiarly rich in passages dealing with the fact of alienation between God and men, and with the cause of it, we must content ourselves with a few summary statements. The existence of such alienation is clearly and repeatedly affirmed by Paul (I Thess. 1:9; II Cor. 5:18-21; Rom. 1:18). The cause of it is found in sin, which is for Paul a comprehensive expression for all that is evil in the moral world (Gal. 5:19-21;...
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Good. Hb, 1909, no dj, cover has some shelf-wear, former owner's name inside front cover, nice clean text, no marks or highlighting, a little bit fragile, binding tight, SKU-A287, A small family business committed to BIG service! R3-1/16.