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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sphere of revelation there may, and even must, be constructed a system of symbols in which sacred ideas are symbolised in a manner resembling mythical representations; nor again do we deny that on the basis of a sacred history a mythology may be developed, as we see it in Catholicism, where a series of legends has entwined itself like a creeping plant around the trunk of sacred history. We only mean to affirm that revelation, being based upon the principle of personality, is inseparable from a sacred history, and is radically different from the mythical world of dreams and shadows. The designation of the three great forms of religion as different stages of consciousness, is not exhaustive. They are rather three stages of being: ?a truth expressed by Christianity when it describes itself at once as a new creation of the human race, and as a redemption of it from the untrue, abnormal being exhibited in heathenism; Judaism exhibiting the incipient and preparatory economy of redemption. Whilst the heathen are estranged from God and stand in relation only to the divine ideas which manifest themselves in the world, without being brought by these into relation to the will of the divine Creator himself, the Jews, as a chosen people, are raised to a higher stage of being, where the way is prepared even for the new creation, ?the new creation which first began to be fully accomplished in the Incarnation of God in Christ Christianity And The Christian Church. 15. The widest conceivable contrast of existence between God and the world is presented in the relation of Creator to creature, of the holy God to sinful man. If now we consider the different religions in their relation to this fundamental problem of religion, we may say: Heathenism is unacquainted with the problem; Judais...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217811477 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217811477 |
| Weight | 1.27 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 In |
| List Price | $27.46 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 394 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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