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SILANUS
THE CHRISTIAN
BY
EDWIN A. ABBOTT
AUTHOR OF “PHILOCHRISTUS” AND “ONESIMUS”
“The love of Christ constraineth us.”
2 Cor. v. 14.
LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1906
Cambridge:
PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
TO THE MEMORY
OF
EPICTETUS
NOT A CHRISTIAN
BUT AN AWAKENER OF ASPIRATIONS
THAT COULD NOT BE SATISFIED
EXCEPT IN CHRIST
Many years have elapsed since the author was constrained(not by a priori considerations but by historical and criticalevidence) to disbelieve in the miraculous element of the Bible.Yet he retained the belief of his childhood and youth—rootedmore firmly than before—in the eternal unity of the Father,the Son and the Holy Spirit, in the supernatural but non-miraculousincarnation of the Son as Jesus Christ, and inChrist’s supernatural but non-miraculous resurrection after Hehad offered Himself up as a sacrifice for the sins of the world.
The belief is commonly supposed to be rendered impossibleby the disbelief. This book is written to shew that there isno such impossibility.
The vast majority of the worshippers of Christ base theirworship to a very large extent—as the author did in his earlyyouth under the cloud of Paley’s Evidences—on their acceptanceof His miracles as historical facts. In the author’sopinion this basis is already demonstrably unsafe, and maybe at any mome