Excerpt from The Historical New Testament: Being the Literature of the New Testament Arranged in the Order of Its Literary Growth and According to the Dates of the Documents
The historical rather than the dogmatic character of Christianity, its transmission at least to us in an historical form, is becoming more and more evident. If this be so, how are we to make it yield its voice to the human conscience and to human hopes? We cannot use it as an oracle. We must take possession of it as a history, before we can construct it into a system. Thus to pass behind the veil of antiquity is the only method of rising to a genuine appreciation of the mind of Christ, or of attaining a clear vision of the perfect religion which it enshrines. - Martineau.
Chaque livre de la Bible, appele a son tour, devra marquer sa place dans l"histoire et reveler a la conscience spirituelle son degre de l"inspiriation. Suivant les reponses qu"il aura faites, une part plus ou moins directe lui sera devolue dans l"?uvre de reconstruction du fait de la revelation, a l"aide des sources historiques du canon. Et c"est alors, mais alors seulement, que l"on poura tenter, avec qnelque chance de succes, d"ecrire sur la doctrine chretienne un livre qui reponde a la realite. - Westphal.
Ich bin uberzengt, dass die Bibel immer schoner wird, je mehr man sie versteht, d.h. je mehr man einsieht und anschaut, dass jedes Wort, das wir allgemein auffassen und im besondern auf uns anwenden, nach gewissen Umstanden, nach Zeit- und Ortsverhaltnissen einen eigenen, besondern, unmittelbar individuellen Bezug gehabt hat. - Goethe.
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