The Constructive Quarterly (V. 3) (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Gospel and the Modern Situation By Gilbert Cljve Binyon. Turn which way we will in the religious world, we are beset by controversies. With reference to theology, to ecclesiastical matters and church life generally, to questions as to the relation between religion and the Social Problem?to name but three main groups of discussions? controversies are vigorously carried on. In each of these fields there are divers questions and varying answers; and problems started on one of these subjects merge themselves into problems more closely connected with another. It would be easy to sweep all these controversies aside as the cobwebs spun by people who have nothing better to do; but Logic has her revenge, and such a rough and ready way will not do. Certainly, however, it does seem that in many cases everything that can be said has been said, with little or no result. When this point has been reached, do we not require that there be imported into the discussion a new element affording some single idea or principle around which arguments may be grouped? Elements which, if not new in themselves, are comparatively new as elements in these discussions are not wanting. There are, conspicuously, two, which have an underlying unity with one another and afford an idea or principle such as we are in search of; these two are thecontact of Christendom and Western civilization with the rest of the world, and the Socialist movement; neither of them new, nor even new in relation to some of these controversies, yet new, perhaps, as having a bearing upon these controversies which might seem at first sight to have little or no connection with them. Both of them, however, have a bearing upon the whole of these discussions, and it is the purpose of this paper to consider that bearing. The...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Gospel and the Modern Situation By Gilbert Cljve Binyon. Turn which way we will in the religious world, we are beset by controversies. With reference to theology, to ecclesiastical matters and church life generally, to questions as to the relation between religion and the Social Problem?to name but three main groups of discussions? controversies are vigorously carried on. In each of these fields there are divers questions and varying answers; and problems started on one of these subjects merge themselves into problems more closely connected with another. It would be easy to sweep all these controversies aside as the cobwebs spun by people who have nothing better to do; but Logic has her revenge, and such a rough and ready way will not do. Certainly, however, it does seem that in many cases everything that can be said has been said, with little or no result. When this point has been reached, do we not require that there be imported into the discussion a new element affording some single idea or principle around which arguments may be grouped? Elements which, if not new in themselves, are comparatively new as elements in these discussions are not wanting. There are, conspicuously, two, which have an underlying unity with one another and afford an idea or principle such as we are in search of; these two are thecontact of Christendom and Western civilization with the rest of the world, and the Socialist movement; neither of them new, nor even new in relation to some of these controversies, yet new, perhaps, as having a bearing upon these controversies which might seem at first sight to have little or no connection with them. Both of them, however, have a bearing upon the whole of these discussions, and it is the purpose of this paper to consider that bearing. The...

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General Books LLC

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United States

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August 2009

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August 2009

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229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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532

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978-0-217-32611-7

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9780217326117

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0-217-32611-0



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