New Testament Studies V
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ISBN13: 9780217241847
Paperback|9780217241847
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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: III But there is another reason for devoting special attention to the question of the private use of the Holy Scriptures in the Early Church. The mystery-religions and other sacerdotal cults, in so far as they possess sacred writings, treat these as arcana, and either deny upheld the doctrines of the Divinity of Christ and of the Inspiration of Holy Scripture in their integrity, he constructed in 1779 his plan of reunion, and in 1781 published it anonymously. Orthodox Protestantism was to be saved by reunion with Catholicism Piderit naturally sought to win over confidentially other Protestant theologians to his plan. Bellisomi, the Papal Nuncio at Cologne, in a notice dated 27th April 1780, mentions that Walch of Gbttingen, Leitz of Marburg, and three others had been won over (Eichter, S. 187). Actually Walch and that in 1779, the very year of the appearance of his Critical Investigation, which we have been discussing. In the preface of this treatise (S. 6) Walch gives expression to the same anxiety in the presence of the flood of rationalistic opinions which had moved Piderit: '' May the Lord, who has given us His Word, preserve and guard it against all attempts to wrest it from the hands of the faithful or to make it contemptible in their eyes. But hitherto, so far as I know, there has been no suspicion that Walch did not trust solely to the power of the Word itself, but also looked round for assistance from Catholicism. What an extraordinary position for Protestantism On the one hand Lessing deals Protestantism a fearful blow in that he plays off the regula fidei against the Scriptures, and so approaches a fundamental doctrine of Catholicism, while Walch secretly allies himself with a circle which would save orthodox Protestantism by reunion with Catholicism Nicola...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217241847 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217241840 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 158 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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