New Churches for Old (Volume 48; V. 755); A Plea for Community Religion by John Haynes Holmes
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Author: John Haynes Holmes
Page Count: 78 pages
Published Date: 08 Jan 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235181009
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NEW CHURCHES FOR OLD CHAPTER I THE COLLAPSE OF THE CHURCHES: WHAT IS THE MATTER? That there is something the matter with organized religion in this present day, and something very seriously the matter, is a fact so obvious that it is no longer challenged or contradicted. A decline in the vitality of the churches has been noted by sensitive and honest observers at intervals for nearly one hundred years. This has seldom, however, caused alarm, for the reason that social institutions of every kind are liable to fluctuations of power and influence, determined by changes in economic conditions, personal leadership, and the more or less intangible aspects of intellectual and emotional interest. There is a law of compensation in such phenomena, and what is lost, therefore, at one time is inevitably recovered at another. If the decline seems prolonged and extreme, this fact furnishes only the more reason for believing that a sharp recovery is imminent at any moment. Thus have we lived, during the last two generations at least, not only in a consciousness of the waning power of the churches, but also in an eager and ' * - * DEGREES. *, a * confident expectation of a great spiritual revival. Daring the World War this expectation reached an intensity of conviction which was not unrelated, perhaps, to the degree of our confusion at the failure of religion to prevent so incredible a recrudescence of savagery. This vast cataclysm was going to act as a kind of Day of Judgment! It would restore man to his senses, purge him of his indifference and sin, save him to his lost fidelity to the best and highest. The spiritual revival that would follow the war, would give to the churches all their former prestige, and, in addition, unprecedented opportunities of serv...
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