forty years ago. In Christianity there was never so little dogmatism as at the present time. We draw inferences from our knowledge about ourselves and the world and the spiritual history of mankind, regarding the spiritual realities which lie at the basis of our life. But great systems of theological thought, containing as they always do, many half-truths, and conferring long life upon many things which would fall of their own weight if left to stand by themselves, are not in great favor at the present time. Christianity is fundamentally a life, not a doctrine. Men must think, in order to live. And their thoughts will take to themselves some kind of formulation. Doctrines, more or less elaborate, and more or fewer in number, we shall always have, in religion as in science and philosophy. But increasingly they will be matters of individual preference and interpretation; and behind them all, will lie the life and the ideals that entered the world with Jesus Christ, and that create for themselves with every generation, new garments out of the changing thoughts of men. This thought of our own generation, God give us to understand till the voice of the age becomes the voice of Him who in all ages speaks in the dialect of every people to the heart of every man. INDEX Apocrypha: historical value of, spiritual value of, 65-69 evangelistic point of view, 94 development of, 152, 153 different from other books, 139, doctrines of inspiration of, 140, value of different sections of, growing Christian ideal, 140, Christ, the supreme revelation of precedence established in his- divinity of, 143, 144, 146, 147 Christian theology, doctrines of: Salvation, 154, 155 Trinity, 147-151 Virgin Birth, 144-147 changes in Darwin, Charles, natural selection, function of, Darwin, Charles, egoism vs. al- religious and spiritual implica- Darwin, Charles, position in XIX Darwin, Charles, Theory of Evo- struggle for existence, 6 survival of the fittest, 6, 7 opposition of the church, 8, 9 modern opponents of, 12-13 doctrine of the Fall of man, 33 universe an ongoing, forward- new and better idea of God, Evolution, early history of, 1-5 human history, upward prog- Lamarck, theory of species, 3, Spencer, "Principles of Bi- 157 Evolution, contradictions in in- Evolution, reasons for acceptance geology, 14-15 biology, 15-17 anatomy, 17-20 God: character of, 129-134 revelation of, 134-147 God: developing idea of in Old Luke vs. Mark, 80-82 "Logia," or Sayings of Jesus, Heredity, 23-26 Darwin, transmission of ac- Weismann, varieties of cells, DeVries, theory of mutations, Mendelian law, 25, orthogenesis, 26 26 Idealism, Berkeley's philosophy, ideas and knowledge, 106 Berkeley and the moderns, 109, Immortality, doctrine of, 155 purpose of philosophy, 115 modern lack of interest in, change in value of, 136-138 apologetic, Neo-realism contrasted with historical value of, 96-99 composite character of books, several books on same roll, 75, marginal notes, 76, 77 liturgical passages in Epistles, "we" passages in Acts, 79, 80 New Testament, historical value New Testament writings, dates data in books themselves, 72- Gospels, dates of, 89-92 Old Testament: authorship of, chronology, 41-46 historical value of, 56-58 compilation, principles of, 46, stories of creation and flood, Tel-el-Amarna tablets, 58 Old Testament writings, dates of, indications in text, 41-43 comparison of ideas and in- estimate of modern thought of, systems of, 106-123 truth, 110, 112, 113 Pluralism an offshoot of, 110, Religions of Asia and Europe, Religious ideas, development of tribal, 61, 62 identified with local baalim, ethical monotheism of later ritual to righteousness, 63, 64 miracles, 135-138 in human experience, 138, 139 Salvation, doctrine of, 154, 155 modern interpretation of, 154, Trinity, doctrine of, 147-151 modern interpretation of, 149 Truth, theories of, 107-110, 112, Virgin Birth, doctrine of, 144-147 importance of in modern |