St Paul and Protestantism
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ISBN13: 9780217058476
Paperback|9780217058476
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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: MODERN DISSENT. The foregoing essay was meant to clear away offence or misunderstanding which had arisen out of the treatise on St. Paul and Protestantism. There still remain one or two points on which a word of explanation may be useful, and- to them the present essay is addressed. The general objection, that the scheme of doctrine criticised by me is common to both Puritanism and the Church of England, and does not characterise the one more essentially than the other, has been removed, I hope, by the preceding essay. But it is said that there is, at any rate, a large party in the Church of England, ?the so-called Evangelical party, ?which holds just the scheme of doctrine I have called Puritan; that this large party, at least, if not the whole Church of England, is as much a stronghold of the distinctive Puritan tenets as the Nonconformists are; and that to tax the Nonconformists with these tenets, and to say nothing about the Evangelical clergy holding them too, is injurious and unfair. The Evangelical party in the Church of England we must always, certainly, have a disposition to treat with forbearance, inasmuch as this party has so strongly loved what is indeed the most loveable of things, ?religion. The Evangelicals have also avoided that unblessed mixture of politics and religion by which both politics and religion are spoilt. This, however, would not alone have prevented our makingthem jointly answerable with the Puritans for that body of opinions, which calls itself Scriptural Protestantism, but which is, in truth, a perversion of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. But there is this difference between the Evangelical party in the Church of England and the Puritans outside her: the Evangelicals have not added to the first error of holding this unsound body of opini...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217058476 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217058477 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 110 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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