The Prophets of the Christian Faith
The Prophets of the Christian Faith
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The force of Edwards's influence had spent itself, or, rather, its soul had gone to feed an intellectual idealism, and its body had degenerated into a hard formalism. His over- whelming sense and assertion of God — a thing not easily brought within the limits of theology or philosophy as they are usually regarded — had lost its inspiring power.
When Dr. Bushnell began his ministry in Hartford in 1888, the churches may be said to have been living under a system rather than under truths. I will n...ot use my limited space to enforce the distinction, though it is one of real importance. The good qualities that we ascribe to the churches of that day grew out of the truths involved in their theological sys- 169 170 Prophets of the Christian Faith tern ; their faults sprang out of their insistence that those truths must be so defined and shaped as to form a coherent system. It was a marvel of exactness — definitions and proof -texts be- ing accepted — but it never satisfied the think- ers, and was constantly being ^^ improved." In its last form it reposes in unpublished manu- scripts or unread volumes.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The force of Edwards's influence had spent itself, or, rather, its soul had gone to feed an intellectual idealism, and its body had degenerated into a hard formalism. His over- whelming sense and assertion of God — a thing not easily brought within the limits of theology or philosophy as they are usually regarded — had lost its inspiring power.
When Dr. Bushnell began his ministry in Hartford in 1888, the churches may be said to have been living under a system rather than under truths. I will n...ot use my limited space to enforce the distinction, though it is one of real importance. The good qualities that we ascribe to the churches of that day grew out of the truths involved in their theological sys- 169 170 Prophets of the Christian Faith tern ; their faults sprang out of their insistence that those truths must be so defined and shaped as to form a coherent system. It was a marvel of exactness — definitions and proof -texts be- ing accepted — but it never satisfied the think- ers, and was constantly being ^^ improved." In its last form it reposes in unpublished manu- scripts or unread volumes.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Abbott Lyman to read onlineMoreLess
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