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Search - Order And Growth - As Involved In The Spiritual Constitution Of Human Society

Order And Growth As Involved In The Spiritual Constitution Of Human Society
Author: J. Llewelyn Davies

PREFACE. THIS book consists in the main of the Hulsean Lectures delivered at Cambridge in the year 1890. If it has the good fortune to prove itself helpful to any readers, it will be, I believe, through the account which it gives of the nature of the Church, and of Justice. The ideas which I have endeavoured to expound on these subjects do not c... more »laim to be original, but they are not so familiar to Christians in general as-if I am right-they ought to be. And there must be many whom the current descriptions both of the Church and of Justice entirely fail to satisfy. CONTENTS PAGE I. THE SOCIAL A ND SCIENTIFI M C O VEMENTS OF THE TIME REGARDED FROM THE CHRISTIAN PO INT O F VIEW . I IV. JUSTICE . . 86 C H A P T E R I THE SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC MOVEMENTS OF THE TIME REGARDED FROM THE CHRISTIAN POINT OF VIEW. IN studying some of the problems with which the minds of men are occupied at the present moment, I do not profess to take up the position of an unbiassed inquirer. I am convinced that Christianity helps us more effectually than any other creed to face and deal with these problems, and that the new movements and demands which the time is compelling us to study will help our Christianity to become wider and deeper. The task that I am attempting is to vindicate the spiritual constitution of human society, and to shew how order and progress alike become more intelligible to us when we invoke a Divine purpose to explain man B 2 Order and Growth CHAP. and the world. To consider the essential constitution of society is to come into close relations with inquiries in which almost all persons are now interested, with the discussions which are kindling the most heat, with the aims which are being prosecuted with the most eager enthusiasm. What is the nature of the ties which bind human beings together What is the ultimate authority of the demands and restrictions which law and public opinion take upon them to enforce What sort of ideal of human society is it legitimate or reasonable to keep before our minds What hopes may we justly entertain with regard to the condition of the masses of mankind in the approaching future These are questions to which men are earnestly seeking answers, and to which the Christian theory, as I shall contend, offers more enlightening and satisfying answers than can be obtained from any other philosophy. It will be universally recognised that there are two movements, distinguishable from each other, which are equally characteristic of our time. The one is that of social and political exploration, the other that of scien I Socialistic Democracy 3 tific discovery. The tide of each is felt to be a resistless one, carrying us all with it...

ISBN-13: 9781408637326
ISBN-10: 1408637324
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 152
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