This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...still less any Roman, would have believed it possible that the Temple, the House of the Divinity, could without profanation be thrown open to the worshipping people. No Jew would ever have imagined that religion could exist without a sanctuary, that there would be no Holy of Holies, beyond that which centres in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...still less any Roman, would have believed it possible that the Temple, the House of the Divinity, could without profanation be thrown open to the worshipping people. No Jew would ever have imagined that religion could exist without a sanctuary, that there would be no Holy of Holies, beyond that which centres in the union of adoring souls; indeed, that the real Temple of God was to be the living Church, the faithful people. In the same manner neither St. Augustine nor St. Jerome would have thought it possible that Christianity could support controversy without anathemas, and Christian constitutions without religious exclusion and intolerance; or that an independent European literature could withstand public opinion and a free press without falling into unbelief or indifference. But the strongest, the most convincing proof as to the past, and the only one which guarantees the future, is, that the Christian religion appears in the mind of its author as capable of infinite expansion. It presents in the records of His consciousness of Himself and of His divine nature, in the writings of the Apostles and their disciples, and in the whole development of the Apostolic system, the harmonious completeness of the only three not conventional factors which exist in the world: God, Man, Mankind. Neither Paganism nor Judaism could effect such a harmony; they both produced the very opposite of what they were intended to exhibit Hellenism, the highest form of the religions of nature, or of Paganism, had lost the consciousness of the divine Unity, by the variety of the ideals of humanity which it had embodied in God-men or Men-gods; it had moreover lost the consciousness of humanity, by its very eminent humanization of nationality; and, lastly, the consciousness of the free ...
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