Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations

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ESSAY ON THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE		1-101
	Differences of interpretation partly traditional partly the result of growth in thought	1-3
	Mystical and logical tendencies	3, 4
	Rhetorical tendencies	4, 5
	Illustration from classical literature	6-8
	Difficulty of recovering the original meaning	8, 9
	A history of interpretation	9-14
	Inspiration	14-22
	The apologetic temper	22-24
	Anachronisms	26-39
	The ideal and actual	1-3
	Relation between Old and New Testaments	39, 40
	Preliminary questions	40-42
	Necessity of inquiry	42-46
	Interpret Scripture like any other book	47-51
	Interpret Scripture from itself	52-54
	Continuity of Scripture	54-58
	Language of Scripture	58-65
	Special features of New Testament language	65-68
	Rhetorical or logical element	68-70
	Modes of thought	70-72
	Interpretation distinguished from application	73-80
	Unity of Scripture	80-82
	The words of Christ	82-85
	Lessons of the Old Testament	85, 86
	Apprehension of original meaning inconsistent with typical and conventional interpretations	87, 88
	Transitional conceptions of Christianity	88-90
	Effect on Theology and on Life	90-92
	Sectarian differences	92-94
	Christian Missions	94, 95
	Scripture in education	95-97
	Sermons	97, 98
	Bearing of the subject on the position of the clergy	98-101
viESSAY ON CONVERSION AND CHANGES OF CHARACTER		102-132
	Spiritual conflict described in Romans VII	102
	Christianity in the modern world	102, 103
	The suddenness and permanence of early conversions	103-106
	Conversion of whole multitudes at once	107-110
	Re-action in spiritual life	110-112
	Reality of conversion in modern times	112-117
	Critical moments in life	117-121
	Changes of feeling	121-123
	Impressions	123
	Reasonable convictions	123, 124
	Influence of circumstances	124
	Struggle between good and evil	125, 126
	The power of God	126, 127
	The love of Christ	127-129
	Prayer	129, 130
	Reality of religious influences	1-3
ESSAY ON CONTRASTS OF PROPHECY		133-151
	Conflicting statements of the Old Testament as quoted by St. Paul	133, 134
	Old Testament chronology	134, 135
	Misuse of prophecy	135
	Aspects of prophecy	135, 136
	Human element in prophecy	136-138
	Real connexion of Old and New Testaments	139, 140
	The day of the Lord	140-143
	Rejection and restoration of Israel	143-146
	Transition from the nation to the individual	146-149
	Mercy and not sacrifice	149-151
ESSAY ON CASUISTRY		152-176
	Morality and circumstances	152
	Question of meats and drinks	152, 153
	Meats offered to idols	153, 154
	Things and persons common or unclean	154, 155
	The rule of Christian prudence	155-157
	The law of Christian courtesy	157, 158
	The law of individual conscience	158, 159
	The law of Christian freedom	159, 160
	A scrupulous conscience	161-164
	Practical consistency	164, 165
	The truth shall make you free	166
	Modern casuistry	166, 167
	viiThe counter-reformation	167, 168
	Intricacy of human action	168, 169
	Casuistry become a science	169-171
	The evils of casuistry	171-176
ESSAY ON NATURAL RELIGION		177-246
	St. Paul’s point of view	177-179
	Philosophical aspect of the same question	179-181
	Ignorance and responsibility	181-183
	Christianity and Heathenism	183-185
	Religions of the world	185-195
	Missionary enterprise	195-198
	God in nature	198-205
	Natural and revealed religion	205-208
	Primitive man	208-211
	Growth of early religions	211-214
	Relation to morality	215-218
	Stages of natural religion	218, 219
	Greek religion	219-221
	Greek philosophy	221, 222
	Roman religion	222, 223
	Stoic and Epicurean	223, 224
	Unconscious influence of religion on men in general	225
	Arguments for the being of a God	226, 227
	Final Causes	227-231
	The great First Cause	231-234
	Idea of Law	234-239
	The Church and the world	239-246
ESSAY ON RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH		247-272
	Revival of the doctrine at the Reformation	247-250
	Statement of the question	250, 251
	Luther and St. Paul	252, 253
	Real significance	253, 255
	Jewish conception of righteousness	255, 256
	The opposition of the Law and the Spirit	256, 257
	Grace and Faith in St. Paul	257, 258
	Corresponding facts	258, 259
	St. Paul and Chris	259, 260
	Liberty and assurance	260, 261
	Modern aspect of the doctrine	262-265
	Justification as an act on God’s part	265, 266
	Faith the mainspring of religious life	266, 267
	Personal character of salvation	267, 268
	Belief in the kingdom of Christ	268
	viiiIs unbelief sinful?	269
	Human imagery	269, 270
	Religious confidence	270, 271
	Faith and Love	271, 272
ESSAY ON THE LAW AS THE STRENGTH OF SIN		273-303
	The Law at once the cause of sin and the preparation for the Gospel	273, 274
	The paradox in St. Paul	274-276
	The Bible the easiest and hardest of books	276-279
	St. Paul’s conception of the Law	279, 280
	Old Testament notions and Alexandrian ideas	280, 281
	Conception of sin	281-283
	‘Conscientia peccati’	283, 284
	Personal experience of St. Paul	284-286
	‘Original sin’	286, 287
	Illustration from morality	287, 288
	Opposition of positive and moral	288-290
	Analogies in the modern world	291, 292
	Society	292-296
	The weak conscience	296, 297
	Speculative difficulties	297-300
	Science and Faith	300-303
ESSAY ON THE OLD TESTAMENT		304-307
	The first believers had no New Testament	304, 305
	How they read the Old Testament	305, 306
	Consequent interlacing of Old and New	306, 307
	The Old Testament cannot be dispensed with	307
ESSAY ON THE IMPUTATION OF THE SIN OF ADAM		308-316
	Slender foundation in the New Testament	308-310
	St. Paul’s meaning in the passages quoted	310-312
	Traces of the doctrine in the Apocrypha and Rabbinical writings	312, 313
	The doctrine can have no meaning now	313-315
	St. Paul intends to teach a nobler lesson	315, 316
ESSAY ON ATONEMENT AND SATISFACTION		317-369
	‘Substitution’ immoral and unscriptural	317, 318
	The argument from Scripture	318-325
	The prophetic view of sacrifice	325, 326
	The teaching of Christ	326-329
	The mysteriousness of the death of Christ	329, 330
	The language of the Epistles	330-336
	The Epistle to the Hebrews	336-339
	ixThe history of Theology	340-342
	Patristic period	343-347
	Scholastic Theology from Anselm to Abelard	347-350
	Doctrine of the reformers, Luther to Grotius	350-352
	Logical and metaphysical theories	352-359
	Logical discussion in England	353, 354
	German Theology, Kant, Schelling, Hegel	354-359
	Not a new theory, but a new method	359, 360
	A sacrifice—but what sacrifice?	360, 361
	The Divine Ransom	361, 362
	Christ died for us	362
	Less figurative views	362, 363
	Union with Christ	363, 364
	The greatest moral act in the world	364-366
	Personal religion	366, 367
	Eternal truths, and passing controversies	1-3
ESSAY ON PREDESTINATION AND FREE WILL		370-409
	A question of religion and philosophy	370, 371
	Dominant ideas	371-375
	Historical considerations	375-378
	Predestination national or individual	379
	Individuality and freedom	379, 380
	The elect of God	380, 381
	Calvinism and Romans IX.	381, 382
	Election transferred from the nation to the Christian Church	382-385
	Evidence of religious feeling	385, 386
	Philosophical fatalism	386-388
	Infinity	388, 389
	Omnipotence	389, 390
	Omniscience and foreknowledge	390-392
	Consciousness of dependence on God	392, 393
	Return to fact and nature	394, 395
	Cause and effect	395-399
	Illusions of language	399, 400
	Mind and body	400
	Development	400, 401
	‘Anima Mundi’	401, 402
	Degrees of necessity	402-404
	Uniformity of human actions:—statistics	404-406
	Consciousness of freedom	406, 407
	Freedom and obligation	407, 408
	Importance of circumstances	408, 409

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Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations

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Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations