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...d Books of the East include all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions that have 'exercised a profound influence on the civil... ... prophet by the <l!!r'an, 6, lxxi, 57, 94; 9, 139, 206, 269; sent as all apostle, 6, 183; was a 'Halllf, not of the idolaters, 6, 19, 54, 58, 90, ... ...oses and A. who fulfilled his word, 9, 253; the sayings of the A. of the Christians, 18, 107, 107 n.; the people of A. called him liar, 9, 61 ; an... ...s, religious, ue Works. 'Ad (n. of an ancient Arab tribe) Hud sent as an apostle to 'A., 6: 145 sq. j and Thamud, 6, xlviii, 1.45 n., 183; 9, 121;...

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...te of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that Jews have a sp... ... in the Old Testament - but man-eating goes virtually unmentioned. The Eucharist in Christianity - when the believers consume the actual body and bl... ...nial regime on its former colonies. Spearheaded by the United States, the white and Christian nations of the West embarked with missionary zeal on a... ...munity and violates the property rights of God, the imputed owner of one's spirit. Christianity regards the immortal soul as a gift and, in Jewish ... ...munity and violates the property rights of God, the imputed owner of one's spirit. Christianity regards the immortal soul as a gift and, in Jewish ... ...ought and known in the world current everywhere... the men of culture are the true apostles of equality. The great men of culture are those who hav...

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...F MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY. PART II. (CONTINUED) PHENOMENON VI. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. THE two capital points which we now proceed to e... ...TIAN CHURCH. THE two capital points which we now proceed to examine, viz. the Christian church, and the captivity of Babylon, do not deserve so mu... ...rn to Jerusalem; the second, which supplies what the other cannot reach, is the Christian church. Let us begin with this, which is the more laborious... ..., or clear idea, of all which is signified or comprehended under this name, The Christian Church: that is to say, what is certain and of divine fait... ...e true and only church of the living God on this our earth. It is, as saith the Apostle, the pillar and ground of the truth, 1 Tim. iii. 15. The fait... ...isdiction, and spiritual power, which the Son of God himself constituted in his apostles, and, above all the rest, in the chief of the apostles, St.... ... this their method of thinking and interpreting prophecy is the doctrine of the apostle St. Paul (as they pretend); who in various parts of his writ... ...e same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.” This doctrine of the apostle and master of the Gentiles being supposed, they argue thus: —... ... of the seed of Abraham.” Those true children of Abraham, according to the same apostle, are all the believers of every nation, without any differen...

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...3. SCENE 3. SCENE 3. SCENE 3. SCENE 3. The Daemon tempts Justina, who is a Christian. DAEMON: DAEMON: DAEMON: DAEMON: DAEMON: Abyss of Hell! I call on... ...ncircling flames, the exulting cries _135 Of thine apostles, loud commingling there, Might sate thine hungry ear Even on the b... ... _175 Makes human will an article of trade; Or he was changed with Christians for their gold, And dragged to distant isles, where to the sound... ...onsiderable accomplishments, and the mother of a numerous family, whom the Christian religion has goaded to incurable insanity. A parallel case is, I ... ...civilization. The narrow and un- 162 Volume 3 enlightened morality of the Christian religion is an aggrava- tion of these evils. It is not even until... ...iscarded. I have heard, indeed, an ignorant collegian adduce, in favour of Christianity, its hostility to every worldly feeling! (The first Christian ... ...r thy fault. Whereto Adam answered, Thou art Moses, whom God chose for His apostle, and entrusted with His word, by 171 Shelley giving thee the table... ...eration. The latter is supposed to be that which inspired the Prophets and Apostles; and the former to be the grace of God, which summarily makes know...

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...se and simple, even all, who hear Of so fell sacrifice. Be ye more staid, O Christians, not, like feather, by each wind Removable: nor think to clean... ...esh it dwelt. In the other little light serenely smiles That pleader for the Christian temples, he Who did provide Augustin of his lore. Now, if thy m... ...ion lies Subjected and supreme. And there was born The loving million of the Christian faith, The hollow’d wrestler, gentle to his own, And to his ene... ...ee round. Then, with sage doctrine and good will to help, Forth on his great apostleship he far’d, Like torrent bursting from a lofty vein; And, dashi... ... me, call’d on with loud cries; and there In your old baptistery, I was made Christian at once and Cacciaguida; as were my brethren, Eliseo and Moront... ...t, further off from him by far, Than such, to whom his name was never known. Christians like these the Ethiop shall condemn: When that the two assembl... ...t.] Our Saviour v. 71. The rose.] The Virgin Mary. v. 73. The lilies.] The apostles. v. 84. Thou didst exalt thy glory.] The diving light retired u... ...1. xi. v. 13. “ En el tiempo ,” &c. “At the time that the sepulchre of the apostle St. James was discovered, the devotion for that place extended it... ...ims.” v. 31. Who.] The Epistle of St. James is here attributed to the elder apostle of that name, whose shrine was at Compostella, in Galicia. Which...

