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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: Ill THE DISTINCTIVE MARK OF CHRISTIANITY In seeking an answer to the question What is the distinctive mark of Christianity, we have to look for something that is peculiar enough to separate it from other religions, and that, within Christianity, is universal, fundamental, and definite enough to be regarded as essential. With the truth of any teaching or claim of Christianity we have, just here, nothing to do. Our question is not whether Christianity in itself, or in any of the forms under which it has appeared, is true. It is simply what Christianity actually is. Thus we may dismiss at the very start the claim that Christianity is true while other religions are false. This claim is by no means distinctive. It is made by every religion. Again, it may be said that Christianity differs from other religions in the fact that it is revealed. There is in this claim nothing peculiar to Christianity. The Brahman claims that the Vedas were revealed. They have been uttered through all eternity. But, it is said, the content of these so-called revelations is very unlike to that of Christianity. This is true. It is, then, at the substance of the religion that we are to look and not at any claim as to its origin. When we look at Christianity itself, and strive to detect some element in it which may be called distinctive, we are at first bewildered by the multiplicityand divergence of the forms that it has assumed. We have the magnificent pomp of the Catholic Church, and we have the severe simplicity of the Quaker. We have complicated creeds and, over against these, the protest of a creedless faith. We have stress laid here upon form, and there upon doctrine. We have continual changes as to form and doctrine. What we seek is something permanent and, within Christianity, universal. We ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217829083 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217829082 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 196 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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