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Excerpt from The Apostles' Creed: Its Origin, Its Purpose, and Its Historical Interpretation It will be seen that the notes deal largely with the Old Roman Symbol and not with the present text of the creed. This is due not only to the greater relative importance of the former, but also to the fact that my own inde pendent investigations have been confined to questions connected with the Older symbol, and I have not cared to burden the notes with second hand results. The conclusions touching the origin and history of the present text of the creed which are given in the latter part of the lecture are based wholly upon the investigations of others, especially Caspari and Kattenbusch. 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.
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Written by Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea, “The History of the Church” is the pioneering 4th century work which details the chronological history of early Christianity from the time of Christ to Constantine. This monumental work of Christian history stands apart from other contemporary histories as the first full-length record of early Christianity from a Christian point of view. A fierce advocate for the Christian religion, Eusebius lived in Caesarea Maritima, a coastal city in modern day Israel, prior to and during the rule of Constantine. At the time of Eusebius’ life his hometown had became a center of Christian learning, through the work of Christian theologian Origen, and his follower Pamphilus, Eusebius’ own teacher. This made Eusebius an ideal candidate to make a record of Christianity’s crucial first three hundred years. While sometimes criticized as biased and inaccurate “The History of the Church” nevertheless provides an indispensable perspective upon the foundations of the Christian church and religion. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and follows the translation of Arthur Cushman McGiffert.
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Arthur Cushman McGiffert was born on March 4, 1861 at Sauquoit, Oneida County, New York. The father was the Rev. Joseph Nelson McGiffert, son of James, of Scotch descent, who emigrated from the north of Ireland to New York in 1819. The mother was Harriet Whiting Cushman, a descendant of that Robert Cushman who wrote pamphlets for the Pilgrims.
Arthur McGiffert graduated from Western Reserve University with the degree of A. B. in 1882, and three years later from Union Theological Seminary, New York. He then went abroad and in 1888 received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Marburg, Germany. The year 1885-86 he spent in study at Berlin and the year 1887-88, in France and Italy. The most rewarding result of this period abroad was an intimacy of association, particularly at Marburg, seldom accorded a student by the most outstanding historian of Christianity in the Germany of his day, Adolf Harnack. From him the young American imbibed a modernist interpretation of Christianity, an enthusiasm for editing and translating ancient documents, and a zest for the comprehensive delineation of the entire course of Christian thought. The first fruit of this collaboration was McGiffert's doctoral dissertation, an edition of an eighth-century Greek text called a Dialogue between a Christian and a Jew (1889). The introduction gave an admirable analysis of the main types of early Christian apologetics.
Returning to the United States in 1888, McGiffert was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry by the Presbytery of Cleveland on September 10, 1888, and became a member of the faculty of Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he served as instructor in church history from 1888 to 1890 and as professor from 1890 to 1893. Here he produced his masterly translation, "The Church History of Eusebius", the footnotes to which constitute a veritable history of the early church. In 1893 he was called to the chair of church history in Union Theological Seminary, New York, where he remained in active service until his retirement in 1927.
He published in 1897 A History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age, a singularly lucid and moderate presentation of the New Testament period. To the Pittsburgh Presbytery, however, the whole book appeared as a "flagrant and ominous scandal, " largely because in a footnote a doubt was voiced with regard to the express institution of the Lord's Supper by Jesus in the sense of a perpetual rite. The matter was brought to the attention of the General Assembly of 1898, which stated its "emphatic disapproval" of the utterances cited by the Pittsburgh Presbytery, and in the interest of peace counseled McGiffert to reconsider or to withdraw. The Assembly of the following year reaffirmed this disapproval, though noting that McGiffert had declared himself to be "in accord with the Presbyterian Church in all vital and essential matters, " and referred the case to the New York Presbytery for action. This body, however, satisfied with McGiffert's statement, dropped proceedings; but when its decision was appealed to the General Assembly, McGiffert preferred to allay controversy by withdrawing from the Presbyterian and joining the Congregational Church. His literary output was prodigious, including ten books and more than forty articles.
In 1917 McGiffert was called to the presidency of Union Theological Seminary and continued in the post until 1926. To the administrative sphere was transferred his analytical skill. One of his most onerous tasks was financial. He discharged it by taking the lead in raising four million dollars, thereby wiping out the postwar deficit and providing in addition for new buildings and retirement allowances for the faculty. He died, after a cerebral hemorrhage, in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
A number of educational innovations were introduced by him, many of which have commended themselves to his own and other institutions. Tuition fees were charged, the course was lengthened to four years, and student self-support was converted into "a supervised laboratory experience. " The physical proximity of the seminary to Columbia University, made possible by the transfer of the seminary to Morningside Heights in 1910, was utilized by McGiffert for an educational collaboration, the more intimate and cordial because of his unimpeachable scholarship.
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Arthur was committed to objectivity, the more so because he believed that religious assurance is independent of particular historical events. To objectivity was added sympathy. Even the champions of those forms of Christianity most remote from his own were expounded with all the understanding he could summon. His own views were excluded from the lecture-room and the warmth and depth of his religious life were disclosed only in chapel talks, sermons, and intimate gatherings. A volume of such utterances has been published from his manuscripts by his son, Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Jr. , under the title Christianity as History and Faith (1934).
As a writer and lecturer McGiffert, though dealing with profound ideas, was simple in his language and lucid in his presentation, amazingly skillful in charting a course through a maze of intricate details.
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"No lecturer ever had a more limpid style. Like all vigorous minds, he loved sensation; like all men of breeding, he held convention dear. For him, therefore, only Truth could be allowed to make sensations. He never had axes to grind, always rather noble pictures to frame. He always dug for the root of a personality. Yet, after all, perhaps it was the sap he was after. Twigs never became trunks with him. His sense of proportion was almost infallible".
McGiffert was twice married: first, June 9, 1885, to Eliza Isabelle, daughter of Leicester King, of Washington, D. C. ; she died in 1887, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth; second, November 12, 1891, to a gifted writer of verse, Gertrude Huntington, daughter of George Adams Boyce, of East Orange, N. J. , by whom he had two children, Arthur Cushman, and Katharine Wolcott.
