The Decay of Modern Preaching : An Essay
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We may indeed go further, and say that even attacks on this extreme Calvinism are now out of date, and that most people regard it as a waste of energy to combat a doctrine so little in sympathy with the temper of modern society and the belief of most Christians.
§ 36. All these special severities of doc- io6 ON PREACHING, [sect, xxxvi.
trine seem to be derived from the same fountain-head, and the drifting of modern society away from them to be accounted for in Hke manner. This is so important a...nd fundamental a matter in explaining the varieties of orthodoxy that we must dis- cuss it with some detail.
The doctrines of the eternity and in- finite severity of punishment reserved for those who fail by a hair's- breadth to attain the felicities of Heaven ; the doctrine of the selection from all the inhabitants of the world by a perfectly arbitrary act of a small number for these felicities, and the exclusion of the rest — all such doctrines are necessarily based on the conception of the Deity as an absolutely despotic Ruler, whose powers and rights over his subjects have no limits.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
We may indeed go further, and say that even attacks on this extreme Calvinism are now out of date, and that most people regard it as a waste of energy to combat a doctrine so little in sympathy with the temper of modern society and the belief of most Christians.
§ 36. All these special severities of doc- io6 ON PREACHING, [sect, xxxvi.
trine seem to be derived from the same fountain-head, and the drifting of modern society away from them to be accounted for in Hke manner. This is so important a...nd fundamental a matter in explaining the varieties of orthodoxy that we must dis- cuss it with some detail.
The doctrines of the eternity and in- finite severity of punishment reserved for those who fail by a hair's- breadth to attain the felicities of Heaven ; the doctrine of the selection from all the inhabitants of the world by a perfectly arbitrary act of a small number for these felicities, and the exclusion of the rest — all such doctrines are necessarily based on the conception of the Deity as an absolutely despotic Ruler, whose powers and rights over his subjects have no limits.
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