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The Ethics of Jesus and the Modern Mind1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Daniel Evans
Affiliation:
Andover Theological Seminary

Extract

Many times during the past half-century the question raised by Strauss, “Are we still Christian?” has been asked by other persons. The vast changes in thought which have taken place within this period have led to this. The difference between the ancient and modern thought-worlds are numerous, far-reaching, and now acutely felt. We live in a universe infinite in extent, eternal in duration, dynamic in all its elements, law-abiding in all its forces and areas, developing through an immanent process of evolution by resident forces, and moving on to a far-off divine event when the purposes of God will be realized in a perfected humanity.

Our fathers, on the other hand, lived in a world recent in the date of its origin, small in extent, and made by fiat; its laws statutes to be set aside at the pleasure of its maker; its nature deranged by the sin of man; the historic process degenerative; and its end catastrophic.

It is these differences in world-view which have made many persons ask the question, “Are we still Christian?”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1911

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References

1 Address at the opening of the academic year at Andover Theological Seminary and Harvard Divinity School, September 29, 1911.