CHRISTIAN DOGMATICS - Softcover

Oosterzee, J. J. Van

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1443213497 ISBN 13: 9781443213493

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...as to the historical character of Holy Scripture to that as to its Divine origin, must not be made without a word of self-defence in regard to an objection frequently repeated and apparently well founded. Where, namely, we rest the doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture upon that of its historic trustworthiness, we are accused of arguing in a vicious circle. "The Scripture utters the word of God, because it is inspired; and that it is inspired, you prove by an appeal to the Scripture." It is even so; and how could it possibly be otherwise? But when we appeal to the Scripture itself to bring into full light its Theopneustia, we appeal to it exclusively as a trustworthy historic document. We thus reason: if once its trustworthiness is established, then also the words, facts, etc., with which we shall further have to do, are indisputably true. If that is so, then we ask yet further: what is to be legitimately deduced therefrom in regard to the person and activity of those by whom the Saving Revelation was recorded for us in writing? Thus, without moving in a circle, we ascend gradually from the credibility of the Holy Scriptures to the investigation as to their Divine character. In other words, we put the questions: Is there indeed good reason for speaking, in regard to the sacred writers, of an especial enlightenment and guidance by the Holy Spirit? And if so, what conception have we in consequence to form to ourselves of the Doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture? It is here consequently a question of well-established historic testimony and of accurate dogmatic distinctions, in order that not only the that (the fact) but also the how (the mode) of the inspiration may be brought into a clear light. I. 1. If in reviewing the series of Testimonies...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1443213497
• ISBN 13: 9781443213493
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204