New Testament History: A Study of the Beginnings of Christianity
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Overview
This book from Dr. Harris Franklin Rall, breaks down the New Testament history from the birth of Jesus Christ to the Jerusalem Church through the ministry of Paul and the Roman Empire, and the later Church of 600-700 A.D. About the Author Harris Franklin Rall (1870-1964), Ph. D. was the first president of Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado from 1910- 1915. He also served as Henry White Warren professor of Practical Theology. Rall authored twenty-four books like the Teachings of Jesus, New Testament History, Christianity, an Inquiry into Its Nature and Truth, and A Working Faith. His work on the teachings of Jesus reflected the values of early liberalism. Rall later became president of Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Illinois.
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Top Highlights
“But men were asking deeper questions, about deliverance from sorrow and sin and death, about the hope of a life to come. The time of individualism was coming; men wanted a life for themselves, and not simply as part of a city or nation. The old faiths had no answer for these questions.” (Page 17)
“The change is more apparent when we realize that in the Psalms, Israel’s book of worship, Jehovah is never called upon as Father.” (Page 77)
“The heart of Jesus’ thought of God is the idea of Fatherhood” (Page 77)
“A very little study shows how deep the differences are. It is enough to point out two. (1) The salvation which Christianity offered was ethical. While these religions relied upon rites and magic, Christianity put at the center a new spirit and a new life. It met the final problem: not how to save men from, sorrow, or even from death, but how to save them from sin, to make character. (2) These religions built upon a myth, a tale; Christianity came with a great historic fact—Christ as the revelation of the will of God, as the bearer of the mercy and help of God.” (Page 19)
“The Stoic picture of the wise man is even nobler, the man who is strong, self-contained, unmoved by outward conditions of good or evil, showing the same spirit toward the evil and the good.” (Page 17)
- Title: New Testament History: A Study of the Beginnings of Christianity
- Author: Harris Franklin Rall
- Publisher: Wordsearch
- Print Publication Date: 1914
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. › History
- Resource ID: LLS:WS_FA0C67C578DC401D8C9718EB54839281
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2021-06-08T19:50:37Z