Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking

Three elements enter into every Christian's conception of his Lord--history, experience and reflection. Jesus is to him a figure out of the past, a force in the present, and a f...

In terms of the definition of religion given in the last chapter, we may describe the Bible as the record of the progressive religious experience of Israel culminating in Jesus...

Religion is _normal_ experience. Its enemies call it "an indelible superstition," and its friends assert that man is born believing. That a few persons, here and there, appear t...

No man's spiritual life starts with himself; there is no Melchizedek soul--without father or mother. As our bodies are born of the bodies of others, as our minds are formed from...

The word "God" is often employed as though it had a fixed meaning. His part in an event or His relation to a movement is discussed with the assumption that all who speak have in...

When King Solomon's Temple was a-building, we are told that the stone was made ready at the quarry, "and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house...

The health department of a modern city is charged with a double duty: it has to care for cases of disease, and it has to suggest and enforce laws to keep the city sanitary. The...

The human life in which succeeding generations have found their picture of God ended in a bloody tragedy. It was a catastrophe which all but wrecked the loyalty of Jesus' little...

Various factors combine to make it hard for men today to believe vividly in life beyond the grave. Our science has emphasized the closeness of the connection between our spiritu...