Modern Theology and the Preaching of the Gospel: V. The Deity of Christ in the Light of Modern Thought
Anyone who thinks there is no interest in the question of the Person of Jesus is certainly unacquainted with the temper of Christianity. The desire of the intelligent Christian is not to believe less, but more intensely, in Jesus. The difficulty which he finds is not with him, but with the interpret...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
1914
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The biblical world
Year: 1914, Volume: 43, Issue: 6, Pages: 382-395 |
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| Summary: | Anyone who thinks there is no interest in the question of the Person of Jesus is certainly unacquainted with the temper of Christianity. The desire of the intelligent Christian is not to believe less, but more intensely, in Jesus. The difficulty which he finds is not with him, but with the interpretations which may have been put upon him. He wishes to make Jesus real to himself in terms of Jesus' highest value. That is the state of mind in which tens of thousands of thoughtful men and women find themselves. In the May number of the Biblical World we printed an article by Professor Miller, of Princeton University, discussing the New Testament conception of Jesus' divinity, but this article by Professor Brown faces the same issue from the point of view of a theologian rather than that of a student of the New Testament. Both of these articles will of course be read discriminatingly, but both alike cannot fail to make an impression of a vital trust in Jesus as the supreme revelation of God, which is superior to any formal assent to inherited creeds. In both cases we see how thoughtful men, by different methods, are seeking to re-express to their day those fundamental religious valuations of Jesus as Divine Savior which found expression in earlier centuries in philosophical terms then current. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The biblical world
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/475081 |