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- catalog contributor b3225844.
- catalog created "1937.".
- catalog date "1937".
- catalog date "1937.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1937.".
- catalog description "10. The apostolic age : The Acts presupposes the gospels, and evidence exists that teaching on forgiveness was given by the apostles ; The commission to forgive is interpreted to mean the proclamation of forgiveness and the re-administration of baptism as the means of forgiveness ; Post-baptismal sin is washed away by repentance, by the sacrament of the Lord's supper, and by mutual confession ; In St. Paul's epistles, the germ of a disciplinary system can be seen ; In Hebrews, we hear for the first time of irremissible sins of apostasy, bloodshed, and adultery ; St. John does not advise intercession for a sin unto death ; In this period forgiving-ness in clearly taught ; The growth of the rigorist system w2asdue to persecution and encouraged by teaching on the "Two Ways" ; Summary of teaching -- ".
- catalog description "11. ".
- catalog description "2. ".
- catalog description "3. Between the testaments : The new world of ideas consequent on the Hellenistic movement favors universalism ; The literature of the period ; The supremacy of the law ; The writers advance in their conception of God who loves all he has created ; They speculate on the origin of sin, and teach that sin may be one of thought ; Forgiveness of sins is prominently taught, and may be obtained by repentance, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, suffering, mediatorship, death, works of the righteous, and by human forgiveness ; Views on the meaning of forgiveness are very much like those of Jesus -- 4. The Christian conception of God : This may be discovered from the Lord's prayer ; Jesus emphasises the thought of God as Father of all men whom he loves impartially ; God is Father in three senses, of Jesus, of his disciples by adoption, of all men by creation ; Jesus taught be what he was, what he said, and what he did -- ".
- catalog description "5. Forgiveness : Forgiveness in the Old and New Testaments compared ; Its enrichment in the latter ; References to forgiveness in the New Testament ; The meaning of aphesis ; Justification and forgiveness ; Grace, mercy, and forgiveness -- 6. Repentance and sin in the gospels : John the Baptist's meaning of repentance is a moral change, but Jesus in his teaching in the prodigal son develops and deepens the spiritual and Godward side of the teaching of the prophets ; This wider repentance does not include forgiveness of other men ; True repentance must include an attitude to man ; Jesus teaches that sin is like a disease, a moral pollution, a debt, and slavery; it is also an act of will".
- catalog description "7. The Lord's prayer : Jesus taught it to those within the kingdom ; In the prayer and its corollary human forgiveness is emphasised ; What the petition implies and what it does not ; Human forgiveness, like the divine, is conditional -- ".
- catalog description "8. ".
- catalog description "9. Forgiveness of sins and the cross : The meaning of Christ's death ; At the last supper Jesus returns love for betrayal ; The first word from the ross is one of forgiveness; the second likewise ; The fourth can on psychological grounds be shown to be a victory over a complex of doubt which Jesus had driven into the unconscious ; The cross reveals what our want of love costs God and is an incentive to forgiving-ness -- ".
- catalog description "I : 1. The pre-prophetic age : Our study begins with the revelation of God's name, Jehovah, and his character to Moses ; Evidence exists that God was known to the patriarchs as El ; Jehovah accepted as God of Israel by a covenant, whose terms were the Ten commandments ; Hebrew modes of thought ; Corporate personality ; The meaning of the covenant ; Sin was a breach of the covenant ; The character of Jehovah held to be two-sided, forgiving and implacable ; Ideas of Hebrew writers illustrated by the visit of the spies, the Amalekites ; the sons of Eli, the adultery of David ; Forgiveness later seen to be distinct from the mitigation of punishment, for Jehovah remained true to the covenant in spite of Israel's sin ; Human forgiveness not unknown -- ".
- catalog description "II. A rational of forgiveness : 12. Human forgiveness and repentance : The elements of each show that forgiving-ness is almost universally absent in repentance ; Comparison of the two conditions for forgiveness show that the primacy of forgiving-ness are justified ; It is a sharing of God's nature, is unselfish, is self-sacrificing, makes greater claims on spiritual energy, and is supported by a psychological analysis as being essentially unselfish ; As it refers to acts done against us, and not by us, there is in forgiving-ness a sense of love which overshadows a sense of sin ; It also makes for fellowship, gives joy, is saved from the dangers of emotionalism and mechanical effort ; Forgiveness the great need of the world -- 13. The duty of forgiveness : Jesus adds the duty towards our neighbour to the Jewish Shema and thus transforms religion ; Differences between the Jewish and Christian ideal show two systems in conflict ; The Christian ideal is that of a church with obligations to God and man ; The new sonship is that of God and not that of Abraham ; The new ideal is self-surrender ; The new commands are enforced by Christ's personal authority ; The new test of the ideal is peculiarly Christian and is that of forgiving-ness -- 14. Ethics and forgiveness : Four arguments against the Christian ideal stated and discussed : 1. To love to order is hypocrisy ; 2. It is ethically wrong to forgive in all cases ; 3. It is not un-moral to give free play to the instinct of pugnacity ; 4. Forgiveness of God should include remission of penalty ; The Great Reality is a personal Being -- 15. Divine forgiveness : The assurance of forgiveness is faith in Christ ; The experiences of forgiving and of being forgiven described ; Human forgiveness is an index to the divine ; Forgiveness, fellowship, and friendship as the work of the Holy Spirit.".
