The End of the Law the Warburton Lectures

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Excerpt from The End of the Law the Warburton Lectures: Given in Lincoln's Inn Chapel During the Years 1907-1911 From the days of Justin Martyr until now the twofold aim of the Christian apologist has exposed him to a twofold suspicion. He desires at once to commend the faith to unbelievers, and to confirm believers in their faith. In strict logic, therefore, he ought to appeal only to such principles as are common to all men of learning and virtue: but an unconscious bias leads him now and again to make assumptions which are not generally admitted. In so far as he does this, he seems to his opponents to be lacking in candour, in so far as he fails to do so, he seems to the less thoughtful on his own side to be but a lukewarm advocate. While correcting these lectures for the press, I have perceived more clearly than before how liable they are to this double criticism. The difficulties inherent in the task, which is imposed by Bishop Warburton's trust, have sometimes proved too great for my strength. Yet I venture to hope that the candid reader, who will make allowance for errors in detail, will find the main argument satisfactory. It presents the course of revelation to the Hebrews as a dialectical process, in which the questions are formulated by the experience of successive generations, and the answers are given by the prophets. A series of such age-long dialogues, carried on side by side, deals with various cardinal needs and aspirations of humanity, and each of them ends with a final question, asked by the last generation of ancient Judaism, and answered, directly or indirectly, by Jesus Christ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.