...has its roots in the sombre and confused superstitions of the savage. Fear, as Statius and Fetronius tell us, created the gods of this religion. These...development in prophecy was towards an autonomous mora ity based on a spiritual valuation of life. Its quarrel with sacerdotalism was mainly directed...

...Church were painted in the most vivid colours. But in the official and popular Christian eschalology, as in the terrestrial theodicy of the Old Testament,...sacerdotalism was mainly directed against the unethical to&w-morality of the priesthood; the revolt was grounded in a lofty moral idealism, which found expression...

...second mitigation of our difficulty is that God is working through the silence. The aphorism of Schiller that " the history of the world is the judgment of the world " is endlessly true. God stands back among the shadows and gives no sign ; but He still wieldsthe sceptre...

...also lost a continent. Neglect of the advice of these sages tempts us to agree with Schiller and Hegel that the history of the world is the judgment of the world. Erasmus and Burke are as convinced that man is naturally religious as Aristotle was that he was naturally...

...there are some who would maintain that it is overdrawn. But it is, unfortunately, demonstrably true. "The history of the world is the judgment of the world," and the evidences of the EDITORIAL COMMENT iniquity, the rapacity, the horrible uncleanness, the mercilessness,...

...evils of other countries ?" May an answer not be found in the bolder, but not less reverent declaration that "the history of the world is the judgment of the world," and that by consequence the world will run a risk of never being "judged" at all, if nations shut their...

...there are some who would maintain that it is overdrawn. But it is, unfortunately, demonstrably true. "The history of the world is the judgment of the world," and the evidences of the EDITORIAL COMMENT iniquity, the rapacity, the horrible uncleanness, the mercilessness,...

...prayers. PRELUDE TOJUDGMENT From this point of view, naively affirming the meaningfulness of reality, the history of the world is the judgment of the world and also its redemption, and such a conflict as the present one is—again as in communism—only the prelude...

...prayers. Prelude to Judgment From this point of view, naively affirming the meaningfulness of reality, the history of the world is the judgment of the world and also its redemption, and such a conflict as the present one is — again as in communism — only the...

...of their desires, or at least have had a greater measure of success in their defence. But true it is that ' the history of the world is the judgment of the world.' "About the same time that the Jewish war terminated, Rome attained the climax of her grandeur. Hostile...