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
THE THOROUGH ETHICIZING OF RELIGION 86
I. The Pressure of the Problem 86
II. The Statement of the Problem 87
III. The Answer 89
1. Involved in Relation to Christ 89
2. The Divine Will Felt in the Ethical Command 90
3. Involved in the Nature of God's Gifts 91
4. Communion with God, Through Harmony with His
Ethical Will 92
5. The Vision of God for the Pure in Heart 92
6. Sharing the Life of God 93
7. Christ, as Satisfying Our Highest Claims on Life 94
8. The Vision of the Riches of the Life of Christ,
Ethically Conditioned 96
9. The Moral Law, as a Revelation of the Love of God 98
CHAPTER VIII
THE EMPHASIS OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS UPON THE
HISTORICALLY CHRISTIAN 102
I. The Social Consciousness Needs Historical Justification 102
II. Christianity's Response to this Need 103
THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
UPON THEOLOGICAL DOCTRINE
CHAPTER IX
GENERAL RESULTS 105
I. The Conception of Theology in Personal Terms 106
II. The Fatherhood of God, as the Determining Principle
in Theology 109
III. Christ's Own Social Emphases 111
IV. The Reflection in Theology of the Changes in the Conception
of Religion 113
CHAPTER X
THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEEPENING SENSE OF THE LIKE-MINDEDNESS
OF MEN UPON THEOLOGY 115
I. No Prime Favorites with God 116
II. The Great Universal Qualities and Interests, the Most
Valuable 117
III. Essential Likeness Under very Diverse Forms 121
IV. As Applied to the Question of Immortality 124
V. Consequent Larger Sympathy with Men, Faith in Men,
and Hope for Men 127
VI. Judgment According to Light, and the Moral Reality of
the Future Life 132
CHAPTER XI
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