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Author: John Sutherland Black Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267559183 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 698
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Excerpt from The Life of William Robertson Smith In addition to the papers kindly placed at their dis posal by Professor Smith's family and by his friends the authors have had before them the voluminous litera ture of newspaper articles, official reports, controversial pamphlets, and other fugitive pieces to which Smith's somewhat stormy career gave rise. They have spared neither time nor pains in the study of these documents, and they hope that they have neglected nothing of any interest or importance. 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.
Author: John Sutherland Black Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267559183 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 698
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Excerpt from The Life of William Robertson Smith In addition to the papers kindly placed at their dis posal by Professor Smith's family and by his friends the authors have had before them the voluminous litera ture of newspaper articles, official reports, controversial pamphlets, and other fugitive pieces to which Smith's somewhat stormy career gave rise. They have spared neither time nor pains in the study of these documents, and they hope that they have neglected nothing of any interest or importance. 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.
Author: William Robertson Smith Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9780530230016 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 634
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: W. Robertson Smith Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483160446 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 642
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Excerpt from Lectures Essays of William Robertson Smith The present volume contains a selection from the writings of Professor Robertson Smith which are either wholly unpublished or have not yet been collected in book-form. It has not been found possible within the compass even of a large volume to give more than a strictly limited selection from the manuscript material in the hands of the editors, and much that in their Opinion is of considerable interest and value must be withheld, at any rate for the present. Their main purpose in compiling this volume has been to provide a supplement to Professor Smith's Life and to furnish a series of illustrative documents possessing an intrinsic interest of their own, but also valuable as throw ing light on the development of his mind and of his attitude towards the theological controversies and the scientific inquiries which were the chief concern of his life. 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.
Author: J. Sutherland (John Sutherland) Black Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781373514059 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 702
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: John Watson Publisher: ISBN: 9781332191390 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 24
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Excerpt from The Robertson Smith Case: Recorded Reasons and Imputed Motives of the Free Church Leaders The Free Church has many trials to the fidelity of her people. Her principles - now that the generation which saw them fought out in the conflict which preceded the Disruption is passing away - require some application of the intellect to grasp, and much is being said and done to make them appear infinitesimal, and those who steadily maintain them unreasonable. It is a thing quite to be expected that when such a question as that of Mr. Robertson Smith comes up it should be an element to loosen the attachment to the Church of many of those who are dissatisfied with the course she has seen fit to take. And it was inevitable that such a question should arise. But, while we cannot be surprised that it should operate to the estrangement of some who are a little extreme on the one side or the other, we are entitled to expect that the ground on which the dissentients justify the attitude they take should be only the legitimate ground that the action of the Church is, in their opinion, unwise, and constitutionally incompetent, and - if they will - unjust. If they add to this that it was taken by the leaders of the Church from motives other than those avowed, they are bound to accompany the charge with the proof. They are not entitled, from any feelings of disappointment, to carry invectives beyond the subject-matter on which they are dissenting, except on proof. 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.
Author: James Sime Publisher: ISBN: 9781330850343 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 60
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Excerpt from Uncritical Criticism: A Review of Professor W. Robertson Smith's Commission Speech My reason for venturing on the following criticism is, that any member of the Committee who feels himself aggrieved by the charges of 'ignorance, ' 'gross unfairness, ' and 'captiousness' freely flung out against the whole body of them, is entitled to repel these charges by all fair and honourable means. If they are true, so much the worse for the Committee. Of the three versions of the Speech, - the spoken, the reported, and the revised, - I have used the last, as being the most favourable for the speaker, though not the fairest for the Committee. I propose to discuss the points in dispute solely on their literary and historical merits. My hope also is, that I shall discuss them as a scholar should. And therefore I appeal for a fair hearing to sensible men on both sides, whose only object is the maintenance of truth and not the triumph of party. The merits of the points in dispute seem to me of far more consequence than questions of procedure. I have therefore limited my criticism to about sixteen pages of the Speech (pp. 9-24). Every one is aware that the correction of an erroneous statement usually requires more space than is taken up in originally setting forth the error. 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.
Author: Bernhard Maier Publisher: Mohr Siebeck ISBN: 9783161499951 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 364
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William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) was successively the embattled champion of the emergent higher criticism as applied to the Old Testament, chief editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. Today he is acknowledged to have been a pioneering figure in both social anthropology and the study of comparative religion, deeply influencing the thinking of J. G. Frazer, Emile Durkheim and Sigmund Freud. The first full-length biography of Robertson Smith to be published for almost a hundred years, this text makes use of hitherto unknown material preserved by the Smith family and draws upon the extensive range of correspondence between Smith and such scholars as Albrecht Ritschl, Paul de Lagarde, Julius Wellhausen, Abraham Kuenen and Theodor Noldeke. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the biography locates and defines the place of this remarkable polymath within the context of Free Church Calvinism, the Scottish Enlightenment and 19th century German Protestant theology. It highlights Smith's interest in physics and philosophy, his friendship with contemporary artists, his Oriental travels, and his involvement in the social life of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. In recent years, the image of Smith as a comparative religionist has come to dominate all other perspectives and indeed tends now to overshadow his fame as an Old Testament scholar. This book seeks to redress the balance, aiming to discover the theological drive behind Smith's manifold activities.
Author: William Robertson Smith Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780765809360 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 507
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Scottish Semiticist and Arabist William Robertson Smith was a celebrated biblical critic, theorist of religion, and theorist of myth. His accomplishments were multiple. Smith's German mentors reconstructed the history of Israelite religion from the Bible itself; Smith ventured outside the Bible to Semitic religion and thereby pioneered the comparative study of religion. Where others viewed religion from the standpoint of the individual, Smith approached religion-at least ancient religion-from the standpoint of the group. He asserted that ancient religion was centrally a matter of practice, not creed, and singlehandedly created the ritualist theory of myth. Since Smith's time, the ritualist theory of myth has found adherents not only in biblical studies but in classics, anthropology, and literature as well. Smith's accomplishments are seen most fully in Religion of the Semites, adapted from a number of public lectures he gave at Aberdeen, and first published in 1889. Smith delivered three courses of lectures over three years. It is this set that is reprinted here. Only recently were the notes for the second and third courses of lectures discovered and published. Religion of the Semites combines extraordinary philological erudition with brilliant theorizing. Among the fundamental emphases of the book are the foci on sacrifice as the key ritual and non-ancient sacrifice as communion with God rather than as penance for sin. Most important is Smith's use of the comparative method: he uses cross-cultural examples from other "primitive peoples" to confirm his reconstruction from Semitic sources. Smith combines pioneering sociology and anthropology with a staunchly Christian faith. For him, Christianity is an expression of divine revelation. For Smith, only continuing revelation can account for the leap from the collective, ritualistic, and materialistic nature of ancient Semitic religion to the individualistic, creedal, and spiritualized nature of Christianity. Lectures on the Religion of the Semites manages to meld social science with theology, and remains a classic work in the social scientific study of religion.
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