Spiritualism and the Christian Faith

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Excerpt from Spiritualism and the Christian Faith: Being the Liverpool Lecture, 1918, Delivered Under the Auspices of the Liverpool Diocesan Board of DivinityChristianity has a definite philosophy of the nature of the Universe founded upon the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ His teaching, supremely wise and profoundly important though we affirm it to have been, was in certain respects incomplete. It was sufficient for man's moral needs: it has been of supreme value in awakening and directing man's spiritual insight. But it did not answer all the intellectual enquiries which man as he advances in understanding is led to ask. In fact, it could not do so. Many of the problems which perplex us would have been incomprehensible to those who listened to Christ. The answers to them it would have been useless for Him to give: Christ had to speak their language, to use their forms of thought. He showed amazing genius in the way in which, though thus hampered, He made clear to His listeners His view of the moralgovernment of the Uni verse, and of man's consequent duty and hopes. But He clearly contemplated that men in future ages would build upon His teaching, using it as the foundation of an ever-growing structure of metaphysical knowledge. The doctrine of the Holy Ghost, Who, as He perfects the work of Christ, leads men into all truth, is an affirmation that God will guide the thoughts of men as they seek to know more of the Universe in which they are placed and that ultimately such guidance will perfect their understanding.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.