item: #1 of 12 id: 15861 author: Goodsell, Daniel A. (Daniel Ayres) title: The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers date: None words: 9244 flesch: 70 summary: [Sidenote: Can Not Be Demonstrated.] There is always the question also, which I profess seems to be one not easy of answer, whether the literary judgments as to style when men are dealing with another language than their own, and especially with Greek and Hebrew, can be as worthy of acceptance as their authors and many others hold them to be; whether, in short, their opinions may not, like those of experts in handwriting, come to be so colored by their personality, or their interests, as to be of little evidential value. keywords: christ; christian; doctrine; faith; god; life; man; men; nature; sidenote; sin; spirit cache: 15861.txt plain text: 15861.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 16424 author: Coffin, Henry Sloane title: Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking date: None words: 43374 flesch: 61 summary: Love is stronger than death, and for Jesus God is love. The unending fellowship with Jesus' God of all His true children is an inevitable inference from what we know His and our God to be. keywords: bible; books; century; children; christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; earth; experience; faith; father; fellowship; god; human; jesus; jesus christ; life; light; living; lord; love; man; men; nature; new; order; paul; religion; self; son; spirit; testament; things; thought; way; world cache: 16424.txt plain text: 16424.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 17611 author: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint title: Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition date: None words: 101358 flesch: 73 summary: Now other men have not, from the beginning, knowledge of all things, but they acquire it in the course of time according to their capacity. 2: To Adam, as being the first man, was due a degree of perfection which was not due to other men, as is clear from what is above explained. keywords: angels; augustine; bodies; body; cause; contrary; corporeal; divine; form; god; good; human; image; knowledge; man; matter; men; nature; order; power; reason; reply obj; soul; state; things; way cache: 17611.txt plain text: 17611.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 19612 author: Harnack, Adolf von title: History of Dogma, Volume 1 date: None words: 163950 flesch: 62 summary: Hatch (Organization of the early church, and especially his posthumous work The influence of Greek ideas and usages upon the Christian Church, 1890, in which may be found the most ample proof for the conception of the early history of dogma which is set forth in the following pages), are in this respect worthy of special note. But it is to be specially noted that as a missionary and an Apologist he made use of Greek ideas (Epistles to the Romans and Corinthians). keywords: account; age; apostles; appearance; author; authority; baptism; basis; beginning; belief; body; book; case; catholic; century; christ; christendom; christian; christianity; christology; church; church history; churches; clem; communities; community; conception; course; death; der; des; development; didache; die; disciples; divine; doctrine; dogma; eis; element; epistle; etc; example; existence; expression; fact; faith; father; flesh; following; footnote; form; formula; future; gentile; gnostic; gnosticism; god; good; gospel; greek; hand; hermas; historical; history; holy; hope; idea; ignatius; iii; importance; influence; jesus; jesus christ; jewish; jews; judaism; justin; kai; kingdom; knowledge; law; life; literature; logos; lord; man; marcion; material; matter; means; messiah; nature; neoplatonism; new; order; origen; original; passages; paul; pauline; people; period; person; philosophy; place; point; position; power; preaching; present; prophets; question; reason; regard; religion; resurrection; revelation; roman; sacrifice; salvation; schools; second; sense; set; significance; sin; special; speculations; spirit; spiritual; system; tertull; testament; testament religion; theology; theory; theos; things; thought; time; tou; tradition; tên; tês; union; value; view; way; words; work; world; worship; writings cache: 19612.txt plain text: 19612.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 19613 author: Harnack, Adolf von title: History of Dogma, Volume 2 date: None words: 178653 flesch: 62 summary: Adeo ubi ecclesiastici ordinis non est consessus, et offers et tinguis et sacerdos es tibi solus. adeo ubi ecclesiastici ordinis non est consessus, et offeis et tinguis et sacerdos es tibi solus, sed ubi tres, ecclesia est, licet laici. keywords: acts; adam; adv; alexandria; apologists; apostles; apostolic; appearance; archôn; asia; assumption; autem; authority; baptism; baptismal; beginning; belief; bishops; body; book; canon; case; catholic; cels; century; chapter; character; christ; christendom; christian; christianity; church; church law; church tradition; churches; clement; collection; communities; community; conception; confession; content; course; creation; creator; cum; cyprian; death; dei; dei et; deity; demons; deo; des; deum; deus; development; die; distinction; divine; doctrine; dogmatic; doubt; e.g.; earth; ecclesia; eis; enim; epistles; essence; etc; euseb; example; existence; expression; extent; fact; faith; fashion; father; filius; fin; flesh; following; footnote; form; formula; freedom; gnostic; god; good; gospel; grace; great; greek; hand; heretics; hippolytus; historical; history; holy; hominem; homo; human; humanity; i. p.; idea; iii; importance; individual; interpretation; irenæus; jesus; jesus christ; john; justin; kai; kata; kind; knowledge; l.c; law; life; logos; logos doctrine; lord; main; man; manner; marcion; matter; means; melito; moral; nature; new; non; novatian; order; origen; original; passages; paul; people; perfect; period; person; philosophers; philosophy; place; point; position; possession; power; practice; principle; problem; process; proof; prophecy; prophets; question; qui; quod; quæ; read; reason; redemption; regard; regula; religion; respect; result; revelation; right; roman; rome; rule; salvation; scriptures; second; secundum; sed; sense; set; shows; significance; sin; sins; son; soul; spirit; spiritual; state; strom; sunt; system; tatian; teaching; tertullian; testament; theology; theory; theou; things; thought; time; ton; tou; tradition; treatise; truth; tên; tês; tôn; und; union; unity; value; verbum; view; vii; virtue; viz; vol; way; west; wisdom; words; work; world; writings cache: 19613.txt plain text: 19613.