{"product_id":"2940014946704","title":"Studies of Christianity: Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers","description":"Studies of Christianity: Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers; A Series of Papers by James Martineau; edited by William R. Alger.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e1858.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe American Unitarian Association in 1835 reprinted from the English edition, among their Tracts, a Sermon on “The Existing State of Theology as an Intellectual Pursuit and of Religion, as a Moral Influence.” Its rare merits elicited great praise. Its author was the Rev. James Martineau, then a settled minister in Liverpool. Since that time, his occasional publications from year to year have been winning a wider audience, and awakening a deeper admiration. The history of his mind has been a broadening track of light. And now the Association feel that they cannot do a greater favor to the reading public, or better aid that cause of Liberal Christianity whose servants they are, than by printing a collection of the later writings of this gifted man, whom they first introduced to American Unitarians a quarter of a century ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe list of works prefixed to the article here entitled “Distinctive Types of Christianity,” as it appeared in the Westminster Review, and the opening sentence referring to them, have been accidentally omitted. Two or three of the papers belong to the author’s earlier years, but are inserted here equally on account of their eminent ability, their special timeliness, and their striking adaptation to the general purpose of the work; namely, to throw light on the true nature of Christianity. They will also be new to most of those whom they now reach. The last paper in the volume is one of the first its writer published, in his comparative youth. We shall be disappointed if the benignant wisdom and moral fidelity of its catholic lessons do not secure a sympathetic response in many a quarter once closed against such appeals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn selecting from Mr. Martineau’s numerous invaluable articles, not already published in book-form, the contents of the present work, the rule has not been so much to choose the ablest productions, as to take those best fitted to meet the wants of the time, by diffusing among ministers, students of divinity, and the cultivated laity a knowledge of the most advanced theological and religious thought yet attained. We regret that the necessary limits of the volume exclude several of the author’s most instructive and inspiring essays; particularly the magnificent one in the National Review upon “Newman, Coleridge, and Carlyle”; also the one upon “Lessing as a Theologian.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003eIntroductory Thoughts from Mr. Martineau’s Writings.\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction.\u003cbr\u003eRelation between Natural and Revealed Religion.\u003cbr\u003eNature of Devotion.\u003cbr\u003eDevotion Is Not a Mistake.\u003cbr\u003e“Theology Is Not a Progressive Science.”\u003cbr\u003eThe Heart of Christianity.\u003cbr\u003eChrist, Nature, Providence, and God.\u003cbr\u003eThe Idea of Vicarious Justice.\u003cbr\u003eDifference between Apprehension and Interpretation.\u003cbr\u003eNecessity of Learning in Philosophy.\u003cbr\u003ePhysical Science and Religion.\u003cbr\u003eLessing’s Theological Conclusions.\u003cbr\u003eThe Redeeming Law of Sympathy.\u003cbr\u003eThe Christian View of Moral Evil.\u003cbr\u003eThe Transmission of Superior Thoughts.\u003cbr\u003eChristianity and Sectarian Theology.\u003cbr\u003eDistinctive Types of Christianity.\u003cbr\u003eChristianity without Priest and without Ritual.\u003cbr\u003eInconsistency of the Scheme of Vicarious Redemption.\u003cbr\u003eMediatorial Religion.\u003cbr\u003eFive Points of Christian Faith.\u003cbr\u003eCreed and Heresies of Early Christianity.\u003cbr\u003eThe Creed of Christendom.\u003cbr\u003eThe Ethics of Christendom.\u003cbr\u003eThe Restoration of Belief.\u003cbr\u003eOne Gospel in Many Dialects.\u003cbr\u003eSt. Paul and His Modern Students.\u003cbr\u003eSin: What It Is, What It Is Not.\u003cbr\u003ePeace in Division: The Duties of Christians in an Age of Controversy","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070803886320,"sku":"2940014946704","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014946704_p0.jpg?v=1763617893","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014946704","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}