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Quintus Junius Silanus brought into the world 90 A.D., goes from Rome at the proposal of his old companion Marcus Aemilius Scaurus to go to the addresses of Epictetus in Nicopolis around 118 A.D. Scaurus {like Silanus a nonexistent character) brought into the world around 50 A.D., is a handicapped soldiery and has been for a long time an understudy of random Greek writing including Christian works. In answer to a letter from Scaurus lauding his new instructor, Scaurus communicates his conviction that Epictetus has gone through a phase of the disease with "the Christian superstition" from which he has obtained a few pieces of the superstructure while dismissing its establishment. Silanus to protect his instructor Epictetus from what he thinks about an unreasonable attribution secures the epistles of Paul, His enthusiasm for these leads him to the "sacred writings" from which Paul cites. Thereupon he is driven on to theorize about the idea of the "gospel" lectured by Paul, and about the character and expressions of the "Christ" from whom that "gospel" started. The epistles pass on to him a feeling of profound quality and "obliging affection," He decides to get the Christian accounts. During this time he is at times comparing with Scaurus and going to the addresses of Epictetus, which fulfills him less and less. Appeared differently about the profound quality in the epistles of Paul the addresses appear to contain just energetic fizz. Also, there is express nonattendance of "compelling adoration." At the point when the three Synoptic accounts reach Silanus from Rome, he gets in the meantime a dangerous analysis on them from Scaurus, Much of this analysis he is empowered to meet with the guide of the Pauline epistles. In any case, enough stays to shake his confidence in their authentic exactness. Nor does he find in them a similar nearness that he found in the epistles, of "compelling adoration," The outcome is, that he is tossed once again from Christ. At this emergency he meets Clemens, an Athenian, who loans him a gospel that has as of late showed up, the good news of John, Clemens honestly concedes his questions about its origin, and about its total exactness, yet compliments it as passing on the endless profound disclosure natural in Christless deficiently than it is passed on by the Synoptists. A to some degree comparative view is communicated by Scaurus however with an enormous admixture of threatening analysis. He has as of late gotten the fourth gospel, and it shapes the subject of his last letter. While dismissing a lot of it as unhistorical, he communicates extraordinary deference for it, and for what he regards its basic rule, in particular, that Jesus would he be able to comprehend spare through a "supporter whom Jesus cherished." While conjecturing on what may have occurred on the off chance that he had gone under the impact of a "supporter whom Jesus cherished" Scaurus is struck somewhere around the loss of motion. Silanus sets sail for Italy in the expectation of discovering his companion as yet living. Exactly when he is dismissing the slopes above Nicopolis where Clemens is petitioning God for him, Silanus gets anxiety of Christ's "compelling adoration" and turns into a Christian. No endeavor has been established to give the connection of an obsolete or Latin style. Henceforth "Christus" and "Paulus" are for the most part maintained a strategic distance from except in a couple of examples where they are referenced out of the blue by people talking from a non-Christian perspective. Comparable obvious irregularities will be found in the utilization of "He" and "he," signifying Christ. The utilization shifts, halfway as per the speaker, incompletely as indicated by the speaker's state of mind. It differs additionally in citations from the sacred text as indicated by the degree to which the Revised Version is pursued. The expressions relegated to Epictetus are take
"A book of absorbing interest and deep religious significance....A study in spiritual conversion which recalls 'Philochristus' both in the chaste beauty of its language and a restrained dramatic power....The expression of genuine difficulties - difficulties both critical and religious, which are presenting themselves again in a very similar form to the modern mind. It is one of the chief merits of Dr. Abbott's able and stimulating book that, while it does not ignore these difficulties or treat them as foolish or unreal, it exhibits them in their true religious perspective, as belonging to the fringe rather than the essential revelation of the Gospels." -Manchester Guardian "Interesting on account of the literary skill with which he presents innumerable points of exposition and criticism, and on account, too, of the beauty and strength of many of its passages." -Athenaeum "Many nowadays are seeking a way to discard what is called the miraculous element in Christianity and yet to retain its essential doctrines of God's fatherhood, the divinity of Christ and his spiritual presence with his Church. Such an attempt is made by Edwin A. Abbott in 'Silanus the Christian,' which is at once an historical romance of the second century and an exposition of the author's own opinions in regard to the essence of the Christian faith....Little or nothing is attempted in the way of local color, and the interest of the story is almost exclusively philosophical. By securing this detachment from modern conditions the author is able to make his points effective and in a true historical connection....The book may be commended for its clarity and grasp of the relations of thought." -The Congregationalist and Christian World "A deeply interesting theological book in the form of a story....Dr. Abbott contrives, with real dramatic ability, to make it appear natural that all his characters should be for the time being completely obsessed by their subject....The gist of its teaching...is summed up in the words of Clemens, 'It has been said that the religion of the Christians is a person - and nothing more. I should prefer to say the same thing differently. Our religion is a person - and nothing less.'" -The Spectator "The book is an able and delightful one. We know nothing so vivid and so good on Epictetus....The strength and the weakness of the character and system of that wonderful teacher are set forth with unrivaled power and with graphic simplicity. So also is the teaching of the New Testament in some of its aspects....We appreciate the scholarship, the literary art, the high character, and the reverence of the book." -Aberdeen Free Press "The form of fiction which Dr. Abbott employs undoubtedly adds a lively force of persuasion and reality to the highly critical and even technical arguments with which his study abounds....Valuable...as a contribution to the criticism of the doctrines and ethics of Stoic and Christian." -Outlook "No one with any sympathy for the subject will read this book without feeling its charm and appreciating its strong and fresh presentation not only for the spiritual teaching of Jesus, but of the doctrine of Epictetus." -Glasgow Herald "The impress of genius is everywhere manifest....A noble book, and one which we venture to think will afford relief to those who are staggered with the idea of the supernatural." -Baptist Times "An exceedingly interesting study of psychology illustrating the history of thought in the time of Jesus." -Birmingham Daily Post
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Edwin Abbott Abbott FBA (20 December 1838 - 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (1884). BiographyEdwin Abbott Abbott was the eldest son of Edwin Abbott (1808-1882), headmaster of the Philological School, Marylebone, and his wife, Jane Abbott (1806-1882). His parents were first cousins.He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honours of his class in classics, mathematics and theology, and became a fellow of his college. In particular, he was 1st Smith's prizeman in 1861.In 1862 he took orders. After holding masterships at King Edward's School, Birmingham, he succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865, at the early age of 26. There, he oversaw the education of future Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Abbott was Hulsean lecturer in 1876.He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Abbott's liberal inclinations in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology. In 1885, he published a life of Francis Bacon. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus (1878), where he tried to raise interest in Gospels reading, Onesimus (1882), and Silanus the Christian (1908).More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk (1886), Philomythus (1891), his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman (1892), and his article "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world. He also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles (1898), Johannine Vocabulary (1905), Johannine Grammar (1906).Abbott also wrote educational text books, one being "Via Latina: First Latin Book" which was published in 1898 and distributed around the world within the education system.
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This eBook edition of "Flatland" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novel. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square named A Square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. Flatland has often been categorized as science fiction although it could more precisely be called "mathematical fiction". With the advent of modern science fiction from the 1950s to the present day, Flatland has seen a revival in popularity, especially among science fiction and cyberpunk fans. Many works have been inspired by the novella, including novel sequels and short films.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated Edition) by Edwin A. Abbott Pdf
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novel. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square named A Square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. Flatland has often been categorized as science fiction although it could more precisely be called "mathematical fiction". With the advent of modern science fiction from the 1950s to the present day, Flatland has seen a revival in popularity, especially among science fiction and cyberpunk fans. Many works have been inspired by the novella, including novel sequels and short films.
CHRISTIAN APOLOGISTS OF THE SECOND CENTURY by Philip Carrington Pdf
Near the middle of the second century [150-200 A.D.], there arose churchmen who are today called Apologists. They wrote to defend Christianity against hostile philosophies prevalent in the Roman world. Get to know the lives and thoughts of the earliest Christian apologists. This brief overview of second-century apologetics gives the reader the significant ideas of early Christian apologists. Among the Apologists who wrote in Greek were Justin Martyr, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria. Tertullian was an Apologist who wrote in Latin. In the final chapter, Carrington relates second-century apologetics to modern thought, which will help you understand the importance of classic apologetics.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novel. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square named A Square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. Flatland has often been categorized as science fiction although it could more precisely be called "mathematical fiction". With the advent of modern science fiction from the 1950s to the present day, Flatland has seen a revival in popularity, especially among science fiction and cyberpunk fans. Many works have been inspired by the novella, including novel sequels and short films.
Onesimus - Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul by Edwin A. Abbott Pdf
Onesimus is a mesmerizing and lovely tribute and memoir of one of the disciples of Christian saint Paul. Paul, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. Generally regarded as one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age, he founded several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe from the mid-40s to the mid-50s AD.
