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...nne Evans. It consists of three novellas based on the lives of country clergymen and their communities. These characters interest Eliot not for their theology — she had abandoned conventional Christian belief — but for their humanity. In these stories, we find the earliest signs of the narrative voice, the humanism, and the realism that would make George Eliot one of the g...

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...ELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF GOD 45 3 WHAT IS GOD LIKE? 46 THEISM 49 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD 53 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? 57 WHO GETS TO GO TO HEAVEN? 63 DEISM 65 PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM 67 AGNOSTICISM 68 ATHEISM 71 SATANISM 96 AN IDEA OF A BETTER SOCIETY AS A BASIC ASSUMPTION 97 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY 104 FUNDAMENT...

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...is highly likely that you would be a Muslim.‖ —―I‘d have to agree with you. But you know there are many Muslims who have converted to Christ... ...eir values. And yet we call ourselves homo sapiens! ―As I‘m sure Wanda mentioned, we can tell what we value by how we act. The strongly Christ... ...alues and righteousness then is caught hustling young boys who work for him, or one who is caught in corrupt dealings, is not living the ideal Christ... ...es and liberal Muslims as his reasons for killing innocents. Power driven Catholics needed the saving of Jerusalem and the beliefs of the anti-Christ... ... is strange that so often in the Crusades it was the infidels who showed true compassion. They were often able to turn the other cheek to the Christ... ...ignorant, are you?‖ —―Certainly not. But you would have to admit that a huge number of believers in every religion haven‘t studied the theolo...

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............................................................ 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? ............................................................ ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ... through life accepting what the rest of our society believes. If it is a Christian society we believe in the New Testament. If it is a Muslim socie... ...to face their beliefs by thinking deeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a ... ... ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bush, as an evangelical Christian, didn‘t believe in evolution or in global warming? Was it a lack... ... and thus brought us new insights. Remember that Pope Benedict had been a theology professor. He reminded us that pure reason allows us to go beyond... ...ccur through purely random selection. He assumes it is a conflict between theology and science and that theology wins. But he doesn‘t really underst... ...et to heaven? Dan Paden, a researcher with PETA, has a master‘s degree in theology from Boston College, a Jesuit University. He said that ‗I think i... ...theologians who can add such questions to the other enduring questions of theology, like how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.‖ -...

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...hose detestable holy rolling fanatical halo heads. In the spirit world, a Christian is spotted a mile away by their halo of happiness. Norma Mack is ... ...akelex cringe. The small icon of a halo at the bottom of the report meant Christian, yet this was only considered a minor hiccup. Snakelex had seen ... ...as not highlighted or in plain red lettering, he concluded this so-called Christian must have steered off the road a little. The demon was quite cor... ...ing, bad language, smoking, and a dog named Slops. Morris calls the local Christians, ‘those who reside on the hill’. They are rarely seen in the pu... ... classed as one of those on the hill and is a frequent customer. One very Christian lady in particular has demons in a panic when she, on a regular ... ...tongue to in order to back up her judgment. Snakelex worked on Karen’s own theology that God was not mysterious or unpredictable. There were no grey ...

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...surgent ‗A‘ when insurgent ‗B‘ may win the guerrilla war. Why support the Christian side when the Muslim fighters may have the more ethical position.... ...ern culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced the activity, but cert... ...that all divisions and diversions fit into the whole. It seems that your Christian and Islamic faiths have had a strong emphasis on increasing thei... ...roblems in that regard. During the last twenty years there have been anti-Christian outbursts in east India where churches and Christian homes have ... ... The Koran and its commentators speak of good and bad jinns. The Jews and Christians have their witches. 45 We can point to Deuteronomy 18:10 ‗T... ...both written 2500 to 2700 years ago. They illustrate the evolution in our theology and how we can best attain a union with the Oversoul, the panthei...

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... way to the reality of Jews, Chinese and Japanese outperforming their Anglo-Christian counterparts particularly in the business and medical fields. ... ...ing. Between 100,000 and a million American Indians were killed by the good Christian invaders. In Australia 300,000 Australian aborigines were elim... ...ing people to get to heaven? But I suppose that for the last 2000 years the Christians have had this goal. Of course the Jews had that vision 3,000 ... ...m was more accepting of science, which is why they were so far ahead of the Christians. And when the Greek Philolaus proposed his heliocentric theor... ...ics will be about half that number and Protestants will equal Catholics. So Christians and M0uslims will be about equal, but the Muslims are gaining ... ...dge of history or science or a comprehensive understanding of philosophy or theology. Their thinking seems to be simply that their Supreme Being exi...

