{"product_id":"9781941489314","title":"The Net of Faith: The Corruption of the Church, Caused by its Fusion and Confusion with Temporal Power","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Net of Faith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Corruption of the Church, Caused by its Fusion and Confusion with Temporal Power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving thus learned the essence of Chelčický’s teaching, I with much greater impatience waited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor the appearance of The Net of Faith in the journal of the Academy. But\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea year, two, three years passed, and the book did not appear. Only in 1888 I learned that the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprinting of the book, which had been begun, had come to a stop. I got the proof-sheets of as much\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas had been printed, and I read the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is in every respect remarkable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contents are quite correctly rendered by Pýpin. Chelčický’s fundamental idea is this, that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristianity,having united with the power in the time of Constantine and having continued to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edevelop under these conditions, has become absolutely corrupt and has ceased to be Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title “The Net of Faith,” was given by Chelčický to his work, because, taking for his motto the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003everse of the Gospel about calling the disciples to become fishers of men, Chelčický, continuing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethis comparison, says, “Christ by means of His disciples caught in His net of faith the whole\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworld, but the larger fish, tearing the net, jumped out of it, and through the holes, which these\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elarger fish had made, all the others went away, and the net was left almost empty.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeo Tolstoy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe large fish that broke through the net are the rulers, emperors, popes, kings, who, in not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erenouncing their power, did not accept Christianity, but its semblance only.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Audio Enlightenment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062415048944,"sku":"9781941489314","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941489314_p0.jpg?v=1763755501","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941489314","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}