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catalog created "1931.".
catalog date "1931".
catalog date "1931.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1931.".
catalog description "3. In which the reader is re-introduces to his old friends Adam and Eve, who now are known as Homines Sapientes or Cro-Magnon -- 4. Homo Sapiens and his wife were the monogamist protoparents of all people -- The Three Witnesses: (B) Revelation (continued). (D) Emergence of Religion -- 1. Modern Scholarship agrees that Cro-Magnon was endowed with a religious soul -- 2. In which it appears now philosophy, psychology and anthropology unite to insist that Adam walked with the one God -- VIII. The Three Witnesses: (C) Experience -- 1. If a priori reason and revelation convince you a little better than even chances for the creed, you should make the venture of faith -- 2. Experience must not claim to monopolize all spiritual values since he has been made the a priori reason of God and man -- 3. A posteriori experience confirming ou4r venture of faith".
catalog description "I. Why have a Theistic Religion, supposing we may? -- 1. Because man is by nature incurably religious -- 2. The Necessity of Religion Appears again from its vital value to human life -- 3. The need of religion is shown by the desolating resulting in human lives from its absence -- II. Why Have a Creed? -- 1. The symbolism of the creed is only the crowning act of a system of symbols coterminus with human life -- 2. It is the essence of the scientific method to have a creed -- 3. The creed contains the substance of the Christian faith -- III. The Three Witnesses: (A) Reason. Its Testimony to God -- 1. Only when united to faith can reason qualify as true even in its own sphere -- 2. Reason is the servant, not the superior, of faith -- 3. Reason Specializes in the knowledge of God".
catalog description "IV. The Three Witnesses: (B) Revelation. (A) Modern Difficulties with the Bible -- 1. The Bible alone of all sacred books agrees with science and philosophy about the nature of God -- 2. Christian experience proves the Bible to be an infallible guide in religion -- V. The Three Witnesses: (B) Revelation (continued). (B) Evidence Corroborating the Sacred Guide Book -- 1. From sources parallel to the sacred text comes corroboration or probative contrast -- 2. The unity of the Bible in its religious teaching points to the guiding throughout of an unchanging infinite mind -- 3. Spiritual values, and pre-eminently Holy Scripture, have alone survived the changes of two millenniums -- VI. The Three Witnesses: (B) Revelation (continued). (C) Evolution and Genesis -- 1. Science strongly assures revelation that "In the beginning God created" the physical universe out of nothing -- 2. Science agrees that three are gulfs, impassible to nay except God, between matter and plant-life; between plant-life and conscious (animal life); and between conscious life and self-conscious soul".
catalog description "IX. God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth -- The attributes of God -- 1. Reason through the lips of great modern scholars reveals: (1) The wisdom of God in the universe, (2) The image and likeness of His personal being in man, and (3) The adumbration of His eternity in the human mind -- 2. In which our triumvirate of experts open the question-box -- X. Evidence of God trough Mysticism -- XI. Evil Due to Human Free Will -- 1. We are persons, and personality implies freewill -- 2. Behaviorism: What it is, and the main objections to it -- 3. To human freedom are due the great individualities of History, the priceless gifts of civilization, and even the very fabric of society itself -- XII. The Fall of Man and Suffering -- 1. Mankind began life as the innocent, loving adult child of God -- 2. The children of Homo Sapiens have been ever since paying up for his disobedience -- 3. Man is enrolled by the sweet roles of adversity -- 4. God cares that we suffer".
catalog description "XIII. I Believe in God the Father Almighty and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord and in the Holy Ghost -- The Blessed Trinity -- 1. Reasoning from human personality nature of God indicates that God is a Trinity -- 2. Divine Revelation abundantly sanctions the stand for the blessed trinity taken by reason -- 3. Experiences shows that only the trinity can save nations from collapse and individuals from despair -- XIV. Jesus Christ -- The Deity of Christ (A) Prolegomena -- 1. Reason shows how likely it was that God would become incarnate -- 2. The charge that the historical Jesus was lost nineteen centuries ago in the Jesus-Myth -- 3. Some Mistaken ways of accounting Jesus Divine -- XV. His Only Son -- the Deity of Christ: (B) only the God-Man can unify the modern mind -- 1. Jesus admittedly was perfectly Good: and therefore He must have been God -- 2. Only the fact of His divinity unifies the character and life of Jesus -- 3. Scholars who deny Jesus' deity still find in the son of man their ideal".
