Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
It was Gerald Heard who said: “Newton banished God from nature, Darwin banished Him from life, and now Freud has banished Him from His last stronghold, the soul.” The one thing I wish here to suggest about that dictum is this—that if for great numbers of our contemporaries the effect of Newton, Darwin and Freud has been to banish the divine, it has even more emphatically been to banish the demonic. St. Paul's “principalities and powers” and “spirit forces of evil” are now known, we are told, to have been mere apocalyptic imagination.
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page 293 note 2 Institutes 1.14.
page 296 note 1 I John 2.18, 20.
page 296 note 2 2 Cor. 2.8.
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page 297 note 4 op. cit., p. 203.
page 298 note 1 The Glorious Gospel, p. 6.
page 298 note 2 Col. 2.15.
page 299 note 1 op. cit., p. 7.
page 299 note 2 Christ and Time, p. 198.
page 300 note 1 Even the Jewish Rabbis did the same: the angels, they pointed out, were created on the second or later days, not on the first, and therefore had themselves no part in creation (Dibelius, op. cit., p. 189).