Loading…

The Principle of Authority in Relation to Certainty, Sanctity and Society: An Essay in the Philosophy of Experimental Religion is unavailable, but you can change that!

There is only one thing greater than liberty, and that is authority. The conviction in these pages is that the principle of authority is ultimately the whole religious question, that an authority of any practical kind draws its meaning and its right only from the soul’s relation to its God, and this is so not only for religion strictly so called, nor for a church, but for a public life, social...

deliverance is also the holy God of an absolute demand that will not let us go. The One God does nothing by halves. If He is One, He is actively One, He is the Unifier always, and the Reconciler, the Perfecter. So that if He wholly frees us, He wholly claims us and remakes. But He demands nothing which was not involved in our redemption, nothing for which He did not give power when He saved us. The demands of the Kingdom can only be met by the children of the Spirit. The unbroken young Stoic says,
Pages 439–440
Buy this book at Logos.com