Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors

§ 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 Majority. Objections. § 5. Orthodoxy as the Oldest Doctrine. Objections. § 6. Orthodoxy as the Doct...

Chapters

32. Chapter 32

“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...

22. Chapter 22

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...

21. Chapter 21

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...

28. Chapter 28

“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...

30. Chapter 30

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...

26. Chapter 26

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...

31. Chapter 31

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...

23. Chapter 23

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...

20. Chapter 20

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...

29. Chapter 29

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...

25. Chapter 25

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...

18. Chapter 18

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...

27. Chapter 27

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...

17. Chapter 17

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...

19. Chapter 19

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...

24. Chapter 24

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...

16. Chapter 16

§ 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...

10. Chapter 10

§ 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...

13. Chapter 13

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...

7. Chapter 7

§ 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...

14. Chapter 14

§ 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...

6. Chapter 6

§ 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...

3. Chapter 3

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

15. Chapter 15

§ 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. Chapter 1

§ 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...

2. Chapter 2

§ 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...

11. Chapter 11

§ 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....

12. Chapter 12

§ 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...

4. Chapter 4

§ 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...

5. Chapter 5

§ 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...

9. Chapter 9

§ 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...

8. Chapter 8

§ 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...