- catalog description "Teaching by parables, miracles, and sayings : The parable of the unmerciful servant supports the Lord's prayer, and teaches that divine forgiveness is analogous to human ; Men ought to forgive without ceasing ; The prodigal son gives Christ's views on true Jewish repentance ; It does not contain the whole gospel of forgiveness, for it was spoken to Pharisees and scribes, and therefore the place of forgiving-ness is only hinted at ; The parable teaches three principles: the meaning of repentance, the nature of forgiveness, and the need of practicing forgiveness ; The father is the ideal of all earthly fathers ; The sick of the palsy teaches us that forgiveness is the prerogative of God, and that Jesus claimed the power to forgive ; The woman who was a sinner shows that forgiveness is the prerogative of God, and that Jesus claimed the power to forgive ; The woman who was a sinner shows that forgiveness is followed by love ; The Pharisee and the publican, ".
- catalog description "The later history of forgiveness : A general review of the teaching of the literature ; The theory of irremissible sins unknown for two centuries, but repentance for all sins taught by Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, the Didache, and in the Epistle to the Corinthians ; The "Two Ways" is taught ; The Shepherd of Hermas advises against extreme rigorism, and allows one repentance for post-baptismal sin ; Early in the third century a public disciplinary system is in operation, and is defined by Tertullian, who allows a second repentance ; Later he becomes rigorist, and mentions six mortal sins which are irremissible ; He argues against the bishop's power to forgiven sins ; Origen is as critical as Tertullian on the power of bishops to forgive by virtue of their office and gives seven modes of gaining forgiveness ; Cyprian gives the death-blow to the theory of irremissible sins, ".
- catalog description "The prophetic age : Amos sets forth God as righteous, to whom moral sins were abhorrent ; Hosea proclaims him as God of love, from which love of man for man cannot be separated; he therefore anticipates the Christian view of forgiveness ; Micah has a lyrical poem on forgiveness; he teaches that religion has to be cultivated ; Jeremiah proclaims the principle of individual religion and a new covenant ; The unit is not the nation, as earlier prophets had taught, but the individual; each man sins, but each can seek forgiveness ; He has no idea of the necessity of human forgiveness as a religious duty ; Ezekiel is a philosopher ; He teaches individual responsibility, and argues that there is no connection between God's forgiveness and man's external condition ; Every man has the freedom to choose between good and evil, ".
- catalog description "and God will help him ; Forgiveness by God is essential to the new life ; The second Isaiah is the great prophet of forgiveness ; God the redeemer will abundantly pardon ; But forgiveness is for Israel only ; Repentance is, in all the prophets, the means of forgiveness ; The priestly code speaks of an unforgivable sin and of human forgiveness as a duty ; The proverbs do not encourage retaliation ; Job teaches the duty to our neighbor ; The psalms set forth various conceptions of God's character, speak of forgiveness after repentance, and have at least three references to the joy of forgiveness ; Summary of old testament teaching on forgiveness -- ".
- catalog description "and grants reconciliation for all sins ; There is yet not idea of sacramental absolution ; Cyprian lays great stress on forgiving-ness as a condition of God's forgiveness ; After some time the idea of one repentance disappears ; With the conversion of Constantine, public discipline is relaxed, and different systems are tried in its place, and by the twelfth century private confession with absolution is accepted as a sacrament, necessary for post-baptismal sin".
- catalog description "that forgiveness is of no merit of ours ; The call of Simon teaches the attitude of the penitent ; The rich man and Lazarus may teach that a forgiving spirit is shown in the unseen world ; the tower in Siloam is a call to repentance ; Mark iv. 10-12 is probably a theory of the Christian church to explain why the mass of the Jews did not accept Christianity ; The unforgivable sin is a state of sin and not an act ; The power to bind and loose is disciplinary in the context in Matthew, for it deals with a private quarrel ; The power to forgive and retain sins is bestowed on the church and not on individuals; its interpretation to be seen in the history of the apostolic church ; Baptism and forgiveness of sins -- ".
- catalog extent "xviii, 339 p.".
- catalog issued "1937".
