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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

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

Name: Theology and the Social Consciousness: A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.)
Author: King, Henry Churchill

King, Henry Churchill

Christian sociology; Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- 20th century

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 of the Social Consciousness to the Falsely
       Mystical                                                     57
      1. Unethical                                                  58
      2. Does not Give a Really Personal God                        58
      3. Belittles the Personal in Man                              59
      4. Leaves the Historically, Concretely Christian              62


 CHAPTER VI

 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 Personal Relation in Religion                            66
      1. Emphasizes Everywhere the Personal                         66
      2. Requires the Laws of a Deepening Friendship in
         Religion                                                   67
      3. Requires the Ideal Conditions of the Richest Life
         in Religion                                                68
   II. The Social Consciousness thus Keeps the Truly Mystical       70
      1. The Justifiable and Unjustifiable Elements
         in Mysticism                                               71
       (1) Emotion, the Test                                        71
       (2) Subjective Tendency                                      72
       (3) Underestimating the Historical                           72
       (4) Tendency toward Vagueness                                73
       (5) Tendency toward Pantheism                                73
       (6) Tendency to Extravagant Symbolism                        76
      2. The Protest in Favor of the Whole Man                      78
      3. The Self-Controlled Recognition of Emotion                 82


 CHAPTER VII

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