The Divine Aspect of History, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John Rickards Mozley

9780483392656: The Divine Aspect of History, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0483392650 ISBN 13: 9780483392656

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from The Divine Aspect of History, Vol. 2 of 2

It is now proper to remark that the scheme of belief presented to us in the Nicene creed has been received with real enthusiasm not only by Christian theologians, but by persons of singular ability and great freedom of thought, lay and not clerical, living in times which must be called modern, though of course not beyond the reach of ancient influences (as who would wish them to be?) The poet Milton in his later years did partly (by no means entirely) dissent from the Nicene creed; but his early poem On the. Morning of Christ's Nativity does so precisely express the doctrine of that creed, and in so lofty a style, that it will be well to quote its two opening stanzas (they are from the Introduction, not from the Ode): This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King, Of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing.

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