STUDIES OF CHRISTIANITY: OR, TIMELY THOUGHTS FOR RELIGIOUS THINKERS. A SERIES OF PAPERS, BY JAMES MARTINEAU. EDITED BY WILLIAM R. ALGER. * * * * * BOSTON: AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION, 21 BROMFIELD STREET. 1858. CAMBRIDGE: ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED BY METCALF AND COMPANY. CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTORY THOUGHTS, FROM MR. MARTINEAU'S WRITINGS v DISTINCTIVE TYPES OF CHRISTIANITY 1 CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT PRIEST AND WITHOUT RITUAL 35 INCONSISTENCY OF THE SCHEME OF VICARIOUS REDEMPTION 83 MEDIATORIAL RELIGION 147 FIVE POINTS OF CHRISTIAN FAITH 177 CREED AND HERESIES OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY 201 THE CREED OF CHRISTENDOM 266 THE ETHICS OF CHRISTENDOM 299 THE RESTORATION OF BELIEF 356 ONE GOSPEL IN MANY DIALECTS 399 ST. PAUL AND HIS MODERN STUDENTS 414 SIN: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT IS NOT 466 THE DUTIES OF CHRISTIANS IN AN AGE OF CONTROVERSY 478 INTRODUCTORY THOUGHTS, FROM MR. MARTINEAU'S WRITINGS. INTRODUCTION. The American Unitarian Association in 1835 reprinted from the English edition, among their Tracts, a Sermon on "The Existing State of Theology as an Intellectual Pursuit and of Religion, as a Moral Influence." Its rare merits elicited great praise. Its author was the Rev. James Martineau, then a settled minister in Liverpool. Since that time, his occasional publications from year to year have been winning a wider audience, and awakening a deeper admiration. The history of his mind has been a broadening track of light. And now the Association feel that they cannot do a greater favor to the reading public, or better aid that cause of Liberal Christianity whose servants they are, than by printing a collection of the later writings of this gifted man, whom they first introduced to American Unitarians a quarter of a century ago.