Old Truths in Modern Lights the Boyle Lectures for 1890 With Other Sermons
Old Truths in Modern Lights the Boyle Lectures for 1890 With Other Sermons
T G Thomas George Bonney
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, especially chap. Iv. OF SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY, 57 natural growth alone. Its origin is inexplicable as an evolutionary process. It stands to earlier creeds, even Judaism itself, in a relation resembling that of life to the physical forces in this world's order. It co- operates with, in a sense it absorbs them ; yet it is not identical with them. Between the history of Christian and scientific progress there is little in common. In the latter, though advance may be slow, backsliding is rare. Err...or, once pierced by the spear of truth, is abandoned to the fostering care of the crotchet-monger and the puzzle-head. But Christianity, like Judaism formerly, has to wage a struggle for existence. It seems hardly possible to keep it in its original purity. Dare we say that, even in this nineteenth century, no trace of fetish -worship lingers, no taint of polytheism still infects ? Might not Christian Churches even now move St. Paul, could he return to earth, to that plain- ness of speech which he used to his Galatian converts ?
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