"The Church and Modern Life" from Washington Gladden. Leading American Congregational pastor and early leader in the Social Gospel movement (1836-1918).
"The Church and Modern Life" from Washington Gladden. Leading American Congregational pastor and early leader in the Social Gospel movement (1836-1918...
The aim of this volume is to put into compact and popular form, for the benefit of intelligent readers, the principal facts upon which scholars are now generally agreed concerning the literary history of the Bible. The doctrines taught in the Bible will not be discussed; its claims to a supernatural origin will not be the principal matter of inquiry; the book will concern itself chiefly with those purely natural and human agencies which have been employed in writing, transcribing, editing, preserving, transmitting, translating, and publishing the Bible.
The aim of this volume is to put into compact and popular form, for the benefit of intelligent readers, the principal facts upon which scholars are no...
"The time is come," said a New Testament prophet, "for judgment to begin at the house of God." Perhaps that time ought never to pass, but if, in any measure, the criticism of the church has of late been suspended, it is certainly reopened now, in good earnest. Nor is this criticism confined to outsiders; the church is forced to listen in these days to caustic censures from those who speak from within the fold.
"The time is come," said a New Testament prophet, "for judgment to begin at the house of God." Perhaps that time ought never to pass, but if, in any m...
