2010, ISBN: 9781154297492

NEAR FINE. Paperback. 2010. 9780521131278 Paperback, 344pp., This listing is a new book, a title currently in-print which we order directly and immediately from the publisher. ., 2010, Ra… More...

NEAR FINE. Paperback. 2010. 9780521131278 Paperback, 344pp., This listing is a new book, a title currently in-print which we order directly and immediately from the publisher. ., 2010, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 230 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.5in.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. 1885 edition. Excerpt: . . . E. Worthington. Boston: Ginn, Heath, andCo. . , ii. Art. I. --The Alexandrian Type of Christianity. It is now some time since Mr. Maurice, in one of his letters recently published, urged the desirability of a fuller study of the early Christian writers of Alexandria. The subject is still unduly neglected. Alexandrian Christianity, like our English Cambridge Platonism, suffers from the disadvantage of having Been considered unorthodox but not heretical. Although it has not received the patronage of popularity, it has been denied the advertisement of antipathy which inevitably accompanies the condemnation of obnoxious tenets, and as a natural consequence it has fallen into the limbo of comparative indifference. For centuries the Church of the West has been so effectually moulded by the one master-mind of Augustine that it requires quite an effort of imagination to perceive that any other type of Christianity is possible, and a still greater effort to inquire whether it would have been better if some other type had been followed. Nevertheless it is conceivable that the course of thought might have taken a different turn. Had it done so, and had the Church transferred its allegiance from the Latin to the Alexandrian school, and followed Clement and Origen instead of Augustine, there can be, no doubt that effects would have been produced upon history far beyond the retired regions of abstract theology. Many will consider that the instinct which selected Augustine as the prince of Christian theology to the neglect of the Alexandrian thinkers is in itself a strong justification for the position of rank and power to which the former has been exalted. Nor No. Clxii. 17 is it difficult to see definite grounds for acquiescing in his preeminence. In one. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<

ISBN: 9781154297492

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 230 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 230 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.5in.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. 1885 edition. Excerpt: . . . E. Worthington. Boston: Ginn, Heath, andCo. . , ii. Art. I. --The Alexandrian Type of Christianity. It is now some time since Mr. Maurice, in one of his letters recently published, urged the desirability of a fuller study of the early Christian writers of Alexandria. The subject is still unduly neglected. Alexandrian Christianity, like our English Cambridge Platonism, suffers from the disadvantage of having Been considered unorthodox but not heretical. Although it has not received the patronage of popularity, it has been denied the advertisement of antipathy which inevitably accompanies the condemnation of obnoxious tenets, and as a natural consequence it has fallen into the limbo of comparative indifference. For centuries the Church of the West has been so effectually moulded by the one master-mind of Augustine that it requires quite an effort of imagination to perceive that any other type of Christianity is possible, and a still greater effort to inquire whether it would have been better if some other type had been followed. Nevertheless it is conceivable that the course of thought might have taken a different turn. Had it done so, and had the Church transferred its allegiance from the Latin to the Alexandrian school, and followed Clement and Origen instead of Augustine, there can be, no doubt that effects would have been produced upon history far beyond the retired regions of abstract theology. Many will consider that the instinct which selected Augustine as the prince of Christian theology to the neglect of the Alexandrian thinkers is in itself a strong justification for the position of rank and power to which the former has been exalted. Nor No. Clxii. 17 is it difficult to see definite grounds for acquiescing in his preeminence. In one. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<