catalog description "XIX. He Descended into hell -- the middle place -- 1. Particular Judgment of every soul immediately after his death -- 2. There must be an intermediate state wherein to become perfect -- 3. The divine guide-book maps the intermediate state -- 4. Mystical state here or hereafter are probably necessary preparation for Heaven -- XX. The Third Day He Rose again from the Dead -- 1. The only reasonable explanation of the empty tomb is the resurrection -- 2. Contemporaneous resurrection accounts given by St. Paul and eyewitnesses -- 3. The Conversion of St. Paul by a vision of the risen Christ -- 4. Only the Pashal Mystery can account for the existence of the Church -- 5. Sunday as the Lord's Day of the Church must be referred to the resurrection -- 6. The four-square probative basis of Christianity laid by the risen Christ -- XXI. He Ascended into Heaven, and Sitteth on the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty -- The Ascended Christ essential to modern thought -- 1. The only possible crown of evolution is incarnate deity -- 2. Man is the Hub of the universe only because the Son of Man is both the Hub and the divine Axle -- 3. Jesus endowing the Church with the power of miracles".
catalog description "XVI. Our Lord -- the deity of Christ: (C) Christ the Ultimate Light to his Neighbor and to us far distant in time -- 1. By his Nazareth life Christ converted Jewish peasants into saints, apostles and martyrs of his universal church -- 2. Jesus is "the Light of the World" -- 3. The finality of Christ -- XVII. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary -- The Virgin Birth of Christ -- 1. The Authority of all the best possible witnesses that Jesus had no Father except God -- 2. Natural law and ethnic religions both agree with the virgin birth -- 3. The miraculous conception of Christ was neither a Semitic nor a pagan myth -- 4. What vital values depend on the virgin birth -- XVIII. Suffered from Pontius Pilate, was crucified -- The Atonement -- 1. The Infinite malice of human sin demanded an infinite remedy -- 2. The universal ethnic realization of man's fearful need and God's sacrificial love -- 3. Our salvation cannot be obtained by obedience to the example of Christ -- 4. What attributes of God led to the Atonement -- 5. How the Atonement of nineteen centuries ago redeems us today -- 6. The cross is the Christian standard as to Sin, suffering and service".
catalog description "XXII. From Thence He shall Come to Judge the Quick and the Dead -- The General Judgment -- 1. Jesus now and always present will simply appear at the last day -- 2. Conscience truly voices our personal responsibility for conduct -- 3. Each of us will be his own judge, evidence, jury and verdict -- 4. Memory is your unerring autobiography -- XXIII. I Believe in the Holy Ghost -- 1. Many modern scholars agree that the Holy Ghost and not chance made the world -- 2. The philosophy of history and the latest discoveries in chemistry attest the guiding finger of God -- 3. The supreme artistry of the Holy Spirit is the development of the human personality into Christ-Likeness".
catalog description "XXIV. The Holy Catholic Church -- The Infallible, indefectible Teacher of all Religious Truth -- 1. The Catholic Faith embraces all truth which makes for the glory of God and the salvation of souls -- 2. The blessed spirit dwells in the church and guides her into all his truth -- 3. The reciprocal relation between the infallible church and the individual -- 4. The individual approval of the divine vicar of Christ upon the Church's decree of Biblical inspiration -- 5. Chief objections to the faith and practice of the Catholic Church -- 6. The Catholic Church is indefectible according to reason, revelation and experience -- XXV. The Communion of Saints -- Help from the Church Triumphant -- 1. Why we need the Saints' example and prayers -- 2. The indissoluble bond between Christians in this world and those beyond the veil -- 3. The prayers of the Church triumphant are more efficacious than ours".
catalog description "XXVI. The Forgiveness of Sins -- How Jesus Repeats his Victory in His Disciples -- 1. Grace, not the imitation of Christ, is the primary means of salvation -- 2. Why Even Babies need the "Layer of Regeneration" -- 3. Sins after Baptism may be washed away by absolution -- XXVII. The Resurrection of the Body -- 1. Science showing that our resurrection is probable -- 2. Reason indicates that immortality of the human person must be of both soul and body -- 3. The Bible fully reveals the glory of the resurrection -- 4. The resurrection of the body is now hiddenly developing through grace, especially that of holy communion -- 5. Temporal and eternal values of the resurrection -- XXVIII. And the Life Everlasting -- 1. Our soul exists apart from the brain and it rejects all substitutes for immortality -- 2. Conservation of values of which man's longing soul is chief indicates immortality -- 3. Immortality will be the eternally developing fruition of our spiritual powers, social joys and love of God -- 4. Living in view of eternity consecrates us for society, suffering, and service.".
catalog extent "xxiii, 477, [313] p.".
catalog issued "1931".
catalog issued "1931.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "West Park, N. Y., Holy cross,".
catalog subject "238.1".
catalog subject "Apologetics.".
catalog subject "Apostles' Creed.".