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...espect to such an approach, the theologian Marin Stefånescu stated in his ″Christian Philosophy″: < To be realistic does not mean to be materialistic... ...ly to confer a character of science even to religion, more precisely, to Christianity, the MESER concept brings forth logical arguments that foresha... ...not only his own mental energy, but also the unidirectional energy of his apostles and even that of the masses that had started to have an unconditi... ...which a character of divine revelation is attributed, and included by the Christianity in the system of the Ten Commandments, are most likely, the c... ... to be counterbalance. Even the text of one of the fundamental prayers of Christianity, ″Our Father″, states: «…and do not lead us into temptation», ... ...Thomas of his disbelief. The credit granted by Jesus to his transgressive Apostles signifies that God ″grants forgiveness″ to all 64 sins, whethe... ... surprisingly compliant with the standards of natural morals specific for Christianity, when Christianity had not emerged, not even on The Holy Lan...

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...e, wisdom is not an end unto itself, as perfection instead is for Jews and Christians, or Illumination is for the Buddhists. Its purpose is to devel... ... whole text of the Odyssey was not yet available in the West. In addition, Christian mythology also deeply influenced Dante, which 36 was based on... ... another evolutionary phase could emerge from our Europe that is mostly de-Christianized, but is still full of infinite potential:, a phase that inv... ...contact with our animalistic instincts and learn to transform them. The Christian ascetics do not agree with this theory but I prefer Indian wisd... ...ions or on the gods. This type of path is in complete contrast with the Christian perfectionistic ideal that, in my opinion, is what today corrod... ...our human flesh, he devours the pages of the Bible and declares himself an Apostle of Christ. But this is not so strange: he most surely meditated a...

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...ive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rom... ...could he set forth, in language of almost lyrical rapture, The Freedom of a Christian. 2 Luther was thinking of such a treatise long before it was ... ...into captivity under the tyranny of the Babylonian Empire, so in Europe the Christians have been carried away from the Scriptures and made subject to... ...is a theologieal treatise and was not intended for the rank and file of the Christian congregation. In this respect the treatise stands in contrast ... ...ore than learned friar would correct, declaring that neither Christ nor the apostles had either commanded or advised that both kinds be administered... ... begin thus: “The lesson is from the book of the Revelation of St. John the Apostle.” All his quotations are as apt as this one would be, and the wi... ... their visions. 21 Accordingly we are here taught that in this passage the apostle did not write to the whole Corinthian congregation, but to the l... ... all the universal commands, institutions, and ordinances of Christ and the apostles into mere “permission.” ... ... ridiculous and more worthy of this friar’s brains than his saying that the Apostle wrote these words and gave this permission, not to the church uni...

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...are pleased to inquire what are my thoughts about the mutual toleration of Christians in their dif ferent professions of religion, I must needs answe... ...and good will in gen eral towards all mankind, even to those that are not Christians, he is certainly yet short of being a true Chris tian himself. ... ...n his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to unsurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekn... ...hose should sincerely and heart ily apply themselves to make other people Christians, who have not really embraced the Christian religion in their ow... ...embraced the Christian religion in their own hearts. If the Gospel and the apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity and wit... ...whoredom, fraud, malice, and such like enormities, which (according to the apostle) (Rom. I.) manifestly relish of heathenish corruption, to predomina... ... things, cannot be denied to be works of the flesh, con cerning which the apostle has expressly declared that “they who do them shall not inherit the... ...e in it a bishop or presbyter, with ruling authority derived from the very apostles, and continued down to the present times by an uninterrupted succe... ...e and all manner of persecution. He that pretends to be a successor of the apostles, and takes upon him the office of teaching, is obliged also to adm...

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...Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY............................................................. 7 WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? ........................................................................................................ 7 WHY JES...

