The Religion of the New Testament [antikvár]

PREFACE This volume is intended primarily for Christian ministers and laymen whose interest in the New Testament is sufficiently real and vital to make them desire to know what the various writings composing that part of the Bible actually say. In the nature of the case the study has been based directly upon the material of the New Testament. But in a long generation of study and teaching of these documents it is inevitable that many streams of thought from other minds should have made rich and important contributions to the ideas of the writer. These obligations are so many that it would be extremely difficult to make specific reference to them. Grateful acknowledgment is made to those whose patient study and incisive thought have made lasting impress upon the author. Nevertheless there has been an endeavor, so far as may be, to maintain an independent historical attitude toward the entire task. The book now goes forth to whatever service toward a better understanding of the New Testament and of the Christian movement in its early plastic and enthusiastic days it may find itself able to render. Perhaps mention should be made that the scriptural passages quoted are the author's own translation. E. W. P. October, 1938.