The Prophets of IsraelW. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1936 - 178 pagina's The splendors of worship grew more splendid, writes Miss Hamilton, the multitudes of priests and devotees perpetually greater; ceremony followed upon ceremony yet the temples and the shrines were empty....And then something happened, one of the most important events that ever happened, which was to result in nothing less than a completely new idea of religion, an altogether different relation of man to God. In a little country of no consequence to the ruling powers...Egypt, Nineveh, Babylon...a man arose, one man, all alone, to set himself against the force of the whole world's conviction; and after him another, and then another, each always by himself against the nations, in all a mere handful of men, who had a vision of a new heaven and a new earth, a new motive power for mankind and a new road to God, and who proclaimed this strange conception with a passion and a power never surpassed in the 3000 years that stretch out between their day and ours. The Prophets were men of extraordinary minds, able to reflect greatly upon human life and to see deep into human nature. They were men of passion and fire. In the present volume Miss Hamilton brings these ancient Hebrews to life for us as she brought those other ancient peoples to life in The Greek Way and The Roman Way, at the same time interpreting their significance for us today. |
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... less pressing . Bloodthirstiness diminished in the gods as well as in their worshippers . Indeed , the gods often ended by being tolerably amiable be- ings whose favor , once purchasable only at the cost of pain and death , could be ...
... less elaborate movements or the repetition of a more or less complicated form of words . The care- ful carrying out of this rite or that had then a clear meaning for life . It was the indispensable defense to thrust between the god of ...
... less and less . But that is a left - over from which they could not completely free themselves . It has no mean- ing now except to the antiquarian and the histo- rian 190 XI THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL 190.
Inhoudsopgave
FOREWORD | 13 |
FEAR AND FORM IN RELIGION 25 | 25 |
II | 40 |
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