Excerpt from The Stewardship of Faith Our Heritage From Early Christianity
The following pages are based on a series of lectures given at the Lowell Institute and in the King"s Chapel in Boston in 1913. They have been rewritten and somewhat enlarged, but not seriously altered.
The title, The Stewardship of Faith, has been given because I feel that the most important fact which emerges from the study of Early Christianity as I have tried to present it, is that the Church owes its position to the endeavour of past generations to hold up to mankind a standard of life in religion, morality, and politics higher than that reached by the world ii general. Christians were men who had seen a vision. Faith was their trust in the Guide who offered to lead them towards it, and Cf that Faith they were the Stewards. It was expressed in many different ways: in a series of theological and metaphysical propositions; in the splendour and pomp of sacramental liturgy; in the imposing structure of Christian ethics.
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