NORTH AMERICAN AMERICAN REVIEW No. DCXLVII. OCTOBER, 1909. CHRIST IN MODERN THOUGHT. BY THE REV. PHILIP S. MOXOM. IN undertaking to discuss this subject within reasonable limits, one is confronted by several very considerable difficulties. The first is the difficulty of delimiting the territory over which the discussion properly may range. Modern thought suggests a very large field. It comprises Literary, Scientific, Philosophical and Ethical as well as Theological thought. If it be claimed that the implications of the theme naturally confine the discussion to the field of distinctively theological thought, it still must be said that the limitation is not precise, since in our day thought on the central elements and main questions of Christianity has diffused itself over the fields of literature and science and philosophy and ethics to such an extent that one who restricts his view to the precincts of technical theology will comprehend but a fraction of the field in which the person of Christ is a prominent if not always the pre-eminent subject of consideration. The scientific mind of our time, to some extent at least, is seeking to interpret Christ in the terms of evolution. The literary mind is more and more distinctly drawing the person and teachings of Christ within the sphere of literary expression and interpretation. A score of recent works of fiction might be named in a few minutes in which Christ more or less explicitly appears as the source of the VOL. CXC.-No. 647. 28 Copyright, 1909, by THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY All Rights Reserved |
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