The Church and the changing order

Shailer Mathews

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BY
SHAILER MATHEWS
PROFESSOR OF HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO; AUTHOR OF "THE
SOCIAL TEACHING OF JESUS," "THE MESSIANIC
HOPE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT"; EDITOR OF
"THE WORLD TO-DAY"
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON
: & CO.. Ltd.
1907
Aff rights reserved
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\- —Gushing IJerwick «fe Smith Co.J. 8. Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.CONTENTS
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—elements. II. Can this gospel of fact behistorical
effectively to this modern world ? i . Thepreached
pragmatic philosophy.tendency to replace fact by
and the historical2. The Jesus of experience Jesus.
preaching this historicalSpecific objections to3.
Criticism, (d) miracles, (c) eschatol-gospel, (a)
— III. As to the preaching of the gospel ofogy.
immortality. Objections to such preaching. Evo-
The real issue before thelution and immortality.
— How shall the gospel be preached?church. IV.
primitive insistence upon the historic ele-I. With
2. Distinguishing facts from their inter-ments.
intellectualpretation. By the use of current3.
— evangelicalism of the manconceptions. V. The
the gospel ofwho, on unhistorical grounds, beheves
the resurrection of Jesus.
CHAPTER IV
The Church and the Gospel of Brotherhood . 91
The power of the church to emphasize generic
I. Thehuman interest as a basis of real fraternity.
religion, i. Religion associal content of evangelic
unifying factor in life. 2. Thethe expression of a
—gospel as a basis of fraternity. II. The method of
the church in bringing about fraternity, i. Its
philosophy. 2. Its insistenceappeal to life not
in his world.upon the presence ofGod
CHAPTER V
The Church and Social Discontent . . .116
Alienation of the masses from the church. I. The
three types ofdiscontent, i. Economic. 2. PoHti-
— socialcal. 3. Religious. II. The real nature of
discontent. i. It is not pathological. 2. It is
based upon idealism. Not exclusively economic.3.