Religious Reality

A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John) Rawlinson

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RELIGIOUS REALITY
A BOOK FOR MEN
A. E. J. RAWLINSONStudent of Christ Church, Oxford; Examining
Chaplain to the Bishop of
Lichfield; Priest-In-Charge of St. John The
Evangelist, Wilton Road,
S.W.; Formerly Tutor of Keble College and Late
Chaplain to the Forces.
WITH A PREFACE
BY
THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD
1918PREFACE
BY
THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD
This is a book which is wanted. Thoughtful men, in
every class, are not afraid of theology, i.e. of a
reasoned account of their religion, but they want a
theology which can be stated without conventions
and technicalities; they do not at all care for a
religion which pretends to do away with all mystery,
but they are glad to be assured of the essential
reasonableness of the Christian Faith; they do not
expect a ready-made solution of the problem of
evil, but they wish to see it honestly faced; above
all, they want to know how Christian truth bears on
the real problems of life; the best of them are not
at all afraid of a religion which makes big demands
on them, but they know well enough the difficulty of
responding to those claims, and their greatest
need of all is to find and to use that life and power,
coming from a living Person, without which our
best aspirations must fail and our highest ideals
remain unrealized.
These needs seem to me to be satisfactorily and
happily met in the following pages. My friend and
chaplain, Mr. Rawlinson, has had good means of
knowing what men are and what they want. He has
had to do with the undergraduate, with officers andmen in the Army, and with the ordinary civilian in
parish life. He has been able to see the nature and
needs of our British manhood at different angles,
and he is the sort of man with whom men are not
afraid to talk. He has had good opportunity of
diagnosing the situation, and this book shows his
skill in dealing with it.
I do not find myself in agreement with everything in
these pages, but when I am conscious of
difference of view, I am no less grateful for the
stimulus to thought. I am specially thankful that the
writer has been so courageous in tackling the most
difficult subjects.
I know that the author's one desire is to help men
to be more real in their religion. I share his hope,
and I believe that this book will do much to
accomplish it.AUTHOR'S PREFACE
This book has grown out of the writer's experience
in preparing men and officers in military hospitals
for Confirmation. It represents, in a considerably
expanded but—as it is hoped—still simple form,
the kind of things which he would have wished to
say to them, and to others with whom he was
brought into contact, if he had had more time and
opportunity than was usually afforded him. It
seemed necessary to write the book, because
there did not appear to be in existence any
reasonably short book on similar lines which
covered the ground of Christian faith and practice
as a whole, and which approached the subject
from the point of view which seems to the writer to
be the most real.
The writer is consciously indebted in the first
chapter to the discussion of our Lord's teaching
and character in Dr. T. B. Glover's fascinating
book, The Jesus of History. It is possible that there
are other and unconscious obligations which have
been overlooked. Here and there acknowledgment
is made in footnotes, and an occasional phrase,
"lifted" from some other writer, has been placed in
inverted commas.
In Chapter VIII. of Part I. the author has echoed
the thought, and to a certain extent the wording, of
parts of his own essay on "The Principle of
Authority" in Foundations.For help in the correction of the proofs, and for
criticisms and suggestions which have led to
numerous modifications and improvements in
matters of detail, the thanks of the writer are due
to various friends, and more particularly to his
brother, Lieutenant A. C. Rawlinson, of the
Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars; to the Rev.
Austin Thompson, Vicar of S. Peter's, Eaton
Square; and to the Rev. Leonard Hodgson, Vice-
Principal of S. Edmund Hall, Oxford.
November, 1917.CONTENTS
PREFACE BY THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD
INTRODUCTION
PART I
THE THEORY OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
CHAP.
I. THE MAN CHRIST JESUS
II. THE REVELATION OF THE FATHER
III. THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE SPIRIT
IV. THE HOLY TRINITY
V. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
VI. SIN AND REDEMPTION
VII. THE CHURCH AND HER MISSION IN THE
WORLDVIII. PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC
IX. SACRAMENTS
X. THE LAST THINGS
XI. CLERGY AND LAITY
XII. THE BIBLE
PART II
THE PRACTICE OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
I. THE CHRISTIAN AIM
II. THE WAY OF THE WORLD
III. THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH
IV. THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL
V. THE KINGDOM OF GOD
VI. CHRISTIANITY AND COMMERCE
VII. CHRISTIANITY AND INDUSTRY