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Search - Jesus Christ And The Christian Character - An Examination Of The Teaching Of Jesus In Its Relation To Some Of The Moral Problems Of Personal Life

Jesus Christ And The Christian Character An Examination Of The Teaching Of Jesus In Its Relation To Some Of The Moral Problems Of Personal Life
Author: Francis Greenwood Peabody

JESUS CHRIST AND THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. JESUS CHRIST AND THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER AN EXAMINATION OF THE TEACHING OF JESUS IN ITS RELATION TO SOME OF THE MORAL PROBLEMS OF PERSONAL LIFE BY FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY. CONTENTS , CHAPTER I PAGE THE MODERN WORLD AND THE CHRISTIANC HARACTER . I CHAPTER 11 THE C HARACTER OF JESUSC HRIST . . . . . 39 C... more »HAPTER 111 THE ROOTS O F THE CHRISTIANC HARACTER . . . . 71 CHAPTER IV THE G ROWTH O F THE CHRISTIANC HARACTER . . . 112 CHAPTER V THE PERSONALC ONSEQUENCE O S F THE CHRISTIANC HAR ACTER . . - . . . . . I 5 4 CHAPTER V1 THE SOCIALC ONSECJENCE O S F THE CHRISTIANC HARACTER 1 96 CHAPTER V11 m ASCENT OF ETHICS . . , 2 3 4 CHAPTER V111 1 JESUS CHRIST AND THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER CHAPTER I THE MODERN WORLD AND THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER IN another volume1 the teaching of Jesus has been considered in its relation to some of the problems of modern social life. It is an inquiry which, in one form or another, forces itself upon every mind which has, on the one hand, any reverence for the teaching of Jesus, and, on the other, any understanding of the present age. This is the age of the Social Question. Never before were so many people concerned with problems of social amelioration and programmes of social transformation never before were social solutions so freely proposed or social panaceas so confideiltly prescribed. Social institutions which for centuries have been assumed to be rooted in human nature or ordained of God are frankly discussed as socia expedients or experiments, to be reformed, transformed, or abolished. Is the institution of the family to survive the present movement toward 1 Jesus Christ and the Social Question, hfacmillan, IF. B I 2 JESUS CHRIST AND CHRISTIAN CHARACTER disruption Is the institution of private property to be maintained among the economic changes of the future Is the new social order to arrive by peaceful processes of evolution, or must the pain and travail of social revolution attend the birth of a better world - such are the questions which confront all thoughtful persons who observe the signs of the times. A similar change in the centre of gravity is to be observed within the Christian Church. Where the mind of the Church was once absorbed by questions of doctrine, it is now devoted to questions of practice and instead of a survival of controversies concerning God, there is a revival of devotion to the service of man. Chris. tian convocations which were once preoccupied with definitions of orthodoxy and refutations of heresy are now discussing the relation of the Church to the family, the duty of the Church to the hand-workers, the application of the Church to philanthropy, the missionary opportunity of the Church. A distinguished preacher of the last generation, being asked whether Christianity was outgrown, answered that, on the contrary, it had never been tried. The present age is making this trial of Christianity...

ISBN-13: 9781408634417
ISBN-10: 1408634414
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 312
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