Excerpt from Christian History in Its Three Great Periods: Third Period Modern Phases I am not aware that any attempt has yet been made, for the religious student, to reconcile these opposing aspects in a single View. At all events, this Which might well appear the most important field in Christian history has not ordinarily been even surveyed in our courses of theological instruo tion. It would be too much to claim for the follow ing chapters that they aim to supply the want thus indicated. They are, however, an essay designed to show, in some detail, how that want should be met. Of the topics presented, five include the purely ecclesiastical or dogmatic phases of the Reformation Period, - that is, from 1500 to 1650; five trace the several lines followed since, in the direction of free thought and modern scholarship; While an in termediate chapter describes the bridge connecting the earlier and later, across a gulf that might seem impassable, - the passage from dogma to pure rea son. This mode of treatment may serve at least to hint what should (in my View) be the method pursued, to bring the more valuable lessons of our history Within hail of contemporary'thought. 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.