Religio Laici

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Excerpt from Religio Laici: A Series of Studies Addressed to LaymenIn writing these papers at various times during the past five years, I have had in view not the trained thinker and theologian, but such persons of general intelligence and education as tend to create the main body of opinion about religious matters, in a word, the readers of the weekly and monthly reviews. The arguments they contain are aimed at certain prejudices that I have heard expressed in conversation, or that seem to be implied in the attitude of such persons to current views and controversies. Thus the first essay endeavours to meet the too prevalent idea that Christianity is nothing but a refined system of morals, a new Stoicism "touched with emotion, " upon which the clergy have grafted an alien and unnecessary system of dogmas. The second attempts to define and defend the special characteristics of the Church of England among other religious bodies. As an appendix to that, I have added a paper written as a protest against an attack made - of course, in good faith - by two well-known men of letters upon the reputation of one of our most famous Jacobean divines and one of our best-loved and most typical seventeenth-century laymen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.