Author : Charles Gardner
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483484443
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (844 download)
Book Synopsis The Redemption of Religion (Classic Reprint) by : Charles Gardner
Download or read book The Redemption of Religion (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Gardner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Redemption of Religion IN the year of Our Lord I 139 there was witnessed a meeting and parting Of two men of extraordinary significance. One of them, Abelard, was a man of restless speculative intellect and rich complex nature. Man and all that concerned man was his prime interest. The spirit of life that pulsed in him was impatient of the Old forms with which the past had clothed the religious spirit it thirsted for a new formula which would make man not less but more man, which would take account, without casting a slur, of his bodily activities, which would help him to love God with passion, and use this passion as a. Purifying fire to purge such earthy elements as kept him from realising his whole nature. Himself thus endowed, it was inevitable that he should have to fight his way through a desert of doubt. His whole life was a round of facing successive doubts, fighting them, and short seasons Of uncertain victory and when the fruit of his difficult life was offered for the benefit of others in his lectures and books, it became evident, to those who had eyes to see, that his system of life and religion was not built on a faith calmly resting on an authority that claimed to be divine, but on doubts which had resolved themselves into passionate affirmations and which set aside without ceremony authority's claim. 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.