The Character of Jesus : Forbidding His Possible Classification With Men
The Character of Jesus : Forbidding His Possible Classification With Men
Bushnell, Horace, 1802-1876
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and hang a system upon his answer. Nothing falls into an artistic shape, as when Plato or Socrates asked what kind of action is beautiful in action ? reduc- ing the principles of morality to a form as difficult for the uncultivated, as the art of sculpture itself. Yet Christ excels them all in the beauty of his pre- cepts, without once appearing to consider their beauty. He simply comes forth telling us, from God, what to do, without deducing any thing in a critical way ; and yet, while nothing... has ever yet been settled by the critics and theorizing philoso- phers, that could stand fast and compel the assent of the race, even for a year, the morality of Christ is about as firmly seated in the convictions of men, as the law of gravity in their bodies. He comes into the world full of all moral beauty, as God of physical ; and as God was not obliged to set himself to a course of aesthetic study, when he created the forms and landscapes of the world, so Christ comes to his rules, by no critical practice 58 CHABACTEB OF JESUS.
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