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General History of the Christian Religion and Church (Volume 1)

General History of the Christian Religion and Church (Volume 1)

Neander, August

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1459097793
ISBN13: 9781459097797
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 174
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.80 Width: 9.02 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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: CHURCH HISTORY. SECTION FIRST. RELATION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH TO THE UNCHRISTIAN WORLD. I. Promulgation Op Christianity. 1.?Promulgation of Christianity generally; Hindrances to its Spread; Caiises and Means of its Progress. Ip we consider the essential character of Christianity relatively to the religious state of the world which we have just been describing, we shall be at no loss to determine what it was that tended on the one hand to promote, and on the other to retard the progress of the Christian faith. Our Saviour referred to the signs of the times as witnessing of him. Such a contemplation, therefore, will enable us to discern, in the movements of the intellectual world which were then going on, the signs which heralded the new and great epoch in the history of the world. As we have already intimated in the introduction, it will clearly appear that the very tendencies which, singly and by themselves, threatened the stoutest opposition to Christianity, and were calculated most effectually to hinder its advance, when combined together only served to hasten its triumph. It was a consequence inevitably flowing from the very relation of Christianity to the position which the general life of humanity had at the time attained to, that the obstacles opposing themselves to the power which was destined to gain the sovereignty of the world were converted into means for its advancement. We must, therefore, contemplate the two in their connection with each other. That which preeminently tended to render possible and everywhere to facilitate the introduction of such a religionwas its peculiar character, as one superior to every kind of outward, sensible forms, and, as such, capable of entering into all the existing institutions of human society, since it was not its ...

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