the things wherein we differ, but our half-heartedness in the religious affirmations that we share. At the foundation of our fellowship and at the heart of the creeds lies the confession of Jesus Christ as Lord, the recognition in Him of very God. Are we prepared to accept in our lives the implications of that confession, to permit Christ to be the Lord of our appetites, the Lord of our relations with our neighbors, the Lord of our family life, of our industrial and business relations? Every man who enters into the religious meaning of the ancient creeds stands upon his feet and joins hands with the great body of Christians throughout the centuries, and says that he believes in God; that he believes in a Righteous Will working in creation; he believes in Christ, the Son of God, the very life and love of God in terms of our human life; he believes in the Spirit, God working within us to draw us to Himself; he believes in the church, the fellowship of those who draw their strength from Christ; he believes in forgiveness, the undiscouraged love of God for us which demands an undiscouraged love for one another; he believes in our victory over death and the life of ever-deepening fellowship. We appeal to our chief pastors to summon us again and again to this faith and to hold us to a strict account in our sworn loyalty to it.
(Signed) 1 HENRY Bradford Washburn,
MAX KELLNER,
SAMUEL MCCOMB,
WILLIAM H. P. HATCH,
JAMES ARTHUR MULLER,
JAMES THAYER ADDISON,
NORMAN BURDETT NASH, ANGUS DUN.
1 Edward Staples Brown, the only member of the faculty who did not
sign, was teaching in St. John's University, Shanghai, China.
Apostles' Creed, text, 17; author- ship, 17 note, 64; to be inter- preted by Nicene Creed, 367. See Creed Archaeology
vs. higher criticism,
Arnold, Matthew, 41 Articles, Thirty-nine, not the creed
of Episcopal church, 381 Atonement, statements of creeds, 20, 21, 23, 26; Bryan's discussion, 36 Augustine on science and the Bible, 276
Augustus, story of his birth, 106 Authority, necessary in science, not religion, 215; true authority of Bible, 208
Bacon, B. W., 328
Baptists, 13, 21, 411
Barnes, Canon, 256, 296 Barton, W. E., 395 Bateson, 235, 253, 280 Bergson, 247.
Bible, two views summarized, 5-8; statements of creeds, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26; Reformers and the Bible, 5; inerrancy and verbal inspira- tion, 5; Bible never equalled, 32; objector must himself be infal lible, 33; modern uncertainty, 115; infallible Bible vs. infallible church, 116; Bible claims to be authoritative, 116; church fathers so held, 117; three necessary ele- ments of a doctrine of Scripture, 122; structure, 122; supernatural revelation, 127; inspired book, 129, 153; contradictions ex- plained, 178; both views find support in Bible, 72; modernist view of inspiration, 191; modern- ist view of authority, 195, 208; Bible does not claim inerrancy, 407; Luther's free attitude, 197; not intended for oracle, 212; val- uable but not perfect, 214; not to be followed in everything be- 'cause not self-consistent, 197- 200; Clarke's change of view, 197; religious progress within
Bible, 201; mistaken ascriptions of authorship, 204; inconsisten- cies, 204; untrue statements in Bible, 205; gross ideas, 206; gains from new view, 220-3, 225- 7; Bible not an authority on science, 276, 284, 292; primitive science in Bible, 285; Bryan un- just to Bible, 286; Westminster Confession does not declare it inerrant, 407.
