... he is simply the Divine flower of humanity, blossoming after ages of spiritual growth, — the realised possibility of life in God. And if he is this, he has no consciously exceptional part to play, but only to be what he is, to follow the momentary... The British Quarterly Review - Page 2391882Full view - About this book
| Religion - 1881 - 902 pages
...mythology has disappeared from our faith." "From the person of Jesus everything official has fallen." He is " simply the Divine flower of humanity, blossoming after ages of spiritual growth, the realised possibility of life in God." 3. These apparent losses are real gams. " The power of things... | |
| Richard Acland Armstrong - 1881 - 902 pages
...mythology has disappeared from our faith." " From the person of Jesus everything official has fallen." He is " simply the Divine flower of humanity, blossoming after ages of spiritual growth, the realised possibility of life in God." 3. These apparent losses are real gains. " The power of things... | |
| Religion - 1881 - 892 pages
...mythology has disappeared from our faith." "From the person of Jesus everything official has fallen." Ho is " simply the Divine flower of humanity, blossoming after ages of spiritual growth, the realised possibility of life in God." 3. These apparent losses are real gains. " The power of things... | |
| Methodist Church - 1882 - 828 pages
...us mere deforming investitures misplaced, like court dresses on the ' spirits of the just ; ' and he simply the Divine Flower of Humanity, blossoming after...growth, the realized possibility of life in God." The fact that a man so pre-eminently sincere, upright, and in all other respects outspoken, so dealt... | |
| Theology - 1882 - 822 pages
...to 'H mere deforming investitures, misplaced, like court-dresses on ' the spirits "f the just;' and he is simply the Divine flower of humanity, blossoming after ages of spiritual growth, — the realised possibility of life in God. And if He is this, He has no consciously exceptional part to play,... | |
| James Martineau - Theology - 1891 - 652 pages
...to us mere deforming investitures, misplaced like court-dresses on " the spirits of the just " ; and he is simply the Divine flower of humanity, blossoming...to be quiet under the sorrows which pity and purity incur, and die away in the prayer of inextinguishable trust. And, to see him thus, we go to his native... | |
| James Orr - Incarnation - 1893 - 586 pages
...Presbyterian, November 1888. investitures, misplaced, like court dresses, on the 'spirits of the just,' and He is simply the Divine Flower of humanity, blossoming after ages of spiritual growth— the realised possibility of life in God. . . . All that has been added to that real historic scene, —... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - Christianity - 1899 - 440 pages
...iis mere deforming investitures, misplaced like court-dresses on ' the spirits of the just ' ; and he is simply the Divine flower of humanity, blossoming after ages of spiritual growth, — the realised possibility of life in God. And if he is this, he has no consciously exceptional part to play,... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - Religion - 1901 - 444 pages
...to us mere deforming investitures, misplaced like court-dresses on ' the spirits of the just ' ; and he is simply the Divine flower of humanity, blossoming after ages of spiritual growth, — the realised possibility of life in God. And if he is this, he has no consciously exceptional part to play,... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - Religion - 1901 - 444 pages
...to us mere deforming investitures, misplaced like court-dresses on ' the spirits of the just'; and he is simply the Divine flower of humanity, blossoming after ages of spiritual growth,—the realised possibility of life in God. And if he is this, he has no consciously exceptional... | |
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