Socrates and Christ - A Study in the Philosophy of Religion #232876

This brief study, covering as it does a Wide and pre eminently important period of human history, is not in any way exhaustive. Of its shortcomings in many directions I am deeply sensible. Throughout, the de sign has been to group afresh ascertained facts, to exhibit their inter-connection, and to emphasise their essential differences, rather than to bring forward evi dence which had been neglected or even unnoted hitherto. An attempt has been made to show that the development of Greek thought and the peculiar charac ter of Judaism necessarily rendered Christ's work dif ferent from that of Socrates. While dogmatic theology undoubtedly contains very many elements derived from Greek philosophy, Christianity at its source is in no wise Greek. Philosophy partly prepared the way for it, and originated not a few doctrines which afterwards became incorporated in Christian dogma. This, how ever, was only a secondary relationship.