The spiritual return of Christ within the church; papers on Christian theism

Richard De Bary

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• Mysticism

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PAPERS ON CHEISTIAN THEISM
BY RICHARD DE BARY
CHAPLAIN TO THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY
" untoA crown of righteousness . . .
all them also who love His appearing."
2 Timothy iv. 8.
NEW YORK
K P. BUTTON AND COMPANY
1907BritainPrinted in GreatNOTEPUBLISHER'S
inor rather an adventure,The book is an essay,
close kinshipMysticism bearing marks ofChristian
distinguishedGermanica, butwith the Theologia
the writings of thefrom it, and still more from
and Stof the CrossSpanish Mystics, St John
of its metaphysics.Theresa, by the scientific basis
world-process, asindeed, a translation of theIt is,
of ainto the termsrevealed by modern science,
this process are,theistic metaphysic. The laws of
of themodes of energyfor the author, but the
of that energy isEternal Reason ; the sole purpose
guidance ofRedemption means theredemptive ; and
orlife, by the Spiritthe whole movement of material
ultimatein it, back to theEternal Reason inherent
natural mode of theRest in Unity which is the
Spiritual.
very rare in modernThe book, then, is an attempt,
of humantheology, to establish the vital connection
of themworld-process as bothexperience and the
Reason of God.expressions of the Word or Eternal
history,made to experience andThough the appeal is
conceptions of theyet Realism is so extended into
the Hegelian identificationSpirit World as to meet
treatment is notof thought and things. But the
mystical and religious.philosophical, but