Christianity and Social Problems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23169711 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lyman Abbott (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Pages | 356-358 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Christianity and Modern Politics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9783110847710-037 |
| OpenAlex | W1598880785 |
| ISBN | 9783110847710 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
CHRISTTAXJTYAXD SOCIAL PROBLEMS.His people, and demanded nothing else ; that He was best pleased, not by costly adoration paid to Him, but by obedience to His laws -by doing justice, loving mercy, and walking in humility with Him.iIn this respect their religion differed radically from that of the pagan nations about them, the object of whose worship was either to placate the anger of a wrathful deity, or to win by bribes and flatteries the special favor of a corruptible one.Thus their religion had an ethical character, not found in the other world-religions of that age, and too little found in religion in its professional forms in any age.Their sacred books, which constituted their sole literature, required them to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present life, as a necessary means of realizing the hope of a life to come.Drunkenness and licentiousness, which were not uncommon in pagan services, would have been as incongruous in the worship of this peculiar people as irreverence and blasphemy.2Unchastity, greed, anger, and all the evils which spring from these and kindred sins, were prohibited by the laws which every week were read in the people's hearing; the evils which these vices inflict upon the community, and the benefits which flow from the contrasted virtues, were illustrated by sacred histories, written unmistakably for this very purpose.Of art for art's sake they knew nothing.The great epic of their literature was
Christianity · Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1918 - 2008 (91) |
| Highly cited | No |