catalog subject "BT993 .H27".
catalog tableOfContents "3. In which the reader is re-introduces to his old friends Adam and Eve, who now are known as Homines Sapientes or Cro-Magnon -- 4. Homo Sapiens and his wife were the monogamist protoparents of all people -- The Three Witnesses: (B) Revelation (continued). (D) Emergence of Religion -- 1. Modern Scholarship agrees that Cro-Magnon was endowed with a religious soul -- 2. In which it appears now philosophy, psychology and anthropology unite to insist that Adam walked with the one God -- VIII. The Three Witnesses: (C) Experience -- 1. If a priori reason and revelation convince you a little better than even chances for the creed, you should make the venture of faith -- 2. Experience must not claim to monopolize all spiritual values since he has been made the a priori reason of God and man -- 3. A posteriori experience confirming ou4r venture of faith".
catalog tableOfContents "I. Why have a Theistic Religion, supposing we may? -- 1. Because man is by nature incurably religious -- 2. The Necessity of Religion Appears again from its vital value to human life -- 3. The need of religion is shown by the desolating resulting in human lives from its absence -- II. Why Have a Creed? -- 1. The symbolism of the creed is only the crowning act of a system of symbols coterminus with human life -- 2. It is the essence of the scientific method to have a creed -- 3. The creed contains the substance of the Christian faith -- III. The Three Witnesses: (A) Reason. Its Testimony to God -- 1. Only when united to faith can reason qualify as true even in its own sphere -- 2. Reason is the servant, not the superior, of faith -- 3. Reason Specializes in the knowledge of God".
catalog tableOfContents "IV. The Three Witnesses: (B) Revelation. (A) Modern Difficulties with the Bible -- 1. The Bible alone of all sacred books agrees with science and philosophy about the nature of God -- 2. Christian experience proves the Bible to be an infallible guide in religion -- V. The Three Witnesses: (B) Revelation (continued). (B) Evidence Corroborating the Sacred Guide Book -- 1. From sources parallel to the sacred text comes corroboration or probative contrast -- 2. The unity of the Bible in its religious teaching points to the guiding throughout of an unchanging infinite mind -- 3. Spiritual values, and pre-eminently Holy Scripture, have alone survived the changes of two millenniums -- VI. The Three Witnesses: (B) Revelation (continued). (C) Evolution and Genesis -- 1. Science strongly assures revelation that "In the beginning God created" the physical universe out of nothing -- 2. Science agrees that three are gulfs, impassible to nay except God, between matter and plant-life; between plant-life and conscious (animal life); and between conscious life and self-conscious soul".
catalog tableOfContents "IX. God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth -- The attributes of God -- 1. Reason through the lips of great modern scholars reveals: (1) The wisdom of God in the universe, (2) The image and likeness of His personal being in man, and (3) The adumbration of His eternity in the human mind -- 2. In which our triumvirate of experts open the question-box -- X. Evidence of God trough Mysticism -- XI. Evil Due to Human Free Will -- 1. We are persons, and personality implies freewill -- 2. Behaviorism: What it is, and the main objections to it -- 3. To human freedom are due the great individualities of History, the priceless gifts of civilization, and even the very fabric of society itself -- XII. The Fall of Man and Suffering -- 1. Mankind began life as the innocent, loving adult child of God -- 2. The children of Homo Sapiens have been ever since paying up for his disobedience -- 3. Man is enrolled by the sweet roles of adversity -- 4. God cares that we suffer".
catalog tableOfContents "XIII. I Believe in God the Father Almighty and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord and in the Holy Ghost -- The Blessed Trinity -- 1. Reasoning from human personality nature of God indicates that God is a Trinity -- 2. Divine Revelation abundantly sanctions the stand for the blessed trinity taken by reason -- 3. Experiences shows that only the trinity can save nations from collapse and individuals from despair -- XIV. Jesus Christ -- The Deity of Christ (A) Prolegomena -- 1. Reason shows how likely it was that God would become incarnate -- 2. The charge that the historical Jesus was lost nineteen centuries ago in the Jesus-Myth -- 3. Some Mistaken ways of accounting Jesus Divine -- XV. His Only Son -- the Deity of Christ: (B) only the God-Man can unify the modern mind -- 1. Jesus admittedly was perfectly Good: and therefore He must have been God -- 2. Only the fact of His divinity unifies the character and life of Jesus -- 3. Scholars who deny Jesus' deity still find in the son of man their ideal".
