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The leading objections against Christianity have been the same In all time, and Dr. Hettinger, in dealing with them, naturally takes the Fathers and Schoolmen for his guides. These objections fall always under two chief heads. The rationalists, like the Jews, deny the fact of Revelation, the sceptics, like the Gentiles, its possibility. And neither Paulus or the older rationalists, or Strauss, or Renan, or any of the more modern type, have added substantially to the a priori arguments of Trypho and Celsus. In fact, the two former explain the Resurrection in the very words of Celsus, as the mere invention of a deluded woman. To a whole class of sceptical ex planations of a similar kind the words of Origen fitly apply, that the incredible character of such asser tions palpably betray their falsehood.1 Yet they pass current. The letters of the Mahatmas find evidence where the Epistles of St. Paul are rejected.

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The claims of Christianity are to be tested, according to the modern scientific method, like those of any human Creed. Its origin must be sought in the ideas, political, philosophical, religious, current at its birth, and their influence on the mind of its Founder. Its moral worth will be determined by its agreement with the conclusions of reason, and its power of satisfying the higher needs of mankind. Thus, religion is treated like a philosophy or a language, as merely the product of human thought, and the notion of Revelation is set aside. Now Reason may indeed reject a creed as worthless, if its doctrines, though professedly revealed, are manifestly absurd or licentious, as are those of Mahomedanism. But where the morality is undoubtedly pure, as is the case with Christianity, the only logical mode of inquiry is to examine, not the nature of the doctrines, in themselves professedly incomprehensible, but the external evidence for the fact that those doctrines are a revelation from God. Such is the method pursued by the earlier Christian apologists, and adopted in the present volume.

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