And because the situation on the whole is this, namely, the profoundest indifference, it is made in turn all too easy for the individual who is a trifle more advanced to become self-important, as though he were the earnest man, a man of character, etc.—There is a young man—he feels indignant about the general lukewarmness […]
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Think now what passion there was in primitive Christianity, without which it never would have come into the world: propose to one of those figures the question, “Dare a Christian tranquillize himself in this way?” “Abominable,” he would reply, “horrible, that a Christian, if only he might be allowed for himself to live as he
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My friend, thou canst look it up in the New Testament. But when what has to be attained by preaching and teaching Christianity is an agreeable, a pleasurable life in a position of prestige, then the picture of Christ must be altered considerably. As for ‘garnishing’ no, there will be no sparing on that: gold,
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If you have hung around Katie and me lately, you may have heard us geeking out about a series of kids DVDs called What’s in the Bible. The series creator, Phil Vischer, also created Veggie Tales. He decided that his previous creation was teaching kids to behave “Christianly” without actually teaching much about Christianity. Hence,
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One of the popular ideas you may see in mainstream media or hear in your UW Religion classes (disclosure: I’m just stereotyping and have no idea if that’s true) is that our modern notion of Christian theology would be unrecognizable to the early church. This is because, it’s said, the current makeup of the Bible
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