OUTLINES OF SOCIAL THEOLOGY BY WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE, D. D, PRESIDENT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON MACMILLAN CO., LTD. 1910 All right restrvett COPYRIGHT, 1895, Bv MACMILLAN AND CO. Set up and elcctrotyped April, 1895. Reprinted September, 1895 August, 1900 June, 19x0, X a Cubing fe Go. - Berwick Smltk Norwood Mn B . U. X PREFACE IDEALISM and theology, originally joined to gether in the Gospel according to St. John were put asunder through the estrangement of the Greek and Latin churches. The Greek church ...
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OUTLINES OF SOCIAL THEOLOGY BY WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE, D. D, PRESIDENT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON MACMILLAN CO., LTD. 1910 All right restrvett COPYRIGHT, 1895, Bv MACMILLAN AND CO. Set up and elcctrotyped April, 1895. Reprinted September, 1895 August, 1900 June, 19x0, X a Cubing fe Go. - Berwick Smltk Norwood Mn B . U. X PREFACE IDEALISM and theology, originally joined to gether in the Gospel according to St. John were put asunder through the estrangement of the Greek and Latin churches. The Greek church put a metaphysic in the place of religion, and paid the penalty in spiritual sterility. The Latin church put authority in the place of reason, and paid the penalty in intellectual barrenness. Protestantism has inherited the Greek formulas without the phi losophy which gave them meaning, and the Latin distrust of reason without the authority which made dogmatism effective. The remedy lies in a reunion of vital religion with rational theology. The time has not come for writing this new the ology. The returns from psychology and soci ology, on which it will depend, are not yet in. A man however may blaze a path, even though he lacks the materials and the capacity to build a road. This little book aims to point out the log ical relations in which the doctrines of theology will stand to each other when the time shall come VI PREFACE again for seeing Christian truth in the light of reason and Christian life as the embodiment of love. I have called it Social Theology, because the Christianity of Christ and his disciples was pre eminently a social movement, and because we are looking at everything to-day from the social rather than the individualistic point of view. In ethics, in economics, in sociology, in politics, we no longer treat man as capable of isolation. Unus homo, nuttus homo, Man is what he is by virtue of his relations to that which he is not. In these special sciences we try to solve the problem of the individual by putting him into right relations with the forces and persons about him. Christ came to place man in right relations with God, with nature, and with his fellow-men. The modern man translates the Greek tyvxfi by life rather than soul. The preservation and enrichment of life, not the mere insuring and saving of the soul, is the function of religion which appeals to men to-day, And at this period of transition the adjective social serves to call attention to the shifting of emphasis from the abstract and formal relation of the isolated individual to an external Ruler, over to mans, concrete and essential relations to the Divine Life manifested in nature, history, and human society. PREFACE Vli A few paragraphs of this book, amounting to twenty or thirty pages, have appeared in pub lished sermons and addresses, and in articles in the Andover Review, the Outlook, the Century, and the Forum. The greater part, the relation of parts to each other, and the interpretation of each part in the light of the whole, is entirely new. For valuable suggestions and criticisms upon the proofs, my thanks are due to Professor Egbert C. Smyth, of Andover Seminary Professor George H. Palmer, of Harvard University and Professor D, Collin Wells, of Dartmouth College. With the exception of the first and last chap ters I have avoided the technical philosophical discussion which theology always invites. In dealing with the grounds of belief in God, in the firstchapter, I have found it impossible to treat the subject at all without assuming some familiarity with the results of metaphysical in quiry. And yet the presentation there made is the merest summary of the idealistic position. In the last chapter also I have introduced a summary of the idealistic objections to asceticism, hedonism, socialism, and promiscuous charity. The general reader is advised to skip both these chapters. Yet it was impossible to omit them from the book viii PREFACE without leaving it logically very incomplete...
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