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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Subjects: Theology, Doctrinal Incarnation Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Birds Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / History Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Theology Notes: This is ... More

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Subjects: Theology, Doctrinal Incarnation Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Birds Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / History Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Theology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: APPENDIX TO LECTUEE I. SKETCH OF THE CHRISTIAN VIEW. It may conduce to clearness if, having indicated the general scope and purport of these Lectures, I now give in this Appendix a brief statement, in propositional form, of what I consider the Christian view of the world to be, and sketch on the basis of this the course to be pursued in the succeeding Lectures. I. First, then, the Christian view affirms the existence of a Personal, Ethical, Self-Revealing God. It is thus at the outset a system of Theism, and as such is opposed to all systems of Atheism, Agnosticism, Pantheism, or mere Deism. II. The Christian view affirms the creation of the world by God, His immanent presence in it, His transcendence over it, and His holy and wise government of it for moral ends. III. The Christian view affirms the spiritual nature and dignity of mail -- his creation in the Divine image, and destination to bear the likeness of God in a perfected relation of sonship. IV. The Christian view affirms the fact of the sin and disorder of the world, not as something belonging to the Divine idea of it, and inhering in it by necessity, but as something which has entered it by the voluntary turning aside of man from his allegiance to his Creator, and from the path of his normal development. The Christian view of the world, in oth...

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