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Excerpt from The Christian Religion in Its Doctrinal ExpressionSeveral reasons have led the writer to prepare the present work on theology. He has been a teacher of the subject during the past eighteen years. His own method and standpoint in dealing with truth have, as a natural consequence, taken definite form. Theology is like any other science in the fact that if it is alive, it grows. This does not mean that it goes beyond Christ and the N...

Excerpt from Baptist BeliefsA creed is like a crystal with many angles and facets. AS the crystal is formed in obe dience to natural law, so a creed is formed in obedience to a spiritual law. Michael Angelo chiseled the marble into the heroic figure of Moses as the expression of his artistic vision. The great creeds are the chiseled results sof Spiritual vision. What men see and feel they must express. Doctrinal statements are given exact form...

Excerpt from The Axioms of Religion: A New Interpretation of the Baptist FaithThe motives which led to the preparation of this volume are set forth in the first chapter. For a number of years the author has felt that a fresh statement of the Baptist position was possible which would enable the world to understand us better. A series of addresses, including one before the Ameri can Baptist Publication Society in St. Louis, Mo., in 1905, another...

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Excerpt from The Axioms of Religion: A New Interpretation of the Baptist Faith The motives which led to the preparation of this volume are set forth in the first chapter. For a number of years the author has felt that a fresh statement of the Baptist position was possible which would enable the world to understand us better. A series of addresses, including one before the Ameri can Baptist Publication Society in St. Louis, Mo., in 1905, anoth...

Excerpt from Why Is Christianity True? Christian Evidences Many believers and many more would-be believers in Christianity are staggered by the assumptions and sometimes by the reasoned conclusions of current science or philosophy. The need is great for a restatement of the grounds of our Christian belief. Indeed, in recent years numerous works on the subject have appeared. In Great Britain especially many valuable manuals have been published...

Excerpt from Freedom and Authority in Religion The argument which we o¿'er in these pages recognizes fully the value of the distinctive scientific criterion of explanation as employed hitherto, but it denies with emphasis its adequacy for the re ligious life. Nor does the argument depend for its cogency upon the outcome of pending discussions as to the existence in the biological world of a prin ciple of creative evolution as urged by Profess...

Excerpt from The Life in Christ Many of them have been put into manuscript form from brief or copious notes made when the ser mons were first preached. This will explain in part the varying length of the sermons. A few of them are reproduced from the manuscript as prepared in the first instance. If the reader should find an occasional repetition of a thought or illustration it will be due to the fact that the sermons were preached upon many o...

Excerpt from The Christian Religion in Its Doctrinal Expression Several reasons have led the writer to prepare the present work on theology. He has been a teacher of the subject during the past eighteen years. His own method and standpoint in dealing with truth have, as a natural consequence, taken definite form. Theology is like any other science in the fact that if it is alive, it grows. This does not mean that it goes beyond Christ and the...

Excerpt from Baptist Beliefs A creed is like a crystal with many angles and facets. AS the crystal is formed in obe dience to natural law, so a creed is formed in obedience to a spiritual law. Michael Angelo chiseled the marble into the heroic figure of Moses as the expression of his artistic vision. The great creeds are the chiseled results sof Spiritual vision. What men see and feel they must express. Doctrinal statements are given exact fo...

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