How It Would Explain Life's Paradoxes and Inequalities By Mauatce A. Browns, though in one form or another an integral part of Oriental religions, ind current among ancient and widely separated races, seems general to have been disregarded by the Christian Church. However, as Christian theologian has cautiously admitted that it is "not absolutely incompatible with the revealed truths of Christianity" it would seem permissible to re-open the question which was shelved rather than settled in 553 A. D.
That was the year in which the second Council of Constantinople, after centuries of dispute within the, Church, pronounced the doctrine of pre-existence and reincarnation a heresy, more than 300 years after it had been enunciated by Origen, one of the most influential of the early, Fathers, The tendency to suppress these teachings may have followed on the half-conscious conviction of, ipreme importance of concen ing on the work and struggle of this present life.
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