This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...assigned to history while the divine will go to faith. Q. Must we not, therefore, distinguish two Christs, two Churches, etc.? A. Yes. We have that distinction, so current among the Modernists, between the Christ of history and the Christ of faith, between the Church of history and the Church of faith, between the Sacraments of history and the Sacraments of faith, and so on. Q. In regard to that human element, which alone Agnosticism allows us to retain for historical work, what does the second philosophical principle, or the principle of transfiguration, teach the Modernist? A. We find that the human element itself, which the historian has to work on, as it appears in the documents, has been by faith transfigured; that is to say, raised above its historical conditions. Q. According to this principle of transfiguration, what second law governs Modernist history? A. It becomes necessary to eliminate also the accretions which faith has added, to assign them to faith itself, and to the history of faith. Q. Consequently, what must the Modernist historian eliminate from the history of Jesus Christ? A. When treating of Christ, the historian must set aside all that surpasses man in his natural condition, either according to the psychological conception of him, or according to the place and period of his existence. Q. What third law does the Modernist derive from the philosophical principle of disfiguration? A. By virtue of the third principle, even those things which are not outside the sphere of history they pass through the crucible, excluding from history and relegating to faith everything which, in their judgment, is not in harmony with what they call the logic of facts, and in character with the persons of whom they are predicted. Q....

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