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In History or Beyond History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2011

C. C. McCown
C. C. McCown
Affiliation:
Pacific School of Religion
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Any wise psychologist will insist that a period of personal depression is not an appropriate time for meditation on the meaning of life. Yet it is such times that most individuals select. A period of social depression, retrogression, and catastrophe is hardly opportune for the deliberate and detached examination of the meaning of history. Yet it is in “times of trouble” that men seem most inclined to somber meditation on the subject. Numerous current publications testify that the relationship of Christianity and its doctrine of revelation to history is one of the most serious problems that the present generation of theologians has to face. Paul Tillich has characterized history as the problem of our age.

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , July 1945 , pp. 151 - 175
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1945

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References

1 The Kingdom of God and History (Chicago: Willett, Clark, and Co., 1938), p. 7Google Scholar.

2 See McCown, , “Hebrew and Egyptian Apocalyptic Literature,” Harvard Theological Review, XVIII (1925), pp. 357–411CrossRefGoogle Scholar; The Genesis of the Social Gospel, New York, 1929Google Scholar.

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8 They have likewise misled evolutionary optimists and all idealists, including the “social gospel” movement. See further discussion below.

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13 Nature, Man, and God, p. 450.