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. 1914 Excerpt: ...Christianity in general, and of itself in particular, through the challenges of various opposing agencies from without. Two forms of error led the Christian consciousness of the second century to describe with increasing clearness and amplitude what the notion of the Church was understood to be. These two errors were ...
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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. 1914 Excerpt: ...Christianity in general, and of itself in particular, through the challenges of various opposing agencies from without. Two forms of error led the Christian consciousness of the second century to describe with increasing clearness and amplitude what the notion of the Church was understood to be. These two errors were Gnosticism and Montanism. The former was intellectual, the latter moral. The Gnostic claim to the sole possession of intellectual and speculative truth forced the Christian apologist to consider the Church chiefly, although by no means exclusively, as the Institution for the reception and preservation of religious truth. This aspect of the Church's nature and purpose is uppermost in the teaching of St. Irenaeus. The fact by no means implies that this aspect of the Church's purpose was a new discovery, or a departure from something else, or a development in the sense of a deviation. It only means that the capacities of an Institution upon which main stress us is laid are naturally those elicited by contemporary conditions in the world around. The Church was certainly not conscious of itself as the receptacle of revelation first in the age of Irenaeus. This is obvious enough from the Epistles of St. Paul. But the questions of retention and transmission of truth were peculiarly urgent in face of the opposition of the Gnostic claims. The second form of antagonism to the Church was that of Montanism. Montanism was ecstatic pietism. It was a vigorous moral enthusiasm, but also individualistic in the extreme. Its interests were religious rather than theological. It contemplated with profound concern and repugnance the Church's inconsistencies and defects. It desiderated a higher standard than one which allowed concessions to human frailty. It was rigo...
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