The Coming Creed (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The question as to whether Christianity should be considered primarily a system of doctrine, or a way of life, is of fundamental importance. For centuries the former idea has overwhelmingly predominated. Life has been subordinated to dogma. The effort Of the Church has been to crowd the eternal truths Of the Gospel into narrow and unelastic creedal statements, and to make assent to these the condition of its fellowship. This is the dog matic ideal of church life which has become so strongly intrenched in the thinking of many Christians that it seems to them like treachery to the cause of Christ even to call it into question.

One of the most significant features Of the present religious situation is the growing dis content with the dogmatic ideal Of church life. The feeling is wide spread that the creeds, which in the historic orthodox churches stand for Christianity, are in their present form the survival of a thought world which has been outgrown, and that they are consequently a hinderance to faith rather than its bulwark.

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