- catalog issued "1937.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark,".
- catalog subject "234".
- catalog subject "BT795 .R4".
- catalog subject "Forgiveness of sin.".
- catalog tableOfContents "10. The apostolic age : The Acts presupposes the gospels, and evidence exists that teaching on forgiveness was given by the apostles ; The commission to forgive is interpreted to mean the proclamation of forgiveness and the re-administration of baptism as the means of forgiveness ; Post-baptismal sin is washed away by repentance, by the sacrament of the Lord's supper, and by mutual confession ; In St. Paul's epistles, the germ of a disciplinary system can be seen ; In Hebrews, we hear for the first time of irremissible sins of apostasy, bloodshed, and adultery ; St. John does not advise intercession for a sin unto death ; In this period forgiving-ness in clearly taught ; The growth of the rigorist system w2asdue to persecution and encouraged by teaching on the "Two Ways" ; Summary of teaching -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "11. ".
- catalog tableOfContents "2. ".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. Between the testaments : The new world of ideas consequent on the Hellenistic movement favors universalism ; The literature of the period ; The supremacy of the law ; The writers advance in their conception of God who loves all he has created ; They speculate on the origin of sin, and teach that sin may be one of thought ; Forgiveness of sins is prominently taught, and may be obtained by repentance, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, suffering, mediatorship, death, works of the righteous, and by human forgiveness ; Views on the meaning of forgiveness are very much like those of Jesus -- 4. The Christian conception of God : This may be discovered from the Lord's prayer ; Jesus emphasises the thought of God as Father of all men whom he loves impartially ; God is Father in three senses, of Jesus, of his disciples by adoption, of all men by creation ; Jesus taught be what he was, what he said, and what he did -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "5. Forgiveness : Forgiveness in the Old and New Testaments compared ; Its enrichment in the latter ; References to forgiveness in the New Testament ; The meaning of aphesis ; Justification and forgiveness ; Grace, mercy, and forgiveness -- 6. Repentance and sin in the gospels : John the Baptist's meaning of repentance is a moral change, but Jesus in his teaching in the prodigal son develops and deepens the spiritual and Godward side of the teaching of the prophets ; This wider repentance does not include forgiveness of other men ; True repentance must include an attitude to man ; Jesus teaches that sin is like a disease, a moral pollution, a debt, and slavery; it is also an act of will".
- catalog tableOfContents "7. The Lord's prayer : Jesus taught it to those within the kingdom ; In the prayer and its corollary human forgiveness is emphasised ; What the petition implies and what it does not ; Human forgiveness, like the divine, is conditional -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "8. ".
- catalog tableOfContents "9. Forgiveness of sins and the cross : The meaning of Christ's death ; At the last supper Jesus returns love for betrayal ; The first word from the ross is one of forgiveness; the second likewise ; The fourth can on psychological grounds be shown to be a victory over a complex of doubt which Jesus had driven into the unconscious ; The cross reveals what our want of love costs God and is an incentive to forgiving-ness -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "I : 1. The pre-prophetic age : Our study begins with the revelation of God's name, Jehovah, and his character to Moses ; Evidence exists that God was known to the patriarchs as El ; Jehovah accepted as God of Israel by a covenant, whose terms were the Ten commandments ; Hebrew modes of thought ; Corporate personality ; The meaning of the covenant ; Sin was a breach of the covenant ; The character of Jehovah held to be two-sided, forgiving and implacable ; Ideas of Hebrew writers illustrated by the visit of the spies, the Amalekites ; the sons of Eli, the adultery of David ; Forgiveness later seen to be distinct from the mitigation of punishment, for Jehovah remained true to the covenant in spite of Israel's sin ; Human forgiveness not unknown -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "II. A rational of forgiveness : 12. Human forgiveness and repentance : The elements of each show that forgiving-ness is almost universally absent in repentance ; Comparison of the two conditions for forgiveness show that the primacy of forgiving-ness are justified ; It is a sharing of God's nature, is unselfish, is self-sacrificing, makes greater claims on spiritual energy, and is supported by a psychological analysis as being essentially unselfish ; As it refers to acts done against us, and not by us, there is in forgiving-ness a sense of love which overshadows a sense of sin ; It also makes for fellowship, gives joy, is saved from the dangers of emotionalism and mechanical effort ; Forgiveness the great need of the world -- 13. The duty of forgiveness : Jesus adds the duty towards our neighbour to the Jewish Shema and thus transforms religion ; Differences between the Jewish and Christian ideal show two systems in conflict ; The Christian ideal is that of a church with obligations to God and man ; The new sonship is that of God and not that of Abraham ; The new ideal is self-surrender ; The new commands are enforced by Christ's personal authority ; The new test of the ideal is peculiarly Christian and is that of forgiving-ness -- 14. Ethics and forgiveness : Four arguments against the Christian ideal stated and discussed : 1. To love to order is hypocrisy ; 2. It is ethically wrong to forgive in all cases ; 3. It is not un-moral to give free play to the instinct of pugnacity ; 4. Forgiveness of God should include remission of penalty ; The Great Reality is a personal Being -- 15. Divine forgiveness : The assurance of forgiveness is faith in Christ ; The experiences of forgiving and of being forgiven described ; Human forgiveness is an index to the divine ; Forgiveness, fellowship, and friendship as the work of the Holy Spirit.