Unitarian Missionary Papers Consisting Of 1 The Religious Condition Of The People

Author : James Christopher Street
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396327513
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Unitarian Missionary Papers written by James Christopher Street and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Unitarian Missionary Papers: Consisting of the Religious Condition of the People; How to Make Unitarian Christianity Produce Its Due Effect on the Public Mind; Unitarianism, Its Mission and Its Missionaries These remarks, however, have more application to the clergy than to the laity of the Church. Among the motives which lead persons to worship at the N ational Church, theological conviction often holds a very secondary position and it therefore comes to pass, that among the better educated members of the Church, especially among the literary, scientific, and professional men, great laxity of theological opinion obtains; but these, though large in influence, are small in number, in comparison of the whole body of church goers There is, besides, in the Church, a larger number of persons who are untheological than in any dissenting sect; but the great bulk of the people, who give their allegiance to the Church of England, are, I am disposed to think, soundly orthodox, and believe, as far as they can understand them, the statements of her articles and creeds, and accept the Common Prayer Book and Bible as infallible guides in religion. On inquiry, too, it would be found that the Broad Church obtains its name, not from any disregard of the doctrines of orthodoxy, but from the catholicity of its toleration, its desire of comprehension, and the value it sets upon the spirit more than upon the letter. Such men as Jowett and Macnaught stand on the extremest outpost of the party, and are not in opinion fair examples of their class and, if Baden Powell is considered unsatisfactory with us, there is not much probabi lity that he will be regarded in any better light in the Church. 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.