Creed and the Creeds

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: PEEFACE The title under which these lectures were written and delivered may seem insufficient for them as published. For the enquiry proposed into the religious value of formularies of belief and the credal principle which underlies them, became on its way something larger? the search for a ground of 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: PEEFACE The title under which these lectures were written and delivered may seem insufficient for them as published. For the enquiry proposed into the religious value of formularies of belief and the credal principle which underlies them, became on its way something larger? the search for a ground of the soul's spiritual endeavour which should be neither church tradition nor private conscience, but should be both and more than both. Its scope was no longer to reconcile two members of the religious fact?authority and reason, church and believer; but to comprehend in one two regions of universal fact?religion and nature, life in the Spirit and life in the world. The continuity of all existence, the oneness of things holy and things common, things present and things to come, life in the Spirit and life in the world, ?this one creation of the One God seemed to open to the view, and the closed folds of the sacred and the secular to throw their fences down: the walls of space and time were rolled apart. 'Our eyes behold a far-stretching land.' Across the equal plain thus expanded lie the roads which, we surmise, will lead us, taught by the principle taken in chapter{{Section 4our quest for guide, to some rallying-point of Faith's scattered and disharmonised defenders; and to some meeting-point, where they that call themselves Faith's adversaries, and are not, shall discover themselves her allies. It may be only another instance of that illusion of Greatness, which seizes every age and every student of his own age; but to this student of our time it does seem that the time is great. It is in travail with a birth, magnum incrementum, a new vision of Faith and of the Fortune of Man; a vision to which creeds and their interpretations, in common with all human 'forms of sound words, '..