catalog tableOfContents "XIX. He Descended into hell -- the middle place -- 1. Particular Judgment of every soul immediately after his death -- 2. There must be an intermediate state wherein to become perfect -- 3. The divine guide-book maps the intermediate state -- 4. Mystical state here or hereafter are probably necessary preparation for Heaven -- XX. The Third Day He Rose again from the Dead -- 1. The only reasonable explanation of the empty tomb is the resurrection -- 2. Contemporaneous resurrection accounts given by St. Paul and eyewitnesses -- 3. The Conversion of St. Paul by a vision of the risen Christ -- 4. Only the Pashal Mystery can account for the existence of the Church -- 5. Sunday as the Lord's Day of the Church must be referred to the resurrection -- 6. The four-square probative basis of Christianity laid by the risen Christ -- XXI. He Ascended into Heaven, and Sitteth on the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty -- The Ascended Christ essential to modern thought -- 1. The only possible crown of evolution is incarnate deity -- 2. Man is the Hub of the universe only because the Son of Man is both the Hub and the divine Axle -- 3. Jesus endowing the Church with the power of miracles".
catalog tableOfContents "XVI. Our Lord -- the deity of Christ: (C) Christ the Ultimate Light to his Neighbor and to us far distant in time -- 1. By his Nazareth life Christ converted Jewish peasants into saints, apostles and martyrs of his universal church -- 2. Jesus is "the Light of the World" -- 3. The finality of Christ -- XVII. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary -- The Virgin Birth of Christ -- 1. The Authority of all the best possible witnesses that Jesus had no Father except God -- 2. Natural law and ethnic religions both agree with the virgin birth -- 3. The miraculous conception of Christ was neither a Semitic nor a pagan myth -- 4. What vital values depend on the virgin birth -- XVIII. Suffered from Pontius Pilate, was crucified -- The Atonement -- 1. The Infinite malice of human sin demanded an infinite remedy -- 2. The universal ethnic realization of man's fearful need and God's sacrificial love -- 3. Our salvation cannot be obtained by obedience to the example of Christ -- 4. What attributes of God led to the Atonement -- 5. How the Atonement of nineteen centuries ago redeems us today -- 6. The cross is the Christian standard as to Sin, suffering and service".
catalog tableOfContents "XXII. From Thence He shall Come to Judge the Quick and the Dead -- The General Judgment -- 1. Jesus now and always present will simply appear at the last day -- 2. Conscience truly voices our personal responsibility for conduct -- 3. Each of us will be his own judge, evidence, jury and verdict -- 4. Memory is your unerring autobiography -- XXIII. I Believe in the Holy Ghost -- 1. Many modern scholars agree that the Holy Ghost and not chance made the world -- 2. The philosophy of history and the latest discoveries in chemistry attest the guiding finger of God -- 3. The supreme artistry of the Holy Spirit is the development of the human personality into Christ-Likeness".
catalog tableOfContents "XXIV. The Holy Catholic Church -- The Infallible, indefectible Teacher of all Religious Truth -- 1. The Catholic Faith embraces all truth which makes for the glory of God and the salvation of souls -- 2. The blessed spirit dwells in the church and guides her into all his truth -- 3. The reciprocal relation between the infallible church and the individual -- 4. The individual approval of the divine vicar of Christ upon the Church's decree of Biblical inspiration -- 5. Chief objections to the faith and practice of the Catholic Church -- 6. The Catholic Church is indefectible according to reason, revelation and experience -- XXV. The Communion of Saints -- Help from the Church Triumphant -- 1. Why we need the Saints' example and prayers -- 2. The indissoluble bond between Christians in this world and those beyond the veil -- 3. The prayers of the Church triumphant are more efficacious than ours".
catalog tableOfContents "XXVI. The Forgiveness of Sins -- How Jesus Repeats his Victory in His Disciples -- 1. Grace, not the imitation of Christ, is the primary means of salvation -- 2. Why Even Babies need the "Layer of Regeneration" -- 3. Sins after Baptism may be washed away by absolution -- XXVII. The Resurrection of the Body -- 1. Science showing that our resurrection is probable -- 2. Reason indicates that immortality of the human person must be of both soul and body -- 3. The Bible fully reveals the glory of the resurrection -- 4. The resurrection of the body is now hiddenly developing through grace, especially that of holy communion -- 5. Temporal and eternal values of the resurrection -- XXVIII. And the Life Everlasting -- 1. Our soul exists apart from the brain and it rejects all substitutes for immortality -- 2. Conservation of values of which man's longing soul is chief indicates immortality -- 3. Immortality will be the eternally developing fruition of our spiritual powers, social joys and love of God -- 4. Living in view of eternity consecrates us for society, suffering, and service.".
catalog title "Common sense about religion; being a synopsis of the evidence of reason, revelation and experience as to the truth of the Apostles' creed, by McVeigh Harrison...".
catalog type "text".