Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors

“The fundamental formula for the doctrine of the Trinity, as defined by the Church,” says Twesten,(72) “is, that in one divine essence or nature there are three persons, disting...

We now approach the orthodoxy of Orthodoxy—the system of sin and redemption, which constitutes its most essential character. The questions hitherto treated—the natural and super...

The subject of this chapter is the Orthodox idea concerning the inspiration and authority of the Bible. We shall consider the conflict of opinion between those who believe in th...

“I. The bodies of men, after death, return to dust, and see corruption; but their souls (which neither die nor sleep) having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God w...

This statement includes all, or nearly all, of the views held in the Christian Church concerning the condition of departed souls in the other world. We do not propose to examine...

No doctrine of Orthodoxy is more difficult to state to the satisfaction of the Orthodox than this. The reason is, that there is no doctrine concerning which the Orthodox differ...

One of the most interesting questions of the present time, in practical theology, concerns the nature, authority, organization, functions, and future of the Christian Church. Th...

Orthodoxy knows only two states in which man can be found. Man is either in the natural state, and then he is totally depraved; or he is in the supernatural state, in which the...

In considering the truth and error in the Orthodox doctrine concerning miracles, we must, _first_, find out what this doctrine is; _secondly_, see what objections have been urge...

It is a curious fact that, in direct contradiction to Christ’s own explanations concerning his coming, this should frequently be considered by the Orthodox, (1.) as wholly futur...

That portion of the New Testament which speaks so earnestly of justification by faith is by many supposed to have become obsolete for all useful purposes at the present time. Th...

The principle of Orthodoxy is, that there is one true system of Christian doctrine, and that all others are false; that this system can be, and has been, so stated in words as t...

I. “God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever cometh to pass, yet so that neither is God the auth...

The peculiarity of the book now offered to the religious public by the government of the American Unitarian Association, is this—that it is an honest attempt to find and state t...

Orthodox Christianity claims that Christianity is a supernatural revelation, consisting of truths revealed by God, not according to the method of nature, but outside of it. But...

Having considered the Orthodox idea of man in his natural state, and of man in his supernatural state, we next pass to consider the Orthodox idea of Christ’s person and of Chris...

§ 1. Definition of the Church Doctrine. § 2. History of the Doctrine. § 3. Errors in the Church Doctrine of the Trinity. § 4. The Trinity of Manifestations founded in the Truth...

§ 1. Confusion in the Orthodox Statement. § 2. Great Importance attributed to this Doctrine. § 3. Stress laid on the Death of Jesus in the Scripture. § 4. Difficulty in interpre...

Christ The Judge Of The World. § 1. The Coming of Christ is not wholly future, not wholly outward, not local, nor material. § 2. No Second Coming of Christ is mentioned in Scrip...

§ 1. Orthodoxy recognizes only two Conditions in which Man can be found. § 2. Crisis and Development. § 3. Nature of the Change. § 4. Its Reality and Importance. § 5. Is it the...

§ 1. Different Views concerning the Condition of the Impenitent hereafter. § 2. The Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment, as held by the Orthodox at the Present Time. § 3. Apparen...

§ 1. The Question stated. § 2. The four Moments or Characters of Evil. The Fall, Natural Depravity, Total Depravity, Inability. § 3. Orthodox and Liberal View of Man, as morally...

Naturalism And Supernaturalism. § 1. Meaning of Natural and Supernatural. § 2. The Creation Supernatural. § 3. The Question stated. § 4. Argument of the Supernaturalist from suc...

§ 1. The Question stated. § 2. Orthodox Doctrine of the Church—Roman Catholic and High Church. § 3. The Protestant Orthodox Idea of the Church. § 4. Christ’s Idea of a Church, o...

§ 1. Object and Character of this Book. § 2. Progress requires that we should look back as well as forward. § 3. Orthodoxy as Right Belief. § 4. Orthodoxy as the Doctrine of the...

§ 1. The Principle of Orthodoxy defined. § 2. Logical Genesis of the Principle of Orthodoxy. § 3. Orthodoxy assumed to be the Belief of the Majority. § 4. Heterodoxy thus become...

§ 1. Orthodox Doctrine. § 2. Scripture Basis for this Doctrine. § 3. Relation of the Divine Decree to Human Freedom. § 4. History of the Doctrine of Election and Predestination....

§ 1. Orthodox Doctrine. § 2. The Doctrine of Immortality as taught by Reason, the Instinctive Consciousness, and Scripture. § 3. The Three Principal Views of Death—the Pagan, Je...

§ 1. The Subject stated. Four Questions concerning Miracles. § 2. The Definition of a Miracle. § 3. The different Explanations of the Miracles of the Bible. § 4. Criticism on th...

§ 1. Subject of this Chapter. Three Views concerning the Bible. § 2. The Difficulty. Antiquity of the World, and Age of Mankind. § 3. Basis of the Orthodox Theory of Inspiration...

§ 1. This Doctrine of Paul not obsolete. § 2. Its Meaning and Importance. § 3. Need of Justification for the Conscience. § 4. Reaction of Sin on the Soul. § 5. Different Methods...

§ 1. Orthodox Doctrine stated. § 2. This Doctrine gradually developed. § 3. Unitarian Objections. § 4. Substantial Truth in this Doctrine. § 5. Formal Error of the Orthodox Stat...