After Dogmatic Theology, What?

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Excerpt from After Dogmatic Theology, What?: Materialism, or a Spiritual Philosophy and