The Emperor Julian and His Generation; An Historical Picture Paperback -
by August Neander
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECTION III. Julian's View Of Religion And Philosophy In General; His View Of Christianity Resulting Therefrom J And The Means By Which He Endeavored, As Emperor, To Realize His Religious Ideas. The different and contradictory views and representations of Julian's behavior towards the Christians have arisen in part from the fact, that his actions have been considered nakedly by themselves, and not as they proceeded from his religious mode of thinking. In attempting to exhibit them fairly, we must turn back our attention to the preceding introductory Section; since the religious view of Julian's character can only be understood by studying the spirit in which the later heathenism opposed itself to Christianity. His theology indeed was formed by the efforts then made to connect the revelation of God in the soul of man with the old traditions and myths as well as the ancient worship of their fathers; to give the latter a living spirit by means of the former; to unite the former, by means of the latter, to something firm and independent of human authority, as being hallowed by its remote antiquity; and, with the view of giving the system an objective, universal adaptation for the nations, to attach it to a form that would operate upon all by exciting and elevating their religious impressions. He had a lively consciousness of the laws that are written by the gods upon the souls of men, and through which, without any further instruction, we are convinced of the existence of the Deity. From this Deity originated all those. systems of philosophy that proceeded on correct notions, and they all therefore agreed with one another, because they represented precisely the same thing, though under different and, apparently, contradictory forms. Let no one (said he) cut up philosoph...
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- Title The Emperor Julian and His Generation; An Historical Picture
- Author August Neander
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 48
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher General Books
- Date 12-Aug-2
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780217347655 / 0217347657
- Weight 0.23 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.1 in (24.61 x 18.90 x 0.25 cm)
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