The Witness of Religious Experience the Donnellan Lectures
The Witness of Religious Experience the Donnellan Lectures
William Boyd Carpenter
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" And, lastly, he tells us of the deep joy which is his as he fixes his faith upon Another : " I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. " "There is no con- demnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. " Further, he has given us in a succinct and epigrammatic form his own rationale of this change : "I through the law died unto the law that I might live unto God. I have been crucified with Christ yet I live, and yet no longer I but Christ liveth in me, and that life which I now live in the flesh... I live in the faith, the faith which is in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up for me. " The case of St. Paul is the specimen case of that class of experience which I have called by his name, but the features of this experi- ence have been repeated times without number. The features are the sense of satis- faction exchanged for one of dissatisfaction, and this dissatisfaction exchanged for one of the highest satisfaction of a changed soul. These three stages turn upon a central ex- WITNESS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 49 perience ; the satisfaction of the early stage is exchanged for the higher satisfaction of the later stage, but is only reached through an experience of deep and bitter self-dissatisfac- tion.
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