St. Paul And the Roman Law And Other Studies On the Origin of the Form of Doctrine
St. Paul And the Roman Law And Other Studies On the Origin of the Form of Doctrine
Ball, W. Edmund (William Edmund)
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His energetic mind laid hold of the principles of received truth con- .cerning the dual nature of our Lord and the mystery of the Trinity, and laboured to express them with lucidity, and yet with caution, with Digitized by Google ROMAN LAW IN ANTE-NICENE THEOLOGY 77 wealth of inference and deduction, and yet with compactness. He abounds in subtle definition, so guarded by reservations and refinements that the faith seems to be fenced in by barriers built up of ingeniously constructed phrases. I...t is a convention of theologians to ignore the fact that there ever was a time when even the most abstruse of Christian doctrines was in process of manufacture. And, accordingly, it is custom- ary to apply to the opinions of the ante-Nicene Fathers a test of orthodoxy which did not exist in their day. They are judged by the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds, which they insensibly helped to frame, but which were promulgated in a later generation. Even Origen, in some respects the greatest of theologians, has been censured with asperity by later writers on divinity for having fallen short of these standards.
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