ISBN: 9781458907332

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 … Mehr…

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. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... THE THEOLOGY OF THE APOSTLES UNSCIENTIFIC methods of study, based on d, priori notions of inspiration, long hindered the perception of any differences among the ideas of the early Christian teachers or any development of doctrine in the New Testament, and it is only in comparatively recent times that historical criticism has been applied to the sacred documents, with the result that diversity of type and growth of thought have been discovered in apostolic teaching. The first use of the new process was so crude and violent that this process was at once gravely discredited in the minds of sober students. Its foremost leader and most brilliant exponent was Ferdinand Christian Baur. That daring critic maintained that the primitive Church was rent into two fiercely antagonistic parties--on the one side the original Apostles, Peter, John, James; etc., holding an intensely Jewish form of Christianity, represented by the Apocalypse; on the other side St. Paul, keenly anti-Jewish, and therefore repudiated by the Apostles, whom in turn he is said to have disparaged scornfully. St. Paul''s views are extracted from his four greatest no NEW TESTAMENT THEOLOGY 111 Epistles--those to the Galatians, the Corinthians, and the Romans. The rest of the New Testament is affirmed to be of late origin, and most of it designed to reconcile the contending parties, and so to establish in the second century the doctrine known as Catholic in subsequent ages. This extravagant theory, which is commonly designated the Tubingen hypothesis, has been discredited among the disciples of its founder. In a similar spirit, however, Pfleiderer has advanced a scheme of primitive doctrine, which avoids the difficulties of its predecessor, although it conjures up new notions of an... Walter Frederic Adeney, Books, History, The Theology of the New Testament Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Hodder & Stoughton in 1895 in 225 pages; Subjects: Bible; History / General; Religion / Biblical Commentary / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament; Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic;<

ISBN: 9781458907332

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 … Mehr…

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. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... THE THEOLOGY OF THE APOSTLES UNSCIENTIFIC methods of study, based on d, priori notions of inspiration, long hindered the perception of any differences among the ideas of the early Christian teachers or any development of doctrine in the New Testament, and it is only in comparatively recent times that historical criticism has been applied to the sacred documents, with the result that diversity of type and growth of thought have been discovered in apostolic teaching. The first use of the new process was so crude and violent that this process was at once gravely discredited in the minds of sober students. Its foremost leader and most brilliant exponent was Ferdinand Christian Baur. That daring critic maintained that the primitive Church was rent into two fiercely antagonistic parties--on the one side the original Apostles, Peter, John, James; etc., holding an intensely Jewish form of Christianity, represented by the Apocalypse; on the other side St. Paul, keenly anti-Jewish, and therefore repudiated by the Apostles, whom in turn he is said to have disparaged scornfully. St. Paul''s views are extracted from his four greatest no NEW TESTAMENT THEOLOGY 111 Epistles--those to the Galatians, the Corinthians, and the Romans. The rest of the New Testament is affirmed to be of late origin, and most of it designed to reconcile the contending parties, and so to establish in the second century the doctrine known as Catholic in subsequent ages. This extravagant theory, which is commonly designated the Tubingen hypothesis, has been discredited among the disciples of its founder. In a similar spirit, however, Pfleiderer has advanced a scheme of primitive doctrine, which avoids the difficulties of its predecessor, although it conjures up new notions of an... Walter Frederic Adeney, Books, History, The Theology of the New Testament Books>History, General Books LLC<