Essays, Reviews, And Addresses: Ecclesiastical, Historical
Essays, Reviews, And Addresses: Ecclesiastical, Historical
James Martineau
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They have dis- cussed it according to their nature. They are the modem receptacles of such debates as in other times found their centre in ecclesiastical assemblies. In their columns it is, that, in our days, a Nicolas of Myra must plant his fist in Anus's jaw : there, that an Athanasius must rage, and a Eusebius truckle : there, that the orthodox shout is raised to expel some obnoxious Theodoret : thence, that peaceable folks keep aloof, like Gregory Nazianzen, from " the con- course of geese ...and cranes." They necessarily take the measure of every theological phenomenon from their own Digitized by Google TRACTS FOR PRIESTS AND PEOPLE. 423 special and exclusive point of view ; and, unless from the conflict or balance of opposite exaggerations, leave its true proportions no chance of coming out. The "Tracts for Priests and People" form, in their whole tone and spirit, a marked exception to this disputatious partizanship. Proceeding from a well-known band of asso- ciates, — the o\ ntpl Maurice, — they are not a manifesto in the interests of a school ; — not a pious parody and coarse caricature set up as an altar-piece ; — but a serious, manly, and large-hearted exposition of Christian faith, in its direct relations to human life.
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