By Lyman Abbott
Lyman Abbott was once an American liberal theologian and a confidant of Theodore Roosevelt. He was once a reasonable guy who sought to re-establish Christian religion one of the American humans in a interval of switch. This ebook, first released in 1893, argued that non secular adventure is usually new and for this reason all ages calls for a brand new expression for it. A believer within the chance of harmonious coexistence among the Church and evolutionary conception, Abbott proposed a 'more intelligible and credible' faith that endeavoured to maintain religion by means of expressing it in modern phrases. He maintained that technological know-how and religion have been appropriate and that either average and religious parts belonged to a shared nation ruled by way of the legislation of growth. mixing religion in ancient Christianity with trust in growth and evolutionary concept, Abbott aimed to supply a bridge among non secular existence and past due nineteenth-century philosophical proposal.
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The Bible has emancipated the mind, set men thinking, and created differences and divisions. Not without historical warrant does Kaulbach, in his cartoon of the Reformation, group all the intellectual activity of the Seventeenth Century around Luther with his open Bible in his hand. The Bible reveals truth not by making it so plain that men need not study, but by making it so fascinating that they must study. Lessing said EVOLUTION AND RELIGION. 25 that if one offered him Truth in the one hand and Search for Truth in the other, he would choose Search for Truth.
23 and feel, awakens their life, and so develops in them a capacity to perceive and receive the truths of the moral and the spiritual order. God is not veiled, but man is blind; and the Bible opens the eyes of the blind. The church has indeed often adopted, consciously or unconsciously, the philosophy of Lord Macaulay and Dean Burgon; it has endeavored to crystallize truth into a formal and final state. For a creed is truth crystallized. But a crystal is a dead thing, and truth is living. Truth is not a crystal, it is a seed.
33 It is quite possible that he passes by the ecclesiastical laws altogether, but if he studies them he does not comply with them. The early revelation required circumcision; but his children are not circumcised. It required worship to be performed only in the Temple, or chiefly there, but he rightly believes one place to be as sacred as another. It forbade all conduct of public worship except by the children of a single specified parentage, but in his church the conduct of public worship is thrown open to any man properly equipped, spiritually and intellectually, for the performance of that function.
