Our Faith in God Through Jesus Christ; Four Apologetic Addresses (Paperback)

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. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... Foreword THE four addresses which follow were delivered at a conference held in Belfast during January 1922 by the Student Christian Movement and the Irish Christian Fellowship. In the form of answers to four common questions they attempt to outline and defend the Christian view of God, and to set forth the more obvious of its implications for life. Written as they were for a conference concerned very largely with Irish problems and affairs, they are, at points, decidedly topical in treatment; but all such references will, I think, be found by the readers to be easily susceptible of translation into forms suitable to quite other environments. The aim of the writer throughout has been practical rather than theoretical, and these addresses are offered to the public, not as a considered statement of systematic apologetics, but as the attempt of an individual to deal positively, and untheologically, so far as possible, with some of the more persistent doubts in the general I T mental atmosphere of our day. X, Belfast, January 1921 Is it Reasonable? INTELLECTUALLY, the modern world is very much alive; everything men believe is being placed under the microscope, and not least religious beliefs, the very importance of which, as concerned with the fundamental problems of the universe and the ultimate issues of life, has led to an exceptional interest in the questions of religion, and above all of the Christian faith. Not a few to-day within the Church, or on its borders, are greatly concerned about the shaking which the Christian systems of the past have recently undergone, by reason of the literary and philosophical criticisms that modern and scientific inquiry and discovery have brought to birth, and by reason of the social and practical...