Answer To A Discourse Preached By Dr William E Channing

Author : Henry Whitney Bellows
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259222743
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book William Ellery Channing, His Opinions, Genius and Character written by Henry Whitney Bellows and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from William Ellery Channing, His Opinions, Genius and Character: A Discourse Given at Newport, R. I., On the Celebration of the Centenary of His Birth, April 7, 1880 Charming recognized no theology based upon a revelation which by interpretation separated Christianity from the gen eral history Of humanity, and placed it, and must ever keep it, in antagonism to Philosophy and Life. He did not con sider theology as the study of God, within the covers of the Bible, as if that were a book foreign to human intelligence, and altogether above and aside from it. He resisted stoutly, from the irrepressible freedom Of his own soul, all compulsory allegiance to. The Church, to the creeds, to the past, to Jesus, nay to God himself, and strove to emancipate all other souls from this prostration before mere power and authority. It was not necessary to bind him with cords to the altar, if the Being worshiped there was entitled, as he thought he was, by his holiness, justice, and goodness, to the sacrifice Of his heart. Freely, joyfully, humbly, and with his whole soul he bowed before truth, worth, goodness, purity, sacredness, and in the testimonies Of his own spiritual nature he saw them, to an infinite extent, in the Great Source of his own moral experi ences. But not one joint would he bend before the threats Of mere power, or the assumptions Of an authority not guar anteed by his rational and moral nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.