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...0, T eil II, pp. 632-646 by Gary Mann, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Religion/Theology , Augustana Col- lege, Rock Island, Illinois. Preface Wenceslas ... ...nd even falsified in many places, which has shocked and startled many simple Christians, even among the educated who do not know any Hebrew or Greek. ... ... not even sought honor by it, but I have done it as a service to the blessed Christians and to the honor of the One who sits above who blesses me ever... ...ly and sincerely. I may be insulted by the scrib blers and papists but true Christians, along with Christ, their Lord, bless me. Further, I am more t... ...st, their Lord, bless me. Further, I am more than amply rewarded if just one Christian acknowledge me as a workman with integrity. I do not care about... ...Open Letter on T ranslating” 12 right, devout, honest, sincere, God fearing Christian, trained, educated, and experienced heart is required. So I hol...

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for the expr...

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...s possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless... ...es of two centuries and formulated the creed upon which all the exist- ing Christian churches are based, was one of the most disas- trous and one of t... ...hat the Alexandrine speculations which were then conclusively imposed upon Christianity merit only disrespectful attention at the present time. There ... ...ife of man- kind. After this warning such readers from among the vari- ous Christian churches and sects as are accessible to storms of theological fea... ...y inci- dentally and because it is unavoidable that he attacks doctri- nal Christianity. In a previous book, “First and Last Things” (Constable and Co... ...the present writer believes that the discussions that shaped the Christian theology we know were dominated by such natural and fundamental thoughts. T... ...onist. This was the idea of the poet Shelley. And passing beyond Christian theology altogether a clue can still be found to many problems in comparati... ...ology altogether a clue can still be found to many problems in comparative theology in this distinction between the Being of Nature (cf. Kant’s “starr... ... be found that these two ideas are, so to speak, the basal elements of all theology in the world. The writer is chary of assertion or denial in these ...

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...city. The Indian mutiny might likewise have supplied glorious instances of Christian self-devotion, but want of materials has compelled us to stop sho... ...action, and yet not without service in showing the dauntless spirit of the Christian army. But the same can hardly be said of the dar- ing shown by th... ...rom her own breast through a pipe. Alas! the visits were detected, and the Christian prince had less mercy than the heathen senate. Another woman, in ... ... been so beautifully expanded in the story of ‘Eric’s Grave’, in ‘Tales of Christian Heroism’, that we can only hint at it, as at that of the ‘Helmsma... ...iden; and we shall see her resolution equaled, though hardly surpassed, by Christian Antigones of equal love and surer faith. 16 A Book of Golden Dee... ...gentlemen of his time, would sometimes arrive in his royal barge, and talk theology or as- tronomy with Sir Thomas; or, it might be, crack jests with ...

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...y bed. My lord, who lodges over us, is of a surety more of a wizard than a Christian. On my word as an officer, I shiver when that old man passes near... ...ungster, because he is too pretty. They neither of them seem to me to keep Christian com- pany. The boy is ever staring at the moon, the stars, and th... ...s Quatre Nations, the celebrated Sigier, the most noted Doctor of Mystical Theology of the University of Paris, was mounting his pul- pit in a spaciou... ...of Paris and the extraor- dinary scheme of instruction that then obtained. Theology was taught under two faculties—that of Theology properly so called... ...that of Theology properly so called, and that of Canon Law. The faculty of Theology, again, had three sections—Scholastic, Canonical, and Mys- tic. It... ..., since one only, namely, Mys- tic, is the subject of this Etude. Mystical Theology included the whole of Divine Revela- tion and the elucidation of t... ...ela- tion and the elucidation of the Mysteries. And this branch of ancient theology has been secretly preserved with rever- ence even to our own day; ... ...shed his task, and obeyed his glorious mission. The sublime resignation of Christians was then seen in all its glory. He depicted martyrs at the burni...

