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In spite of sometimes being demonized by their ecclesiastical detractors, most of the German liberals were faithful men of the church who understood themselves to be working in the service of the Christian Gospel.  For Harnack, the historical-critical method was more than an end in itself.  The rigorous application of reason was essentially a way of serving truth and restoring authentic Christianity, and the historical-critical method was the best tool for that purpose.  Harnack spoke of the Christian religion in terms of "the kernel and the husk¹," a [[metaphor]] for the missing [[heart]] of Christianity in which the "kernel" had come to be buried beneath the "husk" of church [[tradition]] as well as obscured by the Greek philosophy that became the [[language]] of doctrine.  For Harnack, the [[spiritual]] path taught by Jesus, a carpenter surrounded by fishermen, was very simple, practical, and altogether devoid of metaphysics and the supernatural.  It was a simple life of loving God, loving one's neighbor, and discovering the Kingdom of God within.  In [http://books.google.com/books?id=ozgkbKjXQIEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=adolf+von+harnack&lr=#PPP2,M1 '''''What is Christianity?'''''] Harnack spells out what he believes to be the kernel underlying the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Origins_Of_Religion_in_Universal_Consciousness religious impulse] in general, and why the Christian Gospel uniquely satisfies the hearts and [[mind]]s of [[humanity]].  He reveals that the human heart, more than anything else, longs for the [[presence]] of the [[eternal]] within [[time]], and that the Gospel validates its own [[truth]] by satisfying this longing for all that come to Jesus Christ and follow his simple teachings on the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the [[infinite]] worth of the [[soul]].
 
In spite of sometimes being demonized by their ecclesiastical detractors, most of the German liberals were faithful men of the church who understood themselves to be working in the service of the Christian Gospel.  For Harnack, the historical-critical method was more than an end in itself.  The rigorous application of reason was essentially a way of serving truth and restoring authentic Christianity, and the historical-critical method was the best tool for that purpose.  Harnack spoke of the Christian religion in terms of "the kernel and the husk¹," a [[metaphor]] for the missing [[heart]] of Christianity in which the "kernel" had come to be buried beneath the "husk" of church [[tradition]] as well as obscured by the Greek philosophy that became the [[language]] of doctrine.  For Harnack, the [[spiritual]] path taught by Jesus, a carpenter surrounded by fishermen, was very simple, practical, and altogether devoid of metaphysics and the supernatural.  It was a simple life of loving God, loving one's neighbor, and discovering the Kingdom of God within.  In [http://books.google.com/books?id=ozgkbKjXQIEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=adolf+von+harnack&lr=#PPP2,M1 '''''What is Christianity?'''''] Harnack spells out what he believes to be the kernel underlying the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Origins_Of_Religion_in_Universal_Consciousness religious impulse] in general, and why the Christian Gospel uniquely satisfies the hearts and [[mind]]s of [[humanity]].  He reveals that the human heart, more than anything else, longs for the [[presence]] of the [[eternal]] within [[time]], and that the Gospel validates its own [[truth]] by satisfying this longing for all that come to Jesus Christ and follow his simple teachings on the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the [[infinite]] worth of the [[soul]].
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==Other titles by Harnack==
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# [http://books.google.com/books?id=3AcNAAAAIAAJ History of Dogma]
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# [http://books.google.com/books?id=WMIMAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=adolf+von+harnack Essays on the Social Gospel]
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# [http://books.google.com/books?id=IOETAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=adolf+von+harnack Thoughts on the Present Position of Protestantism]
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# [http://books.google.com/books?id=ROU2AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=adolf+von+harnack&lr= New Testament Studies] Multi-volume
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# [http://books.google.com/books?id=E77IcBVtazoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=adolf+von+harnack&lr= Monasticism,, Its Ideals and History]
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# [http://books.google.com/books?id=OFwXAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=adolf+von+harnack&lr= The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries]
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# [http://books.google.com/books?id=JKsMAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=adolf+von+harnack&lr= Outlines of the History of Dogma]
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
 
#[http://books.google.com/books?id=ivUDAQAAIAAJ&q=Religion+in+Essence+and+Manifestation&dq=Religion+in+Essence+and+Manifestation&lr= Religion and Essence and Manifestation by Gerardus Leeuw]
 
#[http://books.google.com/books?id=ivUDAQAAIAAJ&q=Religion+in+Essence+and+Manifestation&dq=Religion+in+Essence+and+Manifestation&lr= Religion and Essence and Manifestation by Gerardus Leeuw]