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Moral Re‐Armament

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2024

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Man is a complex being, largely due to the fact that he is a microcosm of Creation, comprising within a single unity the essential elements of the vegetable, the animal and the intellectual worlds. This is admittedly platitudinous; but it is also very widely overlooked by so many of those who produce the stream of panaceas for the cure of human ills and the remedying of human evils. Yet the simple truth is that if human nature is to be approached effectively and rightly it must be approached in its completeness and not just from one angle to the exclusion of others. The supreme example of the true approach to man for the furthering of his happiness is to be found in the Incarnation. To reveal the truth of man’s purpose, to provide a meaning to the problems of human life and to open the way to redemption and happiness, God became man and adopted as His own all the complexity of the human microcosm; and His subsequent approach to man was and is through all the channels implied in that complexity. Moreover, the point of primary importance in the Incarnation is that it is the final and perfect moment of Divine Revelation—that Revelation which covers not only the nature of God and His love-longing for man, but also the nature of man and his need for God. Though it is true that Faith without good works cannot save us, it is equally true that good works without; Faith are futile.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1939 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 What Happens at a Buchman House‐Party? By J. Shrady Post. December, 1930.

2 The Philosophy of Courage or The Oxford Group Way. By Philip Leon. (Allen and Unwin; 6s.)

3 Life of St. Dominic, p. 20. New Ed. 1934. (Burns, Oates and Washbourne.)

4 The Silver Fleece. By Robert Collis, p. 116, f. (Nelson 1936.)