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Conscience, Creeds and Critics; A Plea for Liberty of Criticism Within the Church of England

Conscience, Creeds and Critics; A Plea for Liberty of Criticism Within the Church of England

Emmet, Cyril William

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ISBN10: 1151454346
ISBN13: 9781151454348
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 20
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.04 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V MODERN THOUGHT AND ITS CLAIMS I We may now come back from these more or less subsidiary questions to some consideration of what are after all the real principles at issue. It will be generally admitted that the fundamental questions which lie behind the theological controversies of the day are such as these: What is the relation of faith values to phenomenal fact, of religion itself to its theological analysis expressed in Creeds and elsewhere? How far is our belief in a personal God and a spiritual interpretation of the world really bound up with an acceptance of the miraculous? By a very general assent miracles (in the old sense) have been largely ehminated from the Old Testament much to its real gain; are they necessary to the New? We have already discussed one aspect of this problem in asking how far belief in the Incarnation is dependent on a belief in the Virgin Birth, or the belief in the Resurrection on the Empty Tomb.1 What we are bound to consider the only right method of approach to these questions has been fully recognised by Dr. Gore himself in the past: On the whole a free intellectual life is essential to religion. A religion which cannot face facts or assimilate all real knowledge becomes a superstition. And any change in the intellectual atmosphere demands--not a fresh revelation but a fresh theology--a fresh presentation of the old creed in new intellectual terms. We are all familiar with the peril which besets an old religion of becoming fanatical and obscurantist in face of new knowledge.1 Dr. Gore apparently uses creed in the sense of faith, but if the old faith needs to be presented in new intellectual terms we obviously cannot exclude as inadmissible all attempts to re-interpret or restate the old creeds in which ...

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