Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation,: 10th Edition, 1890
Religion
Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation,: 10th Edition, 1890
Christianity; Incarnation
V. _Religion and Morals._ Collision between the two in Greece,
and its consequences. Synthesis of religion and morality
among the Jews: and in Christianity 68-78
Subsequent collisions between religion and morals within
the Christian Church. The Reformation a moral protest.
Immorality of its later developments. Modern protest
against these 78-82
VI. _Religion and Reason._ Protest of Greek Philosophy against
Polytheism. Christian Theology the meeting-point of Jewish
religion and Greek Philosophy 82-86
What Theology is. Objection to it from the side of
(1) religion, (2) philosophy 86-90
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity an appeal to the
reason 90-91
Its answer to the speculative problems of Greek thought
(1) as to what unity is; (2) as to the immanence of reason
in nature 91-95
The witness of the Fathers 95
The doctrine of the Trinity the true Monotheism; the
doctrine of the _Logos_ as personal yet immanent 95-96
VII. The Christian doctrine of God why challenged in the present
day 96
The deism of the last century. The new science of nature.
Evolution restores the truth of the Divine immanence which
deism denied. Pantheistic reaction 96-102
The Christian doctrine of God the safeguard of rational
religion against deism and pantheism 102-103
VIII. The so-called 'proofs' of the existence of God 103-104
Parallel between the belief in God and the belief in nature 104-107
Verification in experience the only 'proof.' Reason in both
the interpreter of Faith 107-109
III.
THE PROBLEM OF PAIN.
The problem of pain admits of no new treatment, but the attempt
to use it as an argument against Christianity calls for a
recapitulation of what may be said on the other side 113
Pain is (1) animal, (2) human.
(1) Animal pain is a thing of which we can only form
imaginative conjectures; and these, besides being liable to
exaggeration, are not of a nature to form premisses for
argument 113-116
(2) Common sense tells us that human pain contributes as
(_a_) punitive, (_b_) purgatorial, (_c_) prophylactic,
to the development of the individual and the race 116-119
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