The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead of inviting, had deterred the Gentiles from embracing... The Freethinker's Magazine and Review of Theology, Politics, and Literature - Side 181851Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Rodney Stark - 2003 - 338 sider
...(The Decline and Fall . . . 1.15) is representative, writing of the "Jewish religion" that it was of "narrow and unsocial spirit, which, instead of inviting,...deterred the gentiles from embracing the law of Moses . . . The sullen obstinacy with which they maintained their peculiar rites and unsocial manners . .... | |
| William Vernon Harris - 2005 - 193 sider
...Fall of the Roman Empire, Book I, chapter i) The inflexible and intolerant . . . zeal of the early Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion,...purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which . . . had deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses. 2) The doctrine of a future life,... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1879 - 451 sider
...the explanation of the " Progress of the Christian Religion" are five in number: " The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant...deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses." "The doctrine of a future life, improved by every additional circumstance which could give weight and... | |
| Noel Emmanuel Lenski - 2006 - 546 sider
...P. Brown at Chadwick 1980, 20. 55 The classic statement is by Gibbon, who listed "[t]he inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians," as the first of five reasons for the success of Christianity at the start of Chapter 16 of his History... | |
| Dave Jiang - 2007 - 498 sider
...that it was most effectually favoured and assisted by the five following causes: I - The inflexible, and if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal...law of Moses. II - The doctrine of a future life, jinprjai£dJhyjg£ry; additifliialcircMmstance.._whiph.,, could giyejeight and efficacy to ...that... | |
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