See Inerrancy, Inspiration, In- fallibility
Bishops' letter, 366, 383, 385, 410, 426, 440
Bishop, George H., 157 Brookes, 163, 171
Brooks, Phillips, 303, 390, 413 Buckle's application of evolution a failure, 139
Buddha, stories of his birth, 320 Burrell, D. J., 157, 177 Burroughs, John, 273
Bryan, 32, 58, 250, 263, 272, 282, 290, 363
Calvin, 53, 403 Canon, 113
Cathedral-building, a sin, 107; will not be hindered by bishop's stand for orthodoxy, 380
Catholic movement in Church of England delays reconciliation with science, 30I
Catholicism, Protestantism must not imitate, 43 Chalmers, 154, 376 Channing, 393 Cheyne, 141, 142 Chiliasm, 365_ Christ. See Jesus
Christianity, static or growing? 30, 41; affected by secular environ- ment, 296; essential character re- mains permanent, 298; Christian- ity and liberalism are different re- ligions, 361, 366
Church, modernists seek a compre- hensive, 70, ΙΟΙ; evangelical church based on a particular message, 362; inclusiveness justi- fied by Acts 15, 395; inclusive or exclusive? 395, 396
Church of England, 54, 301, 412 Clark, Bishop, 413 Clarke, W. N., 189, 197 Clay, 143
Con,1. S., 395
Conklin, E. G., 263
Conservatism,
fundamentalism, Orthodoxy Controversy, possible good results, 100; delays work of church, 103; causes anxiety among simple Christians, 103; distracts attention from social tasks, 106-9 Copernicus, 3, 5, 260, 270, 285 Crapsey, A. S., 105
Creed, Apostles', 11, 17, 64; Ni-
cene, 11, 17; of Baptist Bible Union, 21; of a college, 25; Kansas City creed, 26; what bond instead of common creed? 353; creeds state facts, not explana- tions, 367; Apostles' Creed to be interpreted by Nicene, 367; clergy may not deny items creed, 368, 383; permissive use proposed, 445; a disturbing pro- posal, 389; earlier creed cannot interpret later, 413; value
literal belief admitted, 440; con- sistent enforcement of standard of belief and worship undesirable, 442; church made and may mod- ify creeds, 444
Criticism, literary, of the Bible, now current is largely mistaken, 118; deprives Bible of most of its value, 119; fallacies listed, 131-52; definition of "higher criticism," 131; its "assured re- sults," 133-6; disregards testi- mony of archaeology, 142; pro- found effects admitted by a lib- eral, 208
D, supposed Old Testament writer, 133
Darwin, 3, 36, 234, 250-61, 265, 272, 283, 290. See Darwinism, Evolution
Darwinism, modified, 234; natural selection, 251; sexual selection, 251; a guess, 251; not supported by Bible, 252; Bateson's admis- sion, 253, 280; Darwinism deals in absurdities, 253; destroys faith in Bible, 255; led Darwin to agnosticism, 257; another ex- planation of this, 290; Darwinism and Biblical criticism, 138. See Darwin, Evolution
David as psalm-writer, 135, 145-8,
Dawson, Sir William, 239 Denomination, what right has one to exist? 47
Descent of man. See Darwin, Dar- winism, Evolution
Deuteronomy, written by Moses?
133, 149
De Vries, 266 De Witt, 159
Dickinson, Jonathan, 401
Discrepancies in Bible explained, 178; trifling discrepancies do not destroy reliability, 187
Doctrines of New Testament valid. for all time, 31
Documentary hypothesis, 132 Drake, Durant, 203, 344 Driver, 137, 145, 203 Drummond, 239, 290 Du Bose, 389
E, supposed Old Testament writer, 133
Eddy, Sherwood, 292 Eichhorn, 132
Emmett, C. W., 54
Episcopal Church, 11, 13, 105, 366, 379, 410, 426, 439
Episcopal Theological School, 432,
439 Erasmus, 41 Etheridge, 233
Evolution, statements of creeds, 22, 256; two views summarized, 8; effect on theology, 3; as applied to literature and religion a fal- lacy, 137; Need of careful defini- tion, 232; no change of species proved, 233, 252; false uses of term "evolution," 234; evolution and atheistic philosophy, 237; op- posed by scientists, 239; theistic Genesis evolution, 239; agrees with science 242ff; evolution cannot explain mind, language, conscience, 245; the ape theory, 246; evolution by leaps, 247; evolution leads to loss of faith, 255-9; puts God far away, 256; let unbelieving evolutionists maintain their own schools, 260; all nat- uralists believe in evolution, 273; Bible does not teach science, 276, 284; origin of species solved, 277; Bateson's words an admission of failure? 235, 253, 280; evolution does not degrade man, 287; does not necessarily involve material- ism, 288; does not put God far away, 289; McCosh combined evo- lution and religion, 274; Kingsley, 274; Drummond,
290 Ezra. See Law-code
Faith as adventure, 94; as per- sonal conviction, 95; distinguished from forms of expression, 367
Galileo, 260, 270, 285 Gaussen, 167
God, controversy issues from differ- ing views of, 67-82, due to dif- ferent underlying imagery, 71; fundamentalism thinks in terms of monarchy, 76, modernism cannot do so, 79; evolution puts God far away, 256; this denied, 289; God as mind and heart of universe rather than judge, 97; belief in God among educated, 258