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Teaching by parables, miracles, and sayings : The parable of the unmerciful servant supports the Lord's prayer, and teaches that divine forgiveness is analogous to human ; Men ought to forgive without ceasing ; The prodigal son gives Christ's views on true Jewish repentance ; It does not contain the whole gospel of forgiveness, for it was spoken to Pharisees and scribes, and therefore the place of forgiving-ness is only hinted at ; The parable teaches three principles: the meaning of repentance, the nature of forgiveness, and the need of practicing forgiveness ; The father is the ideal of all earthly fathers ; The sick of the palsy teaches us that forgiveness is the prerogative of God, and that Jesus claimed the power to forgive ; The woman who was a sinner shows that forgiveness is the prerogative of God, and that Jesus claimed the power to forgive ; The woman who was a sinner shows that forgiveness is followed by love ; The Pharisee and the publican, ".
- catalog tableOfContents "The later history of forgiveness : A general review of the teaching of the literature ; The theory of irremissible sins unknown for two centuries, but repentance for all sins taught by Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, the Didache, and in the Epistle to the Corinthians ; The "Two Ways" is taught ; The Shepherd of Hermas advises against extreme rigorism, and allows one repentance for post-baptismal sin ; Early in the third century a public disciplinary system is in operation, and is defined by Tertullian, who allows a second repentance ; Later he becomes rigorist, and mentions six mortal sins which are irremissible ; He argues against the bishop's power to forgiven sins ; Origen is as critical as Tertullian on the power of bishops to forgive by virtue of their office and gives seven modes of gaining forgiveness ; Cyprian gives the death-blow to the theory of irremissible sins, ".
- catalog tableOfContents "The prophetic age : Amos sets forth God as righteous, to whom moral sins were abhorrent ; Hosea proclaims him as God of love, from which love of man for man cannot be separated; he therefore anticipates the Christian view of forgiveness ; Micah has a lyrical poem on forgiveness; he teaches that religion has to be cultivated ; Jeremiah proclaims the principle of individual religion and a new covenant ; The unit is not the nation, as earlier prophets had taught, but the individual; each man sins, but each can seek forgiveness ; He has no idea of the necessity of human forgiveness as a religious duty ; Ezekiel is a philosopher ; He teaches individual responsibility, and argues that there is no connection between God's forgiveness and man's external condition ; Every man has the freedom to choose between good and evil, ".
- catalog tableOfContents "and God will help him ; Forgiveness by God is essential to the new life ; The second Isaiah is the great prophet of forgiveness ; God the redeemer will abundantly pardon ; But forgiveness is for Israel only ; Repentance is, in all the prophets, the means of forgiveness ; The priestly code speaks of an unforgivable sin and of human forgiveness as a duty ; The proverbs do not encourage retaliation ; Job teaches the duty to our neighbor ; The psalms set forth various conceptions of God's character, speak of forgiveness after repentance, and have at least three references to the joy of forgiveness ; Summary of old testament teaching on forgiveness -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "and grants reconciliation for all sins ; There is yet not idea of sacramental absolution ; Cyprian lays great stress on forgiving-ness as a condition of God's forgiveness ; After some time the idea of one repentance disappears ; With the conversion of Constantine, public discipline is relaxed, and different systems are tried in its place, and by the twelfth century private confession with absolution is accepted as a sacrament, necessary for post-baptismal sin".
- catalog tableOfContents "that forgiveness is of no merit of ours ; The call of Simon teaches the attitude of the penitent ; The rich man and Lazarus may teach that a forgiving spirit is shown in the unseen world ; the tower in Siloam is a call to repentance ; Mark iv. 10-12 is probably a theory of the Christian church to explain why the mass of the Jews did not accept Christianity ; The unforgivable sin is a state of sin and not an act ; The power to bind and loose is disciplinary in the context in Matthew, for it deals with a private quarrel ; The power to forgive and retain sins is bestowed on the church and not on individuals; its interpretation to be seen in the history of the apostolic church ; Baptism and forgiveness of sins -- ".
- catalog title "The forgiveness of sins, by E. Basil Redlich.".
- catalog type "text".