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... find in the scheme of conversion and salvation as it is presented by many Christian sects, a very exact statement of the mental processes I am trying... ...iving ancestors at some definite date, at, let us say, the year one of the Christian era. Everyone has two parents and four grandparents, most people ... ... again; but for all we know one Italian proselyte in the first year of the Christian era may have made by this time every Jew alive a descendant of so... ...l, the things most shared and least distinctively me. 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIAN... ...ICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY Y Y Y Y And here perhaps, bef... ...quence of my metaphysical prelimi- naries that I should find the Christian theology Aristotelian, over defined and excessively personified. The painte... ...annot bring myself back to them … But the psychological experience and the theology of Chris- tianity are only a ground-work for its essential feature... ...te effect of personality. After we have cleared off all the definitions of theology, He re- mains, mystically suffering for humanity, mystically asser...

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...nand III in the great campaign of 1236-48 that gave Cordova and Seville to Christian Spain and penned up the Moors in the kingdom of Granada, and his ... ...eserted Alcala the traveller sees now as he goes from Madrid to Saragossa. Theology and medicine may have been the strong points of the university, bu... ..., has a kind heart of her own and “some faint and distant resemblance to a Christian 37 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. about her;” and as for Sancho, ... ...and divine, a sort of motley in 49 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. which no Christian understanding should dress itself. It has only to avail itself of... ...e some share in the invention of the famous Matteo Boiardo, whence too the Christian poet Ludovico Ariosto wove his web, to whom, if I find him here, ... ...the Biscayan returned, “I no gentleman! -I swear to God thou liest as I am Christian: if thou droppest lance and drawest sword, soon shalt thou see th...

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...ough he never failed to please by the charm alike of natural manner and of Christian courtesy; the same spirit of gentleness and kindness very soon pr... ...an- other year of preparation, so as to be able to study both He- brew and theology more thoroughly than would be possible when pastoral labour should... ..., and he was ready to give up all, and content to lead the forlorn hope of Christianity, and perish in the front ranks of the noble army. “And having ... ... different case. Your boy is not fit to come into the com- pany of little Christians! Awful as it is to think of, he is al- ready, at his early age, ... ...a great gift of God, and to be waited for with patience. The motto of “The Christian Year” is very beauti- ful. I sent the roses on T uesday. My best ... ...that what struck him most was the calm balancing of arguments, like a true Christian Judge. Sir John spoke of the great comfort he had in this son, cu... ...quite right and true, but does not to me quite savour of the healthy sound theology of the Church of England; the fragrance is rather that of an exoti... ...lergy in relation to the work that they have to do. They have not to teach theology to educated Christians, but to make known the elements of Gospel t... ...ughan. I read his books with much interest. He doesn’t belong to the Keble theology; but he seems to me to be a thoughtful, useful, and eminently prac...

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...nand III in the great campaign of 1236-48 that gave Cordova and Seville to Christian Spain and penned up the Moors in the kingdom of Granada, and his ... ...eserted Alcala the traveller sees now as he goes from Madrid to Saragossa. Theology and medicine may have been the strong points of the university, bu... ...s – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. her own and “some faint and distant resemblance to a Christian about her;” and as for Sancho, though on dissection we fail to fi... ...o anybody, mixing up things human and divine, a sort of motley in which no Christian understanding should dress itself. It has only to 44 Don Quixote... ...the invention of the famous Matteo Boiardo, whence 68 Don Quixote too the Christian poet Ludovico Ariosto wove his web, to whom, if I find him here, ... ...the Biscayan returned, “I no gentleman! -I swear to God thou liest as I am Christian: if thou droppest lance and drawest sword, soon shalt thou see th... ... getting him to take kindly to the law, which I wished him to study, or to theology, the queen of them all. I would like him to be an honour to his fa... ...mons.” “He preaches well who lives well,” said Sancho, “and I know no more theology than that.” “Nor needst thou,” said Don Quixote, “but I cannot con...

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... And the local government, being indignantly summoned to interfere by some Christian strangers, had declined to do so, on the plea that the man was ma... ... the slender modification of In- dian manners as yet effected by the Papal Christianization of those countries, and in the neighborhood of a river-sys... ...st to be regretted, in a matter deeply affecting the bishop’s can- dor and Christian charity, namely, a controversial correspon- dence with a Somerset... ...and in these words: “Jeremy T aylor, the most eloquent and the subtlest of Christian philosophers, was the son of a barber, and the son-in-law of a ki... ...r as too overwhelmingly exacting in all that related to the philosophy and theology of that man 80 “myriad-minded,” and of that century so anarchical.... ...here I did understand, I could enable her to understand. On the subject of theology, it was not easy indeed for any- body, man or boy, to be more igno... ... ject for wonder, or (considering my age) for blame. In real- ity, to make theology into a captivating study for the young, it must be translated into... ... captivating study for the young, it must be translated into controversial theology. And in what way could such a polemic interest be evoked except th... ...an, where some officers, wishing to impress Akhbar Khan with the beauty of Christianity, very judiciously re- peated to him the Lord’s Prayer and the ...

