Category: Philosophy & Ethics

The New Theology

+Religion and Theology.+--Religion is one thing and theology another, but religion is never found apart from a theology of some kind, for theology is the intellectual articulation of religious experience. Every man who has anything worthy to be called a religious experience ha...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

+Religion and Theology.+--Religion is one thing and theology another, but religion is never found apart from a theology of some kind, for theology is the intellectual articulati...

2. Chapter 2

+What religion is.+--All religion begins in cosmic emotion. It is the recognition of an essential relationship between the human soul and the great whole of things of which it i...

3. Chapter 3

+What is man?+--So far we have seen that the universe, including ourselves, is one instrument or vehicle of the self-expression of God. God is All; He is the universe and infini...

4. Chapter 4

+The problem not insoluble.+--Before going on to say more about human personality, especially the personality of Jesus, it is requisite that we should determine our attitude tow...

5. Chapter 5

+The centrality of Jesus.+--All that has been said hitherto is but a preparation for the discussion of the greatest subject that at present occupies the field of faith and moral...

6. Chapter 6

In the course of Christian history a good deal of time has been occupied in the discussion of the metaphysical question of the complex unity of the divine nature; and the result...

7. Chapter 7

+Jesus all that Christian devotion has believed Him to be.+--So far we have seen that the personality of Jesus is central for Christian faith. We deny nothing about Him that Chr...

8. Chapter 8

+Importance of the subject.+--This brings us to a subject, which, more than any other, with the exception of that of the person of Jesus, has come under discussion at the presen...

9. Chapter 9

+Atonement in history.+--What, then, has this death to do with the Atonement? A great deal; but the best way to answer the question will be to obtain a clear idea as to what the...

10. Chapter 10

+Antiquity of the essential truth.+--From what has now been said it will, I hope, be clear that the roots of the Christian doctrine of Atonement lie far back in history, especia...

11. Chapter 11

+Atonement and New Testament language.+--It will have been observed that in my examination of the subject of the Atonement I have said almost nothing about the New Testament evi...

12. Chapter 12

underlie Old Testament symbolism in regard to the Atonement, and I trust I have shown that these truths are as fresh and indispensable to-day, and play as great a part in human...

13. Chapter 13

+The inwardness of Salvation and Judgment.+--We come now to the consideration of a group of subjects which are usually treated in quite separate categories. I mean the punishmen...

14. Chapter 14

+Order of the subject.+--From the consideration of the true significance of such terms as Salvation, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, we now turn to one which might be thought to occ...

15. Chapter 15

+A personal word.+--The task which has occupied the greater part of my winter resting time has now been accomplished, as far as opportunity affords. What has been said in these...