 Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion. As it appears to us, and as it has appeared for ages, it is not the doctrine of the soul, but an exaggeration of the personal, the positive, the ritual....  Emerson, His Life and Writings - Page 16by January Searle - 1855 - 48 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1901 - 744 pages
...us, and as it has appeared for ages — is not the doctrine of the soul, but an exaggeration of the personal, the positive, the ritual. It has dwelt,...noxious exaggeration about the person of Jesus. The manner in which His name is surrounded with expressions, which were once sallies of admiration and... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...on his tropes. Historical Christianity is not the ' doctrine of the soul, but an exaggeration of the personal, the ' positive, the ritual. It has dwelt, it dwells, with noxious ex' aggeration about the person of Jesus. The soul knoics no ' persona .... By his holy thoughts Jesus... | |
 | 1846 - 844 pages
...Egypt before."t "Historical Christianity is not the doctrine of the soul, but an exaggeration of the personal, the positive, the ritual. It has dwelt,...about the person of JESUS. The soul knows no persons." " By his holy thoughts JBSUS serves us, and thus only."^ S. John writes, " Whosoever denieth the SON,... | |
 | 1851 - 588 pages
...soul's divinity,] but an exaggeration of the personal •" it honours Christ too much ; " it has dwelt with noxious exaggeration about the person of Jesus....man to expand to the full circle of the universe." This would certainly be a most prodigious swelling ; so that the universe could hold only one such... | |
 | 1853 - 642 pages
...us, and as it has appeared for ages, it is not the doctrine of the soul, but an exaggeration of the personal, the positive, the ritual. It has dwelt,...It invites every man to expand to the full circle cf the universe, and will have no preferences but those of spontaneous love. But by this Eastern monarchy... | |
 | 1865 - 402 pages
...grave, and the symbol becomes empty. The figure in which we imbodied and enrobed it is » " The sonl knows no persons. It invites every man to expand to the full circle of the universe, nnd will have no preferences but those of spontaneous love." " That which shows God out of me makes... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...us, and as it has appeared for ages, it is not the doctrine of the soul, but an exaggeration of the personal, the positive, the ritual. It has dwelt, it dwells, with noxious exaggeration about theperson of Jesus. The soul knows no persons. It invites every man to expand to the full circle of... | |
 | 1869 - 580 pages
...us, and as it has appeared for ages, it is not the doctrine of the soul, but an exaggeration of the personal, the positive, the ritual. It has dwelt,...have no preferences but those of spontaneous love. In his recent address, Mr. Emerson rendered a fair service to the Radicalism of the present time. No... | |
 | 1865 - 834 pages
...imbodied and enrobed it is » " The soul knows no persons. It invites every man to expnnd to the fnll circle of the universe, and will have no preferences but those of spontaneous love." " That which shows God out of me makes me a wart and a wen." — £merton'$ Cambridge Address, pp.... | |
 | 1874 - 602 pages
...Christ certainly did not control Spinoza's philosophy. Emerson has said, " Historical Christianity dwells with noxious exaggeration about the person of Jesus. The soul knows no persons." Franck was one of these spiritual men. His books overflow with faith and joy in his Christ. But then... | |
| |
