Excerpt from The Theology of Christ: From His Own Words
Recent discussions of Christianity as a Faith have revolved about Christ as a Person; and the Life of Christ, that formerly was shaped into biography for the instruction of the young and the edification of the devout, has become an effective weapon of theological polemics. But while within the sphere of theology this new significance has been given to the Life of Christ, the Theology of Christ Himself has hardly received the distinction due to it as the formative power in the Christian system both as to faith and to practice. The doctrine of Christ was of the very essence of His life, and constitutes the true and vital Christianity. "I am the light of the world; he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."
This book does not attempt to delineate the life of Christ, but to evolve, directly and exclusively from His own words, the Doctrine that He taught. Theology has been too much the name of speculative systems, the product of philosophy applied to the Scriptures, or of some spiritual experience evolved from an individual soul and then supplemented from the Scriptures.
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