Excerpt from The Contemporary Review: The Bearing of Infallibility on Religious Truth The position of the school to which I allude is rather difficult to seize. It is not easy 'to comprehend its almost fierce denial that revelation consists of propositions about God, coupled with the affirmation that it consists of the action of God unveiling Him self to man, as though the one excluded the other. Its passionate denunciations of dogma are hard to reconcile with its speculative, almost metaphysical, theology. As far as my ...
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Excerpt from The Contemporary Review: The Bearing of Infallibility on Religious Truth The position of the school to which I allude is rather difficult to seize. It is not easy 'to comprehend its almost fierce denial that revelation consists of propositions about God, coupled with the affirmation that it consists of the action of God unveiling Him self to man, as though the one excluded the other. Its passionate denunciations of dogma are hard to reconcile with its speculative, almost metaphysical, theology. As far as my present subject is concerned, I should describe it as an attempt to substitute a mystical intuition for the infallibility not only of the Church, but of Scripture and the apostles. There is supposed to be in the human soul a God consciousness, a real contact between God and the spirit of every human being in consequence of this the doctrines of revelation are so nearly akin to the conscience of mankind, that an infallible authority to impose them originally, or to transmit them when revealed, becomes superfluous. What need is there of a divinely guidedorgan of revelation when God reveals Himself immediately to the soul Such an organ is not only useless, but impossible for the divine truth is too great for words, even too wide for conception. The treasure of truth which we possess is so immense, that only a small portion of it can be realized and be coined into a medium of transmission. This incomprehensible greatness of the truth secures us from rationalism; on the other hand, we can dispense with such a mechanical instrument as an infallible Church, because God spirit ually educates the individual Christian, and the truths themselves, however mysterious, are so conformable to human nature, that they are embraced and understood with the least possible external evidence. The constitution of man 1s already so inflammable to divine truth that it bursts into flame with the smallest spark. Thus the profoundest doctrines of Christianity are neither more nor less supernatural than the dictates of the human conscience. The divinity of the Eternal Word and the Incarnation are both so wrapped up in the very constitution of man, that they can make their own way by their native conformity to the needs of man. They come to their own, and, sooner or later, their own will receive them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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