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...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classics S... ...Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ission, in any way. Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ... is an equal opportunity university. Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY ............................................................. ... .......................................................... 81 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ..................................................................... ...are, to a mod- ern educated person, nonsensical and incredible, whilst the apostles are unreadable. But with the clues, they are fairly plain sailing.... ...ardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has... ...Peter, John says) at the arrest in the garden. One of the first things the apostles did with their miraculous power was to strike dead a wretched man ... ...avid, and that they must believe this and be bap- tized. To this the other apostles added incessant denuncia- tions of the Jews for having crucified h...

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...l opportunity university. Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANITY Y ... ...NFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM- EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANITY Y ... ...of sun-dials, stealthier than the growth of a forest, are the footsteps of Christianity amongst the political workings of man. Nothing, that the heart... ...the heart of man values, is so secret; nothing is so potent. It is because Christianity works so secretly, that it works so 5 Thomas de Quincey poten... ...erefore, that, on this way of interpolating the is, we must understand the Apostle to use the word graphe, writ- ing, in a restricted sense, not for w... ...ay that all Scripture is inspired, though we may not therefore suppose the Apostle to be here insisting on that doctrine. But no matter whether he is ... ...udas Iscariot, it is alleged, par- ticipated in the common delusion of the apostles as to that earthly kingdom which, under the sanction and auspices ... ...ant any special wonder or any special blame. If he erred, so did the other apostles. But in one point Judas went further than his brethren, viz., in s... ... a pitiably vulgar scheme of earthly aggrandizement. But, whilst the other apostles had simply failed to comprehend their master, Judas had pre- sumpt...

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...The Third Article: On Becoming Holy I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the community of the saints, the forgiveness of sins, the... ...e true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ under bread and wine for us Christians to eat and to drink, established by Christ Himself. II. Q. Where... ..., established by Christ Himself. II. Q. Where is that written? A. The holy apostles Matthew, Mark and Luke and St. Paul write this: “Our Lord Jesus Ch...

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... hand, let us recall from past experience how much it has profited the whole Christian commonwealth, not in deed to enervate students with the deligh... ...y souls might be joyfully fed These men were the stoutest champi ons of the Christian army, who defended our weakness by their most valiant arms; the... ...earer than light that ye ought to be zealous lovers of books above all other Christians. Ye are commanded to sow upon all waters, because the Most Hig... ...n never be properly shod in the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. Paul the Apostle, preacher of the truth and excellent teacher of the nations, for ... ...oderation, and should have books for aid in study, and parchments, which the Apostle especially esteems, for writing: and especially, he says, the par... ...e these searchers. Was some devout discourse uttered at the fountain head of Christian faith, the holy Roman Curia, or was some strange question venti... ...atin writers, since without it the doctrines of the ancient authors, whether Christian or Gentile, cannot be understood. And we must come to a like ju... ...ng by the sacrament of baptism, and advanced our progress to the seat of the Apostles without any desert of ours, may deign to fortify our outgoing by...

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...her argu ments were free to treat on. By this time the emperors were become Christians, whose discipline in this point I do not find to have been mor... ...r the writings of heathen authors, unless they were plain invectives against Christianity, as those of Porphyrius and Proclus, they met with no interd... ... modern custom of any reformed city or church abroad, but from the most anti christian council and the most tyrannous inquisition that ever inquired. ... ...weapons, and with our own arts and sciences they overcome us. And indeed the Christians were put so to their shifts by this crafty means, and so much ... ...divers forms of orations, poems, dialogues, even to the calculating of a new Christian grammar. But, saith the historian Socrates, the providence of G... ...sented the sooner, as he confesses, because it was answerable to that of the Apostle to the Thessalonians, PROVE ALL THINGS, HOLD FAST THAT WHICH IS G... ... was a perfect shape most glorious to look on: but when he ascended, and his Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of...

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...t Mamma, who made the child learn the Sermon on the Mount, is not really a Christian. The Sin of Nadab and Abihu BUT THERE IS ANOTHER sort of answer i... ... the danger into which morality has led us: the danger of persecution. One Christian spreading his doctrines may seem more mischievous than a dozen th... ...rs to refuse to act on it.” The difference is as great as that between the Apostles’ Creed and the Athanasian Creed. When you repeat the Apostles’ Cre... ...them with adults in the family is the utter defeat of the vital element in Christianity. Christ stands in the world for that intuition of the highest ... ...ed on himself. This exclamation of Sam Weller is at once the nega- tion of Christianity and the beginning and the end of cur- rent morality; and so it... ...Positivists, Socialists and Unsocialists, so it should know that there are Christians and Mahometans and Buddhists and Shintoists and so forth, and th... ...ns heaven to them. They be- come satellites, disciples, worshippers of the apostle. Now the apostle may be a voluptuary without much conscience. Natur...

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... any certain conclusion on either: the one is denied by the oldest sect of Christians, the other by the oldest sect of Jews. (76) Indeed, if we consid... ... the version given in our Hebrew text as at present pointed, as though the Apostle had been obliged to learn the meaning of Scripture from those who a... ...her people, and also because we cannot infer the meaning of one prophet or apostle by the meaning of another, unless on a purely practical question, n... ... is a Divine gift granted only to the faithful. (153) But the prophets and apostles did not preach to the faithful only, but chiefly to the unfaithful... ...sons, therefore, were able to understand the intention of the prophets and apostles, otherwise the prophets and apostles would have seemed to be preac... ...d supernatural faculties for comprehending the meaning of the prophets and apostles seem truly lacking in natural faculties, so that we should hardly ...

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...om the delusion that nobody but Nietzsche had ever challenged our mercanto-Christian morality. I first heard the name of Nietzsche from a German mathe... ...ecklessly superficial critics seem to believe that the modern objection to Christianity as a pernicious slave-morality was first put forward by Nietzs... ...nor and manhood. Now it is true that Cap- tain Wilson’s moral criticism of Christianity was not a his- torical theory of it, like Nietzsche’s; but thi... ...has devoted his life to the elaboration and propagation of his theory that Christianity 8 Preface to Major Barbara is part of an epoch (or rather an ... ... modern proprietary classes and the proletariat, but in the part played by Christian mission- aries in reconciling the black races of Africa to their ... ...heir shoulders). The problem being to make heroes out of cowards, we paper apostles and artist-magicians have suc- ceeded only in giving cowards all t...

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...vine Comedy of Dante Hell 77 Not with the Saracens or Jews (his foes All Christians were, nor against Acre one Had fought, nor traffic’d in the So... ...It seems to have been a common opinion among the Jews, as well as among many Christians, that the general judgment will be held in the valley of Josap... ...ew Jason.] See Maccabees, b. ii. c. iv. 7,8. v. 97. Nor Peter.] Acts of the Apostles, c.i. 26. v. 100. The condemned soul.] Judas. v. 103. Against ... .... c. 23. v. 84. Nor against Acre one/Had fought.] He alludes to the renegade Christians, by whom the Saracens, in Apri., 1291, were assisted to recove... ...., 1291, were assisted to recover St.John d’Acre, the last possession of the Christians in the Iloly Land. The regret expressed by the Florentine anna... ...a large company of the meaner sort of people, declaring himself to be a true apostle of Christ, and promulgating a community of property and of wives,... .... Two old men.] Saint Luke, characterized as the writer of the Arts of the Apostles and Saint Paul. v. 133. Of the great Coan.] Hippocrates, “who... ...ee round. Then, with sage doctrine and good will to help, Forth on his great apostleship he far’d, Like torrent bursting from a lofty vein; And, dashi... ...t.] Our Saviour v. 71. The rose.] The Virgin Mary. v. 73. The lilies.] The apostles. v. 84. Thou didst exalt thy glory.] The diving light retired u...

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... occurring every day in confirmation of what I here advance. The rulers of Christian kingdoms do not hesitate, with a view to strengthening their domi... ...ights, but also the consent of God. God, however, has revealed through his Apostles that the covenant of God is no longer written in ink, or on tables... ...lation a prom- ise of aid against him; so let no one take example from the Apostles unless he too has the power of working miracles. The point is brou... ...therefore considered unclean, a reservation which would have no force in a Christian community. W e cannot, therefore, doubt that the daily sacred rit... ...the whole people. The same thing has often happened from the same cause in Christian states. Perhaps I shall be asked, “But if the holders of sovereig... ...ause for the frequent disputes on the subject of these spiritual rights in Christian states; whereas the Hebrews, so far as I know, never, had any dou... ...ver be of any practical use. However, when we reflect on the beginnings of Christianity the cause at once becomes manifest. The Christian religion was...