The Fact of Christ a Series of Lectures
The Fact of Christ a Series of Lectures
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' The idea is so utterly staggering and over- whelming — that is, if one in the least thinks of it — that it is difficult to know what it means to believe it. Even when one admits its logi- cal sequence from the historical facts, and its essential admission in all Christian life and ex- * Of course I do not intend this expression in merely the Ritschlian sense that Christ, having for us in re- ligion the value of God, may be estimated by us as God. The historical-logical argument is to be combi...ned with the religious, and corroborates the latter' s judgment as a fact.
134 THE FACT OF CHRIST perience, still one feels that such knowledge is too high for us, and we cannotattaintoit. Some of the difficulties that are presented to us about it are indeed to be boldly resisted, and even re- sented. For example, we are sometimes re- minded in this connection that we no longer live in pre-Copernican days. This planet, which men used to believe was the center of the universe, and its inhabitants, therefore, at least possibly, the apple of its Creator's eye, we now know to be but a speck amid infinite systems of worlds ; and we are, therefore, scornfully asked if it be not but an insanity to imagine that the Infinite Cause whose universe is in endless space has taken the likeness of the creatures of one of the most infinitesimal of His worlds, and has ' dwelt among us.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
' The idea is so utterly staggering and over- whelming — that is, if one in the least thinks of it — that it is difficult to know what it means to believe it. Even when one admits its logi- cal sequence from the historical facts, and its essential admission in all Christian life and ex- * Of course I do not intend this expression in merely the Ritschlian sense that Christ, having for us in re- ligion the value of God, may be estimated by us as God. The historical-logical argument is to be combi...ned with the religious, and corroborates the latter' s judgment as a fact.
134 THE FACT OF CHRIST perience, still one feels that such knowledge is too high for us, and we cannotattaintoit. Some of the difficulties that are presented to us about it are indeed to be boldly resisted, and even re- sented. For example, we are sometimes re- minded in this connection that we no longer live in pre-Copernican days. This planet, which men used to believe was the center of the universe, and its inhabitants, therefore, at least possibly, the apple of its Creator's eye, we now know to be but a speck amid infinite systems of worlds ; and we are, therefore, scornfully asked if it be not but an insanity to imagine that the Infinite Cause whose universe is in endless space has taken the likeness of the creatures of one of the most infinitesimal of His worlds, and has ' dwelt among us.
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