A Short History of the Doctrine Of The Atonement (1920).

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht berieben, ansonsten tadelloser Zustand / slightly rubbed otherwise perfect condition - CHAPTER I -- THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT -- Christian doctrine is the attempt to state the meaning of Jesus Christ for the world. Its history is therefore moulded by two great forces, the force of the original Fact, and the force of present Experience, the force of that which was, and the force of that which is. For Christianity is no mere developing system of ideals with its origin shrouded in the mists of the past. It is of the essence of Christianity that it rests upon a Fact, the Fact of Christ, and to remove that Fact is to remove the very corner-stone of Christian doctrine. But the Fact of Christ is neither its own witness nor its own explanation. " Ye shall be my witnesses,� said the Master, and so it has been. It is to living Christian Experience, individual and corporate, that we must turn if we would understand the Fact. Slowly and painfully its meaning has been wrought out in the life of the Church. Definitions have been made, tested, and cast aside, and the few brief phrases of the Creeds, tried in the fire of years, have been approved by Experience among many rivals to bear witness to a Fact that does not change. Doctrine is the attempt to state the Fact. Experience is the test wherein we know the worth of the attempt. -- And the Experience and the Fact are not two but one, since the Life of the Church is Christ Himself. ISBN 9780548713396