[Ten Great Religions by James Freeman Clarke]@TWC D-Link book
Ten Great Religions

CHAPTER III
131/132

Things then become "separate and divisible" which before were "huddled and lumped." Christianity, therefore, fulfils Brahmanism by adding to eternity time, to the infinite the finite, to God as spirit God as nature and providence.
God in himself is the unlimited, unknown, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; hidden, not by darkness, but by light.

But God, as turned toward us in nature and providence, is the infinite definite substance, that is, having certain defined characters, though these have no bounds as regards extent.

This last view of God Christianity shares with other religions, which differ from Brahmanism in the opposite direction.

For example, the religion of Greece and of the Greek philosophers never loses the definite God, however high it may soar.

While Brahmanism, seeing eternity and infinity, loses time and the finite, the Greek religion, dwelling in time, often loses the eternal and the spiritual.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books