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. 1890 Excerpt: ...under the lead of such peerless men as Origen and Athanasius, it can. What is the true conception of God? It is not the heathen idea of an impersonal absolute, nor as some arbitrary speculators, reasoning partly from Judaism, but chiefly from philosophical assumptions, affirm, that of a monad, a simple, unitarian being ...
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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. 1890 Excerpt: ...under the lead of such peerless men as Origen and Athanasius, it can. What is the true conception of God? It is not the heathen idea of an impersonal absolute, nor as some arbitrary speculators, reasoning partly from Judaism, but chiefly from philosophical assumptions, affirm, that of a monad, a simple, unitarian being. It is the conception of the Eternal One as having a threefold, complex life. This is the only way in which God is made known in the Gospel. It is the form of His name into which we are to be baptized. It is the way in which He is spoken of, in all the New Testament, by Jesus and His Apostles. So the thought of Him is not exhausted when we say Father; and, as would seem obvious, if words have any meaning, the Son is not only like the Father, but of the same rank in the scale of being, and must be of the same nature: not created, but divine. It was then seen that the only conception of God given to us in revelation is that of unity in threefoldness, and that thus the deity of Christ, which had to be conceded if He rightly claimed our homage, could be affirmed without making Him identical with the Father or the Holy Ghost. In this way the dilemma is solved which otherwise would be hopeless indeed. This result and conclusion were formally announced at the Council of Nice in 325, which did not claim to create the fact, or add a doctrine to the faith; but did claim, as against contending parties, that the Christian idea of God is such that each of the Three is to be regarded as really divine, that all Three form the completed definition of the Eternal One, and that thus the Church's Lord was the incarnation of the Second in the undivided divine Unity of the Three. And this doctrine of the Trinity has stood ever since, permanent in Christianity. Re...
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