Word: hartt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very difficult for a sort of Zeus to take the form of a man and do the things that He did. It is definitely more remarkable that a mere human saw the truth and had the strength to live by it; such, at least, is the burden of Mr. Hartt's thesis...
...those who have had their thoughts on religion rudely unsettled by the melee, Mr. Hartt brings a great deal of assistance in this study of the life of the Nazarene. For a layman to judge of the accuracy of his conception were folly; but for the writer at any rate, it is the most convincing portrait of Christ that has come into his hands. And that because it seems to be more true than most. The author's method is clearly outlined in the first paragraph of his foreword: "Beginning and keeping on uninterruptedly to the very end, I have...
...there you have it; Mr. Hartt was at a divinity school where no one had read the Bible all the way through from beginning to end, but only a passage at a time. It was his idea that such manner of reading invited gross misinterpretation. He proves that this is so, and shows us a Man so much more real, so much more believeable, than the traditional figure obscured by myth, that at times one's breath is taken away by the very simplicity of the truth; and by the beauty of it more. For instance, everyone will recall...
...shamefully incidental scrap in which the evangelical church is engaged," said Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick (Modernist) last week. On the contrary, Rollin Lynde Hartt (Modernist) after a trip from coast to coast, reports that the row has just begun, that Fundamentalists everywhere are planning a real fight to kill Modernism...