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 275 author: Melanchthon, Philipp title: The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 date: None words: 14565 flesch: 66 summary: And this error greatly tormented devout consciences, which grieved that they were held in an imperfect state of life, as in marriage, in the office of magistrate; or in other civil ministrations; on the other hand, they admired the monks and such like, and falsely imagined that the observances of such men were more acceptable to God. I, Cap. Nuptiarum), and his authority is not lightly to be esteemed, although other men afterwards thought otherwise. keywords: article; christ; church; faith; god; good; grace; holy; life; men; sins; things; works cache: 275.txt plain text: 275.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 27500 author: Campbell, R. J. (Reginald John) title: The New Theology date: None words: 68605 flesch: 66 summary: The history, even of the most recent civilisations, is, comparatively speaking, only as old as yesterday, whereas the presence of human life on this planet is traceable into the almost illimitable past. According to the received theology the incarnation of God in human life was limited to the life of Jesus only, and through Him to mankind. keywords: atonement; christ; christian; church; consciousness; day; death; divine; doctrine; experience; god; good; history; human; jesus; kingdom; life; love; man; men; nature; new; paul; people; religion; self; shall; sin; soul; spirit; testament; theology; thing; thought; time; truth; universe; view; way; world cache: 27500.txt plain text: 27500.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 28401 author: Finch, Richard title: Free and Impartial Thoughts, on the Sovereignty of God, The Doctrines of Election, Reprobation, and Original Sin: Humbly Addressed To all who Believe and Profess those Doctrines. date: None words: 21260 flesch: 61 summary: So that it is _morally impossible_, that God should do an evil Thing, These Truths are so deducible from each other, and in themselves so evident, to all unbiassed and inquisitive Minds, that one would wonder to find Men, of Learning and Integrity, give into the contrary Sentiments; which, in Effect they do, who hold Doctrines _naturally subversive_ of these fundamental Truths, as all certainly do, who depart from the moral Good and Fitness of Things, and resolve all into _mere sovereign Pleasure_ alone, _independent_ of Wisdom and Goodness; which must ever be at hand to _cooperate_ with, and govern the Exertion of, their favourite Attribute, _sovereign Power_ itself; or, if they do not expressly affirm this, they do by another Method the very same thing; and that is, by denying, in Effect, the _intrinsick Difference_ of Good and Evil, which, according to them, has no Foundation in the _ And this latter Assurance, and the Energy and Satisfaction wherewith the Words were pronounced, I take _rather_ to have been the _true Blessing_ than the _other_. keywords: adam; argument; christ; doctrines; god; good; law; man; men; natural; power; reason; sin; state; thing cache: 28401.txt plain text: 28401.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 37531 author: King, Henry Churchill title: Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) date: None words: 53539 flesch: 61 summary: Everyone that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.[45] If one believes at all in the presence of God in history--and the Christian can have no doubt here--he must be profoundly interested in such a phenomenon as the steady growth of the social consciousness. keywords: character; christ; christian; consciousness; ethical; faith; god; influence; life; love; man; men; personal; real; relation; religion; self; sense; sin; social; spiritual; theology; thought; value; view; world cache: 37531.txt plain text: 37531.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 5831 author: Bunyan, John title: The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works date: None words: 166100 flesch: 77 summary: Be content; let God give like himself; he is that eternal God, and giveth like himself. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, The Judge is the almighty and eternal God: the law broken is the holy and perfect rule of God, in itself a consuming fire: sin is so odious, and a thing so abominable, that it is enough to make all the angels blush to hear it but so much as once mentioned in so holy a place as that is, where the great God doth sit to judge. keywords: antichrist; blood; body; christ; christ christ; church; come; conscience; day; death; devil; doth; faith; father; fear; glory; god; god god; good; grace; hand; hath; heart; heaven; hell; holy; hope; jesus christ; judgment; know; law; life; light; little; look; lord; lord god; love; man; man christ; men; mercy; people; place; poor; power; righteousness; saith god; salvation; satan; sin; sinner; sins; son; soul; spirit; thee; things; think; thou; throne; thy; time; truth; way; work; world; yea cache: 5831.txt plain text: 5831.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 5954 author: Rawlinson, A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John) title: Religious Reality: A Book for Men date: None words: 48321 flesch: 60 summary: They have felt that in Jesus Christ GOD, the Eternal Source of all things, has expressed and revealed Himself in a human life: that GOD has spoken a Word, a Word which is the expression of Himself: and that the Word is Christ. Reflecting upon the experience which had come to them, Christian men came to see that the Holy Spirit, who was the Spirit of the Father and the Son, was Divine, even as Jesus was Divine. keywords: body; character; christian; christianity; church; communion; evil; experience; father; god; gospel; holy; human; ideal; jesus; jesus christ; life; lord; love; man; means; men; need; prayer; religion; self; service; sin; spirit; spiritual; things; time; truth; way; work; world cache: 5954.txt plain text: 5954.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 6038 author: Evans, William title: The Great Doctrines of the Bible date: None words: 82105 flesch: 81 summary: The mysterious purposes and decrees of God touching man and his salvation are beyond all human comprehension. Tit. 2:13--The great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. keywords: acts; angels; believer; body; christ; christian; church; coming; death; divine; doctrine; existence; fact; faith; father; god; heb; holy; holy spirit; human; jesus christ; john; life; lord; lord god; luke; man; matt; men; nature; place; power; resurrection; rom; satan; scriptures; sin; son; spirit; testament; things; thou; truth; word cache: 6038.txt plain text: 6038.txt