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The writing and correspondence of Hastings Rashdall:

Sermons

1905 to 1915 and the Bampton Lectures

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The Suffering Servant - preached at Hereford Cathedral, March 16, 1913
“This 53rd chapter of Isaiah does so exactly express what Christians feel that in a spiritual sense Christ has done for them that it was, we may say, inevitable that the early Christians should attribute this meaning to the prophet who uttered them. . ”

The Atonement in Prophecy and Experience - preached at Hereford Cathedral, Good Friday 1914

". . . if we keep in mind this distinction between the fact of the Atonement and theories about the Atonement, we shall see that it is possible to find a real meaning in the doctrine without contradicting the teaching of the Master Himself. Our Lord Himself taught that God is and always had been willing to forgive sins – on one condition only, sincere repentance. We must not therefore say (as many have done) that God could not forgive sins apart from the death of Christ, . . ."

Letters

Article
The Doctrine of the Cross for The New Age - extracts from an undated manuscript.

"There is one doctrine of the Atonement which can be found in practically all Theologians from the time of St Paul to the present amid however many inconsistent additions, reservations, and even point-blank contradictions of it. This doctrine from the emphasis which he laid upon it may conveniently be called the Abelardian doctrine. It is the simple doctrine that the death of Christ reveals to us the love of God. It is to this view of Christ’s death, I believe, that the preaching of the Atonement owes all the moral force, all the converting and regenerating power which it has ever exercised."

to Rashdall's mother relating his work on the Bampton Lectures (extracts)

from W E Spooner and A H Cruickshank on Rashdall's appointment as Bampton Lecturer for 1915

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The writing and correspondence of Hastings Rashdall: Sermons	1905 to 1915 and the Bampton Lectures	HastingsRashdall.org.uk
The Suffering Servant - preached at Hereford Cathedral, March 16, 1913	“This 53rd chapter of Isaiah does so exactly express what Christians feel that in a spiritual sense Christ has done for them that it was, we may say, inevitable that the early Christians should attribute this meaning to the prophet who uttered them. . ”
The Atonement in Prophecy and Experience - preached at Hereford Cathedral, Good Friday 1914	". . . if we keep in mind this distinction between the fact of the Atonement and theories about the Atonement, we shall see that it is possible to find a real meaning in the doctrine without contradicting the teaching of the Master Himself. Our Lord Himself taught that God is and always had been willing to forgive sins – on one condition only, sincere repentance. We must not therefore say (as many have done) that God could not forgive sins apart from the death of Christ, . . ."	Letters
Article The Doctrine of the Cross for The New Age - extracts from an undated manuscript.	"There is one doctrine of the Atonement which can be found in practically all Theologians from the time of St Paul to the present amid however many inconsistent additions, reservations, and even point-blank contradictions of it. This doctrine from the emphasis which he laid upon it may conveniently be called the Abelardian doctrine. It is the simple doctrine that the death of Christ reveals to us the love of God. It is to this view of Christ’s death, I believe, that the preaching of the Atonement owes all the moral force, all the converting and regenerating power which it has ever exercised."	to Rashdall's mother relating his work on the Bampton Lectures (extracts) from W E Spooner and A H Cruickshank on Rashdall's appointment as Bampton Lecturer for 1915
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