Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 10
INTRODUCTORY XOTExiifood of hundreds of Imngiy souls, whose prelections in the Free University are building up a race of theologians imbued with the historical no less than the sj^stematic spirit, and to whose writings men of all parties look for light and inspiration; ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 9
INTRODUCTORY NOTE It givesmyme thegreatest pleasure to respond to the request—Hendrik de Vries, to whom a due from us all for putting into English a vsection of this valuable treatise, that I should in a few words introduce its author to his American audience. I ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 12
INTRODUCTORY NOTEXIVmore conservative period) and Kuenen, he and felt little drawing theological study, and gave himself, therefore, rather to thethat time in hisliad little clearness of religious insighttocultivation of literature under the guidance of P ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 14
INTRODUCTORY NOTExvi Christianity,Heing.and the peopleofGod haveflocked toitslead-cannot, indeed, be credited with the creation ofthe Reformed party in the Cliurch, any more than of the As the year 1840, Anti-revolutiona ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 13
INTRODUCTORY NOTEXVing the stronghold of the Netherlandish Jerusalem with undaunted valor men who did not merely stand on the wall ;and wardoff assaults,but rushed forth from the gates andBut what did I find ? Everywhere a cry Everybody shut up in the hol ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 11
INTRODUCTORY NOTExiiihas grown to a very considerable voluminousness, and touches upon nearly the whole circle of civil and ecclesiastical inter-present-day Netherlands.ests of theAll that existsrather superficial and not very correct sketch of his ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 15
INTRODUCTORY NOTEXVUremarkable literary product for a busy man to have produced when looked at from the point of view of mere quantity when its quality is considered, whether from the ;point of view of richness of style, fulness of details, wideness of view, or force of prese ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 16
:INTRODUCTORY NOTExviiiattractiveness of the style in wliicli it is written, which is never dull, and often rises into real eloquence. It is markedabove all, however, by the frankness with which it is based with whicli on the principles of the Reformed theology. it tak ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 17
INTRODUCTORY NOTE itsEnglish form, and thus thatI Dr. Kuyper to English readers. my own experience that heof Dr.Kuyper's cannotfail tovohune will prove to but the introduction of cannot but feel assuredthij>be, in the literal sense of the ...