Challenge to Christian Missions Missionary Questions the Modern Mind
Challenge to Christian Missions Missionary Questions the Modern Mind
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But Arnold's " Light of Asia " is not the native article ; it is a Western setting of the Buddha- story, recast in the Christian mould by one who has unconsciously carried over Christian ideas and terms for its interpretation. By Mr Fielding's own confession, his " Soul of a People " is not the every-day Burmese religion but a semi-poetic subtilising of it. Buddhism in its pure form is despairing pessimism, and in its popular guise is unhappily blind, idolatrous superstition. Superstitions as b...lind envelop the Chinese worship of ancestors {pace Lord Curzon, who likens it to the memorials of the distinguished dead in Westminster Abbey), and leave the soul without a God. The ancient symbols which once held striking imagery of the Unseen are no longer transparent but opaque, and obscure more than they reveal.
These races of the pagan world know no personal Father of mankind enveloping the world with conscious care and love, no re- demptive suffering in the Divine heart, no salvation from sin as sin (only from the ache of life^), no Spirit of grace descending to make new creatures of evil men, no pledge of vital ^ For a sane and just statement of the reality in Chinese temples, see Gibson's Mission Problems, p.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But Arnold's " Light of Asia " is not the native article ; it is a Western setting of the Buddha- story, recast in the Christian mould by one who has unconsciously carried over Christian ideas and terms for its interpretation. By Mr Fielding's own confession, his " Soul of a People " is not the every-day Burmese religion but a semi-poetic subtilising of it. Buddhism in its pure form is despairing pessimism, and in its popular guise is unhappily blind, idolatrous superstition. Superstitions as b...lind envelop the Chinese worship of ancestors {pace Lord Curzon, who likens it to the memorials of the distinguished dead in Westminster Abbey), and leave the soul without a God. The ancient symbols which once held striking imagery of the Unseen are no longer transparent but opaque, and obscure more than they reveal.
These races of the pagan world know no personal Father of mankind enveloping the world with conscious care and love, no re- demptive suffering in the Divine heart, no salvation from sin as sin (only from the ache of life^), no Spirit of grace descending to make new creatures of evil men, no pledge of vital ^ For a sane and just statement of the reality in Chinese temples, see Gibson's Mission Problems, p.
What to read after Challenge to Christian Missions Missionary Questions the Modern Mind?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by R E Robert Ethol Welsh to read onlineMoreLess
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