THE RIVAL PHILOSOPHIES OF JESUS AND OF PAUL THE RIVAL PHILO SOPHIES
OF JESUS AND OF PAUL BEING AN EXPLANATION OF THE FAILURES OF
ORGANIZED CHRISTIANITY AND A VIN DICATION OF THE TEACHINGS OF
JESUS, WHICH ARE SHOWN TO CONTAIN A RELIGION FOR ALL MEN AND FOR
ALL TIMES IGNATIUS SINGER AUTHOR OF SOME UNRICOGNIZID LAWS OF
NATVM, PROBLEMS or uri, ETC. LONDON GEORGE ALLEN UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN
HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W. C. i CHICAGO THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING
COMPANY TO ALL LOVERS OF THEIR KIND, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE,
CREED, OR COLOUR PREFACE BY REV. J. CYRIL FLOWER, M. A. IT must
have been a severe shock to any sincere person to realize how
practically ineffective has been the witness and teaching of the
Christian Church practically in effective, that is, in achieving
the end which any unpre judiced student of religion would suppose
to be its iciison detre. It has not, unfortunately, been
ineffective in producing controversies, fomenting
misunderstandings, erecting barriers. Nor, to do it justice, has it
been in effective in producing many noble types of individual life
and character. Its ineffectiveness has been social. It is pledged
up to the hilt, and in all varieties of its organization and
expression, to the promotion of the Reign of Righteousness and the
Brotherhood of Man. We do not need the terrible object-lesson of
the present ghastly war to compel us to recognize that progress
towards these ends has been appallingly slow, if even taking place
at all. Yet the realization of these things is of infinitely
greater moment than either doctrinal orthodoxy or individual piety.
This plain fact has been clearly envisaged by the author of this
book, and he has with scientific honestyapproached the question Why
is organized Christianity an ineffective instrument for the
attainment of the supreme object for which it should exist if it
really believed in Jesus The reply which is the result of an honest
and un biased examination of the New Testament records under taken
in the spirit and with the methods of science is likely to be
astonishing and upsetting to many excellent and well-intentioned
people. The truth is nearly always upsetting. And people with
theological preconceptions are the most easily upset. But the earth
moved round the sun in spite of the theological preconceptions of
Brunos 8 PREFACE murderers and Jesus was a man, and a real man, in
spite of the theological preconceptions of those who regard him as
a mystery to be surrounded with pious words and mis understood
titles, and not as a man, sage, and seer whose teaching lays the
foundation of the science of social life. One of the most
disquieting signs of the present time is the fact that people
profess very widely to reverence the names and titles given to
Jesus, while there is very little attempt to regard him as a real
person. As Bernard Shaw has said, it is a sort of theological crime
to speak about Jesus as if he were real. It is irreverent to speak
about him except in terms of an ecclesiastically sanctioned
mythology. It is difficult facing the facts of life to escape the
conclusion that there has been a vast conspiracy on the part of the
professed disciples of Jesus to evade the difficult task of
understanding and applying his teach ing or even facing seriously
the question as to whether it can be applied by loading him with
mysterious titles of superstition, and surreptitiously removing him
fromthe realm of the concrete and actual. This book, as the author
takes pains to make evident, claims no infallibility. It is a
scientific inquiry and analysis, and its thesis is set forth as a
challenge to further honest inquiry for proof or disproof. It would
be a remarkable thing if every conclusion of the authors were
exactly correct, or immediately commanded the agree ment of any or
every reader...
General
Imprint: |
Kessinger Publishing Co
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2007 |
First published: |
November 2007 |
Authors: |
Ignatius Singer
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
356 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-548-77210-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
General
Books >
Philosophy >
General
|
LSN: |
0-548-77210-X |
Barcode: |
9780548772102 |
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