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...Bishop by H. G. Wells “Man’s true Environment is God” J. H. Oldham in “The Christian Gospel” (T ract of the N. M. R. and H.) CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER C... ...aying of his that the aim of socialism—the right sort of socialism —was to Christianize employment. Regardless of suspicion on either hand, regardless... ...fault that we’ve differentiated.” “But you haven’t understood the drift of Christianity,” said the bishop. “It’s just to assert that men are One commu... ...pularity when he brought down his consistent friend, the dear old Princess Christiana of Hoch and Unter, black bonnet, deafness, and all, to open a ne... ...d consequently a persona grata with the royal aunts, and that the Princess Christiana was merely just one of a number of royalties now practically at ... ...d it for the first time. It was over- familiar. Everything latterly in his theology and beliefs had become over-familiar. It had all become mechanical... ... bluish legal anecdotes which is so common an affliction with lawyers, and theology sinks and dies in that turbid stream. But as he lay in bed that ni... ...s I have done…. It tried to express the truth and lost itself in a maze of theology. It tried to bring order into the world and sold its faith to Cons... ...think those were disasters.” “But my dear Sir!” “You don’t want to discuss theology with me, I know. So let me tell you simply that from my point of v...

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..., and Christ be with us all.” Long life to the great Conde de Lemos, whose Christian charity and well-known generosity support me against all the stro... ...alm from all the knights-errant; for the Moor in his own language, and the Christian in his, have taken care to set before us your gallantry, your hig... ...squire, if he had said anything about me that was at all unbecoming an old Christian, such as I am, the deaf would have heard of it.” “That would be w... ...orn in the ditches,” said Sancho, “not of those who have the fat of an old Christian four fingers deep on their souls, as I have. Nay, only look at my... ... portion of the immortality their famous deeds deserve; though we Catholic Christians and knights-errant look more to that future glory that is everla... ... getting him to take kindly to the law, which I wished him to study, or to theology, the queen of them all. I would like him to be an honour to his fa... ...mons.” “He preaches well who lives well,” said Sancho, “and I know no more theology than that.” “Nor needst thou,” said Don Quixote, “but I cannot con...

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...My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas By a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the i... ..., in a thousand ways, our very personality. The outspread wing of American christianity, apparently broad enough to give shelter to a perishing world,... ...d sounds had been repeatedly heard. Slaves know enough of the rudiments of theology to believe that those go to hell who die slaveholders; and they of... ...d creatures I ever saw, those two girls—in the re- fined, church going and Christian city of Baltimore were the most deplorable. Of stone must that he... ...ade it impossible to see her without thinking and feeling—“that woman is a Christian.” There was no sor- row nor suffering for which she had not a tea... ...s my dear old father, the pious Lawson, who was, in 121 Frederick Douglas christian graces, the very counterpart of “Uncle” Tom. The resemblance is s... ...escape the heat of summer, but not as the home of man. I knew something of theology, but nothing of geography. I really did not, at that time, know th...

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...a learned lady, famed For every branch of every science known In every Christian language ever named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone... ...od, her breast was peaceable — A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles... ... Leaving at last not much besides chronology, Excepting the post obits of theology. ‘T was on the sixth of June, about the hour Of half past ... ...en every drop had seem’d To taste of heaven—If this be true, indeed Some Christians have a comfortable creed. There were two fathers in this gha... ...ance of a brother, The freest she that ever gazed on glass; I speak of Christian lands in this comparison, Where wives, at least, are seldom k... ... drawn from their spouses, you conceive. Some persons say that Dante meant theology By Beatrice, and not a mistress—I, Although my opinion may... ...haggled, wrangled, swore, too — so they did! As though they were in a mere Christian fair Cheapening an ox, an ass, a lamb, or kid; So that th... ... For them in saving such a desperate foe— He hew’d away, like doctors of theology When they dispute with sceptics; and with curses Struck at h... ... a genius turn’d for fits. But whether fits, or wits, or harpsichords, Theology, fine arts, or finer stays, May be the baits for gentlemen or ...