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The writing and correspondence of Hastings Rashdall:

1915 and the Bampton Lectures to 1924

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Lectures

The Bampton Lectures, 1915, "The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology", published 1919.
“It is only through love at its highest that we can understand divine love. Gratitude for ordinary human love – love pushed to the point of self-sacrifice – is the strongest power that exists in this world for attracting to that goodness of which love is the supreme element the soul that has it not, and for producing repentance for that lack of love in which sin essentially consists. ”

"The Atonement"
- a paper read to the Origen Society at Oxford, March 1917.

"The traditional language about the saving effects of Christ's death was based upon the authority of Old Testament prophecy, and cannot be considered eternally binding on Christians who do not accept the Jewish view as to the plenary inspiration of the Old Testament or the early Christian interpretation of it, except in so far as a rational and ethical meaning – a meaning consistent with our Lord's own teaching – can be found for it. "

Correspondence

Sermon
Fragment of sermon preached at Lancaster, Dec 1918.
. . . we should not suppose that the death of Christ will do anything for us unless it calls forth in us some measure of that same love which inspired Christ Himself with the desire to live and die for His fellows. The whole essence of the matter is expressed by those simple words of St John: “he laid down his life for us and (therefore it is implied) we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.”

with C L Feltoe
with A H Cruickshank
letters from Rashdall
letters to Rashdall

Reports
On the presentation of the Bampton Lectures - with a correction from Rashdall!
"Sir, A correspondent in your last number makes me
speak of "a certain random theory of Irenaeus"."

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Lectures
The Bampton Lectures, 1915, "The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology", published 1919.	“It is only through love at its highest that we can understand divine love. Gratitude for ordinary human love – love pushed to the point of self-sacrifice – is the strongest power that exists in this world for attracting to that goodness of which love is the supreme element the soul that has it not, and for producing repentance for that lack of love in which sin essentially consists. ”
"The Atonement" - a paper read to the Origen Society at Oxford, March 1917.	"The traditional language about the saving effects of Christ's death was based upon the authority of Old Testament prophecy, and cannot be considered eternally binding on Christians who do not accept the Jewish view as to the plenary inspiration of the Old Testament or the early Christian interpretation of it, except in so far as a rational and ethical meaning – a meaning consistent with our Lord's own teaching – can be found for it. "	Correspondence
Sermon Fragment of sermon preached at Lancaster, Dec 1918.	. . . we should not suppose that the death of Christ will do anything for us unless it calls forth in us some measure of that same love which inspired Christ Himself with the desire to live and die for His fellows. The whole essence of the matter is expressed by those simple words of St John: “he laid down his life for us and (therefore it is implied) we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.”	with C L Feltoe with A H Cruickshank letters from Rashdall letters to Rashdall
Reports On the presentation of the Bampton Lectures - with a correction from Rashdall!	"Sir, A correspondent in your last number makes me speak of "a certain random theory of Irenaeus"."	Back to "Explore the writings of Rashdall"