Outlines Of Church History From Ad 1648 To 1870

Author : James C. Moffat
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330681855
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Outlines of Church History: For the Use of the Middle Class in the Theological Seminary in Princeton; From the Birth of Christ to A. D. 1648 (Clas written by James C. Moffat and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Outlines of Church History: For the Use of the Middle Class in the Theological Seminary in Princeton; From the Birth of Christ to A. D. 1648 Jesus, who is called the Christ, was born in Judea, shortly before the death of Herod I., which took place between March 13th and April 4th, in the year 750 U. C. The birth of Jesus could not have been later than two or three months before that event; it may have been earlier by one, or even two years. Our common era assumes it to have occurred in 754 U. C., at least four years too late. The day of his birth is not determined. At that epoch, the state of religion in the west of Asia and Europe was one of great depression. Rationalism had separated between faith and intelligence; east of the Indus it had constructed two great philosophical religions; west of the Tigris it had set up philosophy as a substitute for religion, and carried the convictions of the greater number of the educated. Confucianism and Buddhism, as religions, were accepted by vast multitudes; Greek philosophy did not profess to be religion, and scorned the ignorant populace. Between the Indus and the Tigris ruled the semi-barbarous Parthian, maintaining a degenerate Magism. Avestan monotheism was almost buried out of sight under that dominion. The pure faith of the Hebrews was confined to few. Everywhere the religious condition of the multitudes, to whom philosophy or philosophical religion was inaccessible, was exceedingly degraded. All the countries lying around the Mediterranean were under one ruler. 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.