“A great mass of new knowledge has come into [humanitys] possession: new knowledge about the physical universe,its origin, its forces, its laws; new knowledge about human history and in particular about the ways in which the ancient peoples used to think in matters of religion and the methods by which they phrased and explained their spiritual experiences; and new knowledge, also, about other religions and the strangely similar ways in which [people]’s faiths and religious practices have developed everywhere. The new knowledge and the old faith cannot be left antagonistic or even disparate, as though a person on Saturday could use one set of regulative ideas for [their] life and on Sunday could change gear to another altogether. We must be able to think our modern life clear through in Christian terms, and to do that we also must be able to think our Christian faith clear through in modern terms.” - Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1922 “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” #TBT #throwbackthursday
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:23:06 +0000
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