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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. 1888. Excerpt: ... PRACTICAL LOVE. Devotion to the Ideal of God's Kingdom.--Philanthropy. 87. As the love of Christ Himself was not only contemplative and adoring, but also active and suffering love, the same must also be shown as a copy by His followers. Practical love in following Christ is more closely defined as a ministering devotion to the ideal of God's kingdom, which is to be lealized within the kingdom of humanity. While a Christian works for that, he likewise works for this object, himself to become a man "perfect in Christ Jesus" (Col. i. 28). Work for God's kingdom and that of humanity (of human life) can gain no definite form in the individual Christian otherwise than through personal devotion to a calling appointed by God. To the first disciples it was appointed primarily as the apostolical, the missionary activity. But within Christendom, which we here have in view, work may and should be done for the kingdom of God in every truly human calling. Every Christian must know how to unite his heavenly with his earthly (temporal) calling, which embraces the lively participation in the spread of God's kingdom, in its progress in all circles of human society. All true disciples of Christ work for His kingdom in the prophetic glance of the hope, which in Christ Himself has risen upon them, and which overcomes secular optimism and pessimism (compare the General Part, 51 ff.). We give ourselves up to no fantastic imaginations about what can be accomplished in the course of the present world, to no dreams, as if even in the present world's time evil would more and more fully disappear before progressive civilisation and culture. We know that the tares are among the wheat, and that both will grow together till the harvest. We know the complaint of the sower a...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153866040 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153866048 |
| Weight | 0.94 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 In |
| List Price | $24.67 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 288 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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