The Churches and Modern Thought An inquiry into the grounds of unbelief and an appeal for candour

arguments which help to confirm the believer, and to determine the friendly attitude of the average unbeliever. Broadly speaking, they are all comprised under two main assertion...

The facts and truths established by Science are no longer made the subject of attacks by Christian apologists in the manner that they used to be; they are now considered by them...

Our next task is to study the arguments for theism. Under these may be ranged--the cosmological argument, which concludes that there must be one eternal, unconditioned, self-exi...

General views of the development or evolution of the visible order of nature have been entertained by philosophers from the earliest historical times. There were pioneers of Evo...

The Rev. Henry Scott Jeffreys, of Sendai, contributed a paper, entitled "Some of the Native Virtues of the Japanese People," to the Japan Evangelist. The following are some, out...

Such, then, is an outline of the state of apologetics on the subject of Miracles in general, and of those connected with the central doctrines of the Church in particular. Nothi...

Finally we have to consider some arguments that have often quite as much weight with the believer as Bible apologetics or Theistic proofs. They are: (1) The power of Christianit...

Before entering upon an inquiry into religious unbelief, we need to form a correct estimate of its prevalence. If, as many would have us think, there is nothing unusual in the p...

In this and the following chapters I hope to show how matters stand with reference to the more important points at issue between the Christian apologist and the Rationalist. The...

"Justin Martyr the Apologist, who, from his birth at Shechem, was familiar with Palestine, and who lived less than a century after the time of our Lord, places the scene of the...

Copernicus's book, The Revolution of the Celestial Bodies, was printed a few days before his death, in 1543. The system was condemned by a decree of Pope Paul V., in 1616, which...

§ 1. A Summary § 2. Why Lead a Moral Life? Preliminary Remarks The Necessity for Morality Uselessness of Vague Threats The Need for an Early Education in Ethical Principles The...

"God," says Canon Liddon, "is banished from the world by deism, which puts nature in His place" (Some Elements of Religion, pp. 56-7). The seventeenth and eighteenth-century dei...

Dean Mansel said: "If there be one fact recorded in Scripture which is entitled, in the fullest sense of the word, to the name of a miracle, the Resurrection of Christ is that f...

It is very necessary to understand exactly what the theory of natural selection is and is not; because champions of the Faith, even when believing in Evolution, base some of the...

In case the reader may jump to the conclusion that this is a work compiled by collecting the most heretical views from all parts of the globe (as I was informed by the librarian...

e. We are obliged to admit that the group of human faculties which has given birth to philosophy has a less prolonged future than the group which has given rise to science.

"It is impossible to leave the history of witchcraft without reflecting how vast an amount of suffering has, in this respect at least, been removed by the progress of rationalis...

commenced between naturalists and supernaturalists. The real attitude of the laity, and especially of the cultured portion of it, is far more sceptical than the clergy imagine,...

some Christian theologians accept the conclusions of the Higher Criticism in their entirety, while many learned divines accept much that is destructive of beliefs that have been...

Christians, are in reality either deists or non-Christian theists. The recognised arguments for Theism are the evidences of a First Cause, of design and directivity, and of bene...

customs, and teachings in ancient religions with those in the Christian religion are as numerous as they are remarkable. These parallels deprive Christianity of any claim to ori...

§ 1. Preliminary Remarks Theism, and Who Are Theists § 2. The Existence of a First Cause--An Uncaused Cause § 3. The First Cause an Intelligence Design and Directivity Directivi...

§ 1. The New Theological Theory of a Progressive Revelation § 2. Parallels in Ancient Religions, and Some Remarks Upon Them Krishna and Buddha Parallels Other Than Krishna and B...

§ 1. Preliminary Remarks The Doctrine of Evolution Darwinism The Average Person's Ideas on the Evolution of Man The Attitude of the Church § 2. "Nature Red in Tooth and Claw" §...

ill-informed on the subject, the theory of evolution is explained, and convincing proofs of our animal origin are submitted. The theory is generally accepted by the cultured, th...

§ 1. Preliminary Remarks--The Power of Christianity for Good § 2. Christianity Woman's Best Friend § 3. The Overthrow of Christianity Would Endanger Society and the Nation § 4....

be true. The various attempts to explain miracles are evasions, not solutions of a difficulty, and are as specious as they are conflicting. Few thinkers could bring themselves t...

§ 1. Clashing Views on Bible Criticism § 2. A Summary of the Results of Bible Criticism § 3. By Whom the "Higher Criticism" is Accepted § 4. Admissions by Orthodox Apologists §...

The hostile evidence appears to be overwhelming. Christianity cannot be true. Provided that we see things as they really are, and not as we wish them to be, we cannot but come t...

§ 1. The Truth of the Matter § 2. The Attitude of the Laity § 3. Christianity and Science not Reconciled § 4. The Genesis and Character of the New Outburst § 5. Apologetics "Fou...

§ 1. Preliminary Remarks The View of Science Why Have Miracles Ceased? Belief in Miracles Essential § 2. Miracle Apologetics § 3. The Fundamental Miracles The Resurrection The A...