Plain View Of The Case Of Professor W Robertson Smith

Author : William Miller
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ISBN 13 : 9781332178728
Total Pages : 34 pages
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Download or read book A Plain View written by William Miller and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Plain View: Of the Case of Professor W. Robertson Smith One who, after long residence abroad, comes home to find his Church in a state of considerable excitement, and to some extent at war within itself, about a theological question that has suddenly arisen, can hardly help inquiring into the cause of the agitation around him. And any inquiry he may make is made at least with this advantage - that he can judge dispassionately with greater ease than those whose circumstances have tended to draw them into argument before the issues were clearly stated or fully understood. And if upon inquiry it appear to such a one that much of the excitement is unnecessary, it is his duty to do a little, if he can, to calm it, by stating the case as it appears to an outsider in the controversy. I make no other apology than that I find myself in some such position as this for the few remarks that follow on the case of Professor Smith - remarks to which I do not doubt that such weight will be given as they may be found on examination to deserve. About the abstruser aspects of the case I am not entitled, because not fitted, to say much. Neither does it seem to me that it would be right to touch on it in so far as it is now before a Court of the Church. I wish to express no opinion as to whether it is possible or impossible, right or wrong, to bring a libel against Professor Smith. Questions of that kind must be left with those to whom they properly belong. But behind these, there is the question of the way in which ordinary members of the Church ought to think of the views that have been propounded - of the way in which they ought to feel towards one by whom such views are brought forward. 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.