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Spiritual experience and theological science: a reconciliation
Spiritual experience and theological science a reconciliation Author:Charles Cuthbert Hall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AND THEOLOGICAL SCIENCE: A RECONCILIATION nilHEBE is no denying the gravity of the con- J- siderations that present themselves upon t... more »he assembling of the members of this School of Theology for the labours of another year. It is the first instinct of an open mind to sit in judgment upon itself and upon its own work. To such a mind the fact that an 'institution, a method or a belief exists is not conclusive evidence of the value of that institution, the adequacy of that method, the truth of that belief. Everything must justify itself and show cause why it should continue to be. Accordingly, at the opening of this academic year, questions press for answer that search the foundations of our institutional life and practice, and call upon us to show that this School of Theological Science has a right, as well as a name, to live. Is there here a true conception of the place of a Theological School in the religious development of our time ? Is there in practice a method tending to realize that true conception! Is there a spirit beneath the method commensurate with the end in SEP 27 190820715'; view? If not, then this School, maintained at great cost, is a purposeless waste, doing what is not needed; what, being blindly and unwisely done, is making matters worse. The time was when the Theological School as an institution of Christianity was taken for granted, as a blessing to the church and to the world. Now, and for some time past, it has been scrutinized with questioning eyes, and called to account at the bar of educated public opinion. This is far from regrettable; on the contrary, it is a desirable condition. Only that which is obsolete may expect to escape criticism from this observant age. No institution that counts itself alive and with a living ...« less