The Catholic Doctrine of the Atonement: An Historical Inquiry Into Its Development in the Church, with an Introduction on the Principle of Theological Developments

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Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865 - 204 páginas
 

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Página 14 - His life for the sheep, that the Son of Man came to give His life a ransom for many.
Página xl - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.
Página 61 - The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Página 109 - Tauler, and Pascal. And in the poetry of the Church it is the Latin or the German hymns, or the lines of Charles Wesley, or of Keble, that fasten on my memory and heart, and make all else seem poor and cold.
Página 58 - What then shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Página li - Paul, we declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the first instant of her Conception, by a singular privilege and grace of the Omnipotent God, in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of mankind, was preserved immaculate from all stain of original sin, has been revealed by God, and therefore should firmly and constantly be believed by all the faithful.
Página 7 - ... mystical body. All the other bonds that had fastened down the spirit of the universe to our narrow round of earth were as nothing in comparison to this golden chain of suffering and self-sacrifice, which at once riveted the heart of man to one who, like himself, was acquainted with grief. Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and more holy than any other.
Página 108 - I am constrained to say that neither my intellectual preference nor my moral admiration goes heartily with the Unitarian heroes, sects, or productions of any age. Ebionites, Arians, Socinians, all seem to me to contrast unfavourably with their opponents, and to exhibit a type of thought and character far less worthy, on the whole, of the true genius of Christianity.
Página xiii - ... obeyed. Also, I Consider that, gradually and in the course of ages, Catholic inquiry has taken certain definite shapes, and has thrown itself into the form of a science, with a method and a phraseology of its own, under the intellectual handling of great minds, such as St. Athanasius, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas ; and I feel no temptation at all to break in. pieces the great legacy of thought thus committed to us for these latter days.
Página 21 - Son as a ransom for us, the holy for the lawless, the guileless for the evil, the just for the unjust, the incorruptible for the corruptible, the immortal for the mortal For what else but His righteousness would have covered our sins?

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