This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CHURCH Regarding the Church, recent years have developed three main groups of thinkers. One group have lost all hope for it; they count it moribund, out of date, useless. They would be willing to have it die, if they did not count it already dead. Christianity is handicapped by it and could well ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CHURCH Regarding the Church, recent years have developed three main groups of thinkers. One group have lost all hope for it; they count it moribund, out of date, useless. They would be willing to have it die, if they did not count it already dead. Christianity is handicapped by it and could well dispense with it. The hopelessness ranges all the way from the feeling that a spiritual force like Christianity ought not to have any organization at all to the saddened recognition that a once desirable institution has failed to adapt itself to new conditions so long that it is finally' incrustated and cannot change. In books on reconstruction, it is not common to find any reference to the part that the church may have in it. Many of the writers have ceased to reckon it in as a factor; it is good enough for people who like it or have any sense of need for it, but "its purposes are ornamental and sentimental." With some of this group the thought confirms the hope. They have not cared for the church in any case. Always they have looked at it from the outside. With others, the decision has come after years of effort to get certain things accomplished in the churches when they have run constantly against immovable obstacles which have left them bruised and broken and have 46 not allowed progress. These are regretful but convinced. It is quite needless to talk to them about the theology of the church. Indeed, with most of this group it is needless to talk about the theology of anything! Another group think the church is yet to become Christian for one reason or another. It is the hope of the future and if it will open out to the new day its life will continue. Some of these observers are not sanguine about the readiness of the present leadership...
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Good in No jacket. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. First edition, 1920. A call for Christian unity and reconciliation after the end of World War I. Brown hardcover printed in black, 74 pages. Minimal shelfwear, just a bit of rubbing to the corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages with just a bit of very light foxing the first and last few leaves. Most likely unread, with a few pages unopened with their upper edges still connected, no names or other markings. Sections include: The Call to Reconstruction; The Christian Theology of God; The Christian Theology of Salvation; The Church; A Concluding Word. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall.
