Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
But what of Schleiermacher, that man of colossal intellect, equally distinguished as a metaphysician and a critic? ...
Spending his great critical strength in anatomising the several narratives, making chemical compounds of their detached sections, the result was that, in respect of substance and phraseology, that glorious Personality which stands out so brightly to the view of others was obscured to him. Burrowing among his critical materials, the great Object of whom they treat presented itself to him in broken lights, and aspects in a great measure distorted. No better illustration of this will be found than in his view of the Miraculous Conception. This he could not take in. He regarded our Lord as having come into the world like all other descendants of the first pair: that was the result of his criticism, if not of a foregone conclusion. But unable to see how so spotless a life could spring from a birth tainted with the hereditary stain, he held that by some mysterious operation upon the parents this offspring of theirs was preserved from the hereditary taint. ...
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Spending his great critical strength in anatomising the several narratives, making chemical compounds of their detached sections, the result was that, in respect of substance and phraseology, that glorious Personality which stands out so brightly to the view of others was obscured to him. Burrowing among his critical materials, the great Object of whom they treat presented itself to him in broken lights, and aspects in a great measure distorted. No better illustration of this will be found than in his view of the Miraculous Conception. This he could not take in. He regarded our Lord as having come into the world like all other descendants of the first pair: that was the result of his criticism, if not of a foregone conclusion. But unable to see how so spotless a life could spring from a birth tainted with the hereditary stain, he held that by some mysterious operation upon the parents this offspring of theirs was preserved from the hereditary taint. ...
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David Brown on Friedrich Schleiermacher, Christology, and the virgin birth
But what of Schleiermacher, that man of colossal intellect, equally distinguished as a metaphysician and a critic? Well, that great man was the subject of a life-struggle between admiration, almost…
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