Word: christ
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...earlier Gospels, the works and sayings of Christ are put before the world as miracles and wonders, powerful in themselves, and bearing witness to His divinity. But St. John presents these acts as signs of a power behind, and lays special stress upon Christ's mission as a messenger to transmit the thoughts of God who sent...
Bishop John H. Vincent's latest Chautauqua project is a "Hall of Christ." The hall is to contain a room where the life of Christ can be studied. A library containing only lives of Christ by various authors, and a gallery containing paintings and engravings illustrating scenes in the life of Christ will take up the remaining space in the building...
...Moxom, D. D., of Springfield, Mass., preached last night in Appleton Chapel, taking as his subject the relations of Christ's followers to the rest of the world. He said in part: Those who consider themselves Christians call Jesus master and lord, but few fully realize what following his teaching and leadership really involves. The average Christian is both in the world and out of it. He is generally as much interested in outside matters as any one else, so that there is often no external difference between a church member and a nonchurch member. This fact does not necessarily...
...seek to take away worldly possessions and objects of love from his followers; he rather wished to put them in a position to know the true relations between earthly possessions and spiritual life. As Copernicus was the first to consider the sun the centre of the universe, so Christ put God in the centre of the great universe of human life...
...Christ of the Jews," "Christ of the Gentiles," "The Christ of the Apocrypha," "Scientific Criticism," "Unitarianism, Past, Present and Future," "Imagination in Theology," in the Christian examiner; "The New Religion of Nature," in the Friend of Progress. He also published "The Parables: Stories From the Lips of the Teacher, Retold by a Disciple"; "Stories of the Patriarchs," books for children; a manual for Sunday school and home use; besides a translation of the Critical Essays of Renan...