Studies of Christianity

Studies of Christianity, or Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers, is a work by James Martineau. The title page calls the book a series of papers by James Martineau, edited by William R. Alger. The contents list names, among others, papers called Distinctive Types of Christianity, Mediatorial Religion and St. Paul and his Modern Students.

The text says the necessity under which Pantheism lies is of fetching all that is to be referred to God into the interior of his being. The text says that, intellect having no option, the God of this theory is without freedom, and is represented as the eternal necessity of reason. The text says that the monuments of Christian literature from the secondary period, though they leave many undetermined problems as to the successive steps by which the original Hebrew type of the Gospel in Jerusalem was metamorphosed into the Nicene and hierarchical Christianity, fix some intermediate points. The text asks whether it is said that, although men differ in moral effort and withstand temptation in various degrees, the entire scale of human character lies below the point of Divine acceptableness.