Gordon, A. J., 162, 170
Gordon, George A., 308, 330, 345 Gospels, probably not by supposed authors, 204 Grant, 411
Gray, James M., 153, 311
Green, 136
Haeckel, 239, 243
Hammurabi,
Harkness, 373,
Heaton, Lee W., 424, 433
Henslow, 234
Hexateuch, 133, 134. See Penta-
Hillis, N. D., 290
Historical method, meaning and ef- fects, 3
Hodge, 154, 178, 371
Honesty of modernists, 361, 362,
363, 368, 393, 410, 421, 427, 429
Howland, M. S., 30
Hume, David, 307 Huxley, 232, 236, 275
Hymns a uniting force because not theological, 99
Inerrancy of Bible asserted, 21, 25, 187; defined, 187; not serted in Bible or Westminster Confession, 407. See Bible, In- fallibility, Inspiration Infallibility of Bible
church, 116; infallible authority in Prot- estanism illogical, 214. See In- errancy, Inspiration, Bible Ingersoll, modern view of Bible makes his attack obsolete, 6 Inscription over cross, four forms, 180 Inspiration of Bible, 129, 153; Bible's test of, 130; Gray's defi nition, 154-8; extends to words, 158; proof of inspiration, 162; objections answered, 177; Bible claims 170; verbal inspiration, verbal inspiration not necessary, 209; claimed only for original record, 156. See Bible, Infal- libility, Inerrancy Interpretation,
must not become denial, 361, 386; non-literal in- terpretation of part of creed al- ready permitted, 417, 442; new interpretations become permissible by precedent, 429; what liberals mean by "interpretation," 445 Intolerance, 362, 363
J, supposed Old Testament writer,
Jefferson, C. E., 209, 210 Jesus, creed declares Him to be
God, 369, 382; fundamentalism approaches Him by dogmatic route, modernism as fact in his- tory, 82; modernism would loos- en fact from interpretation, 84; modern discovery of historical Jesus a gain, 86; God, not Christ, is problem, Christ explains God, 89; religion of Jesus vs. religion about Jesus, 4, 94; we must fol- low Jesus rather than Paul, 90; Fosdick on deity of Christ, 349; His religion a way of life, not a philosophy, 95; cites Jonah, 211; uses Old Testament as inspired, 130
Johnson, Franklin, 131, 179
Jonah, did Jesus cite as history?
Jordan, 138, 143 Jot or tittle, 175
Keim's theory of resurrection, 341 Kelvin, 240, 265
Kent, C. F., 113, 144
King of the Jews, four forms of inscription, 180
Kingsley, Charles, 274 Kuenen, 134
Lake, Kirsopp, 13, 346 La Place, 73
Law-code of Old Testament, criti- cal theory, 134; post-exilian origin impossible, 125, 150
Lawrence, Bishop, 421, 424, 433 Laws of nature and miracle-stories, 3, 307, 308
Leuba's questionnaire, 258 Levites, 125, 126
Liberals, many moderate ones not modernists, I
Literalists, real issue is between them and liberals, 102 Lodge, Sir Oliver, 240, 244 Luther, 53, 197, 270, 285 Lyell, Sir Charles, 269, 275
Macalister's excavations, 144 Macartney, C. E., 29, 187 Macaulay, 136
MacCallum, J. A., 29
Machen, 361, 362
Manning, Bishop, 106, 353, 379
Mary. See Virgin birth
Maurice, F. D., 274, 412
McComb, Samuel, 30
McCosh, 239, 274
McGiffert, A. C., 208 McKim, 412
Mendel, 278
Merrill, W. P., 43, 59, 397
Mill, J. S., urged liberals to remain in church, 430
Millennium, 1; both views in Bible, 198
Miller, Dickinson S., 426 Millikan, R. A., 294
Miracles, Protestant may believe in,
but must not make a test, 51; prejudice against them a fallacy, 140, 387, 389; miracles could prove nothing, 213; Hume miracles, 307; Rashdall's similar view, 308; not essential to Chris- tianity, 308
Miracles of Christ, statements of creeds, 21; logically second of "five points," 39 miracle-stories, true or not, indicate impression made by Jesus, 308 Modern Churchmen's Union, 55,
Parks, Leighton, 106, 410, 422 Pastoral Letter, 366, 383, 385, 410, 426, 440 Patton, 153
Paul, 6, 64, 120, 325, 337; we must follow Jesus rather than Paul, 90; his religion different from that of Jesus, 90
Pearson, Bishop, 315
Pentateuch, 133; analysis a fallacy, 136; written long after Moses, 204; Colenso, 412
Postmillennialism and social better- ment, 2
Potter, Bishop, 384
Prayer-book, literary criticism can- not analyze, 136
Premillennarians, term defined, 1; not all fundamentalists are pre- millennarians, 1; premillennialism and social betterment, 2; Prince- ton Seminary professor thinks it not a deadly error, 365; present issue not over premillennialism, 366 Presbyterians, 11, 13, 18, 21, 32, 187, 365, 369, 397, 411; Pres- byterian church based on com- promise, 400; relation of church to Westminster Confession, 369- 79, 401, 406; early testimony to its catholicity, 402; affirmation on unity and liberty, 404; five points of doctrine, 21; formation of Presbyterian Church in U.S.A., 406; reunion of two parts, and with Cumberland Church, 406; doctrinal declara- tions of General Assembly not binding, 407; Assembly hasty in condemning Fosdick, 408; affir-
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