Theology and the Social Consciousness: A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.)King, Henry Churchill
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Theology and the Social Consciousness: A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.)
King, Henry Churchill
Christian sociology; Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- 20th century
Mutual influence of men, 11 ff;
contributing lines of thought, 11 ff;
threefold form of the conviction, 13 ff;
as element of social consciousness, 11 ff, 50;
influence upon theological doctrine, 136 ff;
for good, 144 ff;
in attainment of character, 145 ff;
in personal relation to God, 160 ff;
in confession of faith, 167 ff.
Mystical, the falsely, opposition of the social consciousness to,
55 ff, 57 ff;
Nash's definition of, 55, 56;
Herrmann's definition of, 56, 57;
unethical, 58;
no real personal God, 58;
belittles personal in man, 59;
Paul's rejection of, 60, 61;
leaves historically Christian, 62 ff.
Mystical, the truly, emphasized by the social consciousness, 66 ff,
70 ff;
requires laws of a deepening friendship, 67;
requires ideal conditions of the richest life, 68;
protest in favor of whole man, 78 ff;
its self-controlled recognition of emotion, 82 ff.
Mysticism, its relation to the social consciousness, 55 ff;
false, 55 ff;
true, 66 ff, 70 ff;
justifiable and unjustifiable elements in, 71 ff;
its dangers:
emotionalism, 71;
subjectivism, 72;
under-estimating historical, 72;
mistiness, 73;
pantheism, 73 ff;
symbolism, 76.
justifiable elements in, summed up, 77.
Nash, H. S., on ethical basis of social consciousness in will of God,
45 ff;
his definition of the mystical, 55, 56;
referred to, 70;
on doctrine of divine personality, 210;
on the supernatural, 217.
Neo-Darwinian school, referred to, 37.
Neo-Platonic mysticism, 55 ff, 74.
_New World, The_, reference to, 12, 120.
Neitzsche, criticism of, by Everett, 120.
Obligation, sense of, 18 ff;
element in social consciousness, 18, 51.
Organism, analogy of, 23 ff;
value of, 23;
classical expression in I Cor. 12;
inadequacy of, for social consciousness, 24 ff:
comes from the sub-personal world, 24;
access to reality only through ourselves, 24;
mistaken passion for construing everything, 25;
tested by definition of social consciousness, 26 ff.
Orr's _The Christian View of God and the World_, reference to, 51.
Pantheism, tendency to, in mysticism, 58, 74.
Paul, his rejection of the falsely mystical, 60, 61, 83.
Paulsen, on key to reality, 25;
reference to, 30, 129;
on necessity of faith, 46, 47.
Peabody, F. G., referred to, 65;
on the social principles of Jesus, 111;
on Christ's individualism, 229.
Person, value of, 16 ff, 50;
influence of sense of value of, on theology, 179 ff;
reverence for, characterizing all God's relation to men, 226 ff.
Personal, the, recognition of, 179 ff;
recognition of, in man, 180 ff;
recognition of, in Christ, 184 ff;
recognition of, in God, 207 ff.
"Personal idealism," 180, 181, 210.
Personal relation, in religion, emphasized by social consciousness,
66 ff;
leads to the truly mystical, 70 ff.
Philo, as representative of mysticism, 55.
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