What is Christianity?
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Overview
What Is Christianity? And, more importantly, Who is Jesus Christ? Neither of those questions are easily answered, as conflicting information swirls around us. Comprised of over a dozen lectures, What is Christianity? was delivered originally by Adolph Harnack to an audience of more than 600 students at the University of Berlin with the purpose of clarifying those two questions in the context of history and the Bible.
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Key Features
- Contains over a dozen lectures
- Provides material well suited for students, pastors, and laity alike
- Discusses the Gospel and Christianity as a whole
Lectures Contained
- The Gospel: Preliminary
- The Leading Features of Jesus’ Message
- The Kingdom of God and Its Coming
- God the Father and the Infinite Value of the Human Soul
- The Higher Righteousness and the Commandment of Love
- The Gospel and the World, or the Question of Asceticism
- The Gospel and the Poor, or the Social Question
- The Gospel and Law, or the Question of Public Order
- The Gospel and Work, or the Question of Civilisation
- The Gospel and the Son of God, or the Christological Question
- The Gospel and Doctrine, or the Question of Creed
- The Christian Religion in the Apostolic Age
- The Christian Religion in Its Development into Catholicism
- The Christian Religion in Greek Catholicism
- The Christian Religion in Roman Catholicism
- The Christian Religion in Protestantism
Top Highlights
“At the one pole the coming of the kingdom seems to be a purely future event, and the kingdom itself to be the external rule of God; at the other, it appears as something inward, something which is already present and making its entrance at the moment.” (Page 52)
“Miracles, it is true, do not happen; but of the marvellous and the inexplicable there is plenty. In our present state of knowledge we have become more careful, more hesitating in our judgment, in regard to the stories of the miraculous which, we have received from antiquity. That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do not believe, and we shall never again believe; but that the lame walked, the blind saw, and the deaf heard, will not be so summarily dismissed as an illusion.” (Page 28)
“The essential elements in the message of the kingdom were preserved. The kingdom has a triple meaning. Firstly, it is something supernatural, a gift from above, not a product of ordinary life. Secondly, it is a purely religious blessing, the inner link with the living God; thirdly, it is the most important experience that a man can have, that on which everything else depends; it permeates and dominates his whole existence, because sin is forgiven and misery banished.” (Pages 61–62)
“Now, however certain it may be that our materials are insufficient for a ‘biography,’ they are very weighty in other respects, and even their silence on the first thirty years is instructive. They are weighty because they give us information upon three important points: In the first place, they offer us a plain picture of Jesus’ teaching, in regard both to its main features and to its individual application; in the second place, they tell us how his life issued in the service of his vocation; and in the third place, they describe to us the impression which he made upon his disciples, and which they transmitted.” (Page 31)
Product Details
- Title: What Is Christianity?
- Author: Adolph von Harnack
- Translator: Thomas Bailey Saunders
- Publisher: Williams and Norgate
- Publication Date: 1901
- Pages: 326
About Adolph von Harnack
Adolph von Harnack born in 1851 in Estonia, lived a life devoted to the study of church history and theology. He became a professor at age 24, and taught at the Universities of Leipzig, Giussen, Marbarg, and Berlin until his retirement at age 70. Although he was widely considered to be one of the most influential members of the Protestant church at the turn of the twentieth century, the Church of Germany believed his theology to be off-base and did not allow him to become an accredited clergyman. Harnack’s passion for the history of the Church led him to pen numerous resources on the matter, his most famous work perhaps being What Is Christianity? He continued his studies and writing until his death in 1930.