The Distinctive Ideas of Jesus (Classic Reprint) Review
Judaism a hoping religion, but Christianity is the realization of what heathenism sought and Judaism hoped for. Luthaedt. A mere Plato, theorizing about life, a Seneca, full of moral apotheg-ms, Jesus never was, nor could be. He has wrought a revolution in the moral and intellectual life of mankind. 0patient Jesus, touching us with Thy strong, strange, quiet, loving strokes, calming our hearts, nerving and girding us for duty, no time or distance separates from Thee. We see Thee, hear Thee, feel Thee still! Chaeles Mc Tyeire Bishop. But, irrespective of the miracle-working of Jesus, His power is altogether an unparalleled fact in history. A new era dates from His birth. His coming, as Doctor Sears has well said, was a new influx of power. Jesus seems to concentrate in His own person the great constructive forces of religion. ... It was His wonderful work to create in the Roman Empire a new faith, a new hope and a new joy. The belief in immortality became through Him in Judea what it had never been in A thens or Rome, a lidng, working faith, which transformed the earth and transfigured death. .. .T he unexampled power of Jesus was creative, likewise, of a new humanity. It poured its fresh, renewing streams through all the channels of social life. Modern society as well as modern history dates from the advent of Christ. ... It was the peculiar power of the despised Nazarine to call forth, by a mighty voice, a new civilization from the grave of the old. It may be said that philosophy rolled away the stone, but to restore life was the miracle wrought by Christianity. IST ewman Smith, Old Faiths in New Light, 2d ed., pp. 210, 211, 215.
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