Christianity Is Christ (Cold Spring Harbor Monograph) - Tapa blanda

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Person of its Founder. A man can be a faithful Mohammedan without in the least concerning himself with the person of Mohammed. So also a man can be a true and faithful Buddhist without knowing anything whatever about Buddha. It is quite different with Christianity. Christianity is so inextricably bound up with Christ that our view of the Person of Christ involves and determines our view of Christianity. The relation of Jesus Christ to Christianity differs entirely from that of all other founders towards the religions of phil osophies which bear their names. Platonism, for example, may be defined as a method of philosophic thought from Plato; Moham medanism as the belief in the revelation vouchsafed toM ohammed; Buddhism as the following of principles enunciated by Buddha. But Christianity is an essence adherence to the Person of Jesus Christ. It has also been pointed out that Christianity alone of the great religions of the world calls itself by the name of its Founder, and that while we call other religions by the names of their founders, the adherents of these religions do not call themselves by these names. 2T his fact is full of very deep meaning. Does it riot inevitably suggest that the connection between Chris1. F. J. Foakes-J ackson, inC ambridge Theological Essays, p. 474. 2R. E. Speer. The Deity of Christ, p. 1.
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