Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.)

In the discussion of the influence of the social consciousness upon theological doctrine, we turn now to ask concerning the third element of the social consciousness, How does t...

1. First, then, taken with the sense of the likeness of men, it can hardly be doubted that sociology's strong feeling of the mutual influence of men deepens for theology the tho...

Obviously, here, the change will be largely one of mood. We shall look at our themes with a different feeling, and so speak differently, modifying our methods of putting things...

1. _Emphasizes Everywhere the Personal._--The social consciousness sees man as preëminently the social animal, made for personal relations, irrevocably and essentially knit up w...

The most important and fundamental inquiry as to the possible help of theology to the social consciousness still remains: What is the ultimate explanation and ground of the soci...

The social consciousness looks to the thorough ethicizing of religion. If the social consciousness is to be regarded as historically justified, it must believe that this growing...

The simplest and probably the most accurate single expression we can give to the social consciousness, is to say that it is a growing sense of the real brotherhood of men. But f...

1. _Nash's Definition._--In trying to set forth the "main mood and motives of religious speculation" in the early Christian centuries, Professor Nash takes, as perhaps the two s...

The question of this third division of our inquiry is this: To what changed points of view, and to what restatements of doctrine, and so to what better appreciation of Christian...

THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEEPENING SENSE OF THE VALUE AND SACREDNESS OF THE PERSON UPON THEOLOGY 179 I. The Recognition of the Personal in Man 180 1. Man's Personal Separateness fro...

The analogy of the organism has played so large a part in the history of thought, especially in the consideration of ethical and social questions, that it is well worth while to...

With this positive and negative definition of the social consciousness in our minds, a third question immediately suggests itself to one who wishes to go to the bottom of our th...

The fact that the social consciousness tends to emphasize in religion the concretely historically Christian, has been so inevitably involved in the preceding discussions, that i...

THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEEPENING SENSE OF THE MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF MEN UPON THEOLOGY 136 I. The Real Unity of the Race 136 II. Deepening the Sense of Sin 139 III. Mutual Influence...

THE EMPHASIS OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS UPON THE PERSONAL RELATION IN RELIGION, AND SO UPON THE TRULY MYSTICAL 66 I. The Social Consciousness Tends Positively to Emphasize the...

THE ULTIMATE EXPLANATION AND GROUND OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS 35 I. How can it be, Metaphysically, that we do Influence One Another? 35 1. Not Due to the Physical Fact of Race...

THE THOROUGH ETHICIZING OF RELIGION 86 I. The Pressure of the Problem 86 II. The Statement of the Problem 87 III. The Answer 89 1. Involved in Relation to Christ 89 2. The Divin...

THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEEPENING SENSE OF THE LIKE-MINDEDNESS OF MEN UPON THEOLOGY 115 I. No Prime Favorites with God 116 II. The Great Universal Qualities and Interests, the Most...

THE NECESSITY OF THE FACTS OF WHICH THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE REFLECTION, IF IDEAL INTERESTS ARE TO BE SUPREME 29 I. The Question 29 II. Otherwise, No Moral World at all 3...

THE INADEQUACY OF THE ANALOGY OF THE ORGANISM AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS 23 I. The Value of the Analogy 23 II. The Inevitable Inadequacy of the Analogy 24 1. I...

THE DEFINITION OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS 9 I. The Sense of the Like-Mindedness of Men 9 II. The Sense of the Mutual Influence of Men 11 1. Contributing Lines of Thought 11 2....

THE OPPOSITION OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS TO THE FALSELY MYSTICAL 55 I. What is the Falsely Mystical? 55 1. Nash's Definition 55 2. Herrmann's Definition 56 II. The Objections...

GENERAL RESULTS 105 I. The Conception of Theology in Personal Terms 106 II. The Fatherhood of God, as the Determining Principle in Theology 109 III. Christ's Own Social Emphases...