Author : Julius Müller
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230241340
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)
Book Synopsis The Christian Doctrine of Sin Volume 1 by : Julius Müller
Download or read book The Christian Doctrine of Sin Volume 1 written by Julius Müller and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ... Himself, the perfectly Holy, speaks and acts in any way rather than heartlessly, He is alike powerful in the expression of His love, and His anger, which is only another mode of revealing love.1 By the insight into this immanent self-mediation of good, the hope of an eternal and blessed life of the redeemed in the completed kingdom of God, is justified. For him, to whom sin is necessarily given with self-conscious individuality, the Christian faith in an eternal life in the kingdom of God, can of course have no other value than that of a symbol for the so-called return of the individual into God, i.e. for the annihilation of itself, of its personal existence, whereby alone according to this opinion the consuming anguish of this inward strife of division is to be terminated. If there is already in the personal individuality of the creature, as such, a germ and commencement of evil contained, or if, according to another form of this opinion, the individuality itself is only the consequence of an original falling away from 1 Only on the contrary we must guard ourselves, when Schclling in his celebrated Lecture on the relation of the Plastic Art to nature, as well as in his treatise on freedom, and Hegel in his Encyclopedia, essentially maintain of passion, what is here said of affection and inspiration. In the common forms of passion, the spirit, here immediately as will, stands related, sufferingly and unfreely, against that which is lower than itself, as to a power foreign to it, which works upon it as a dark power of nature; and this passionate resignation to any object of the impulse, of the entire existence into a selfish inclination or disinclination, is always, however enticingly set off by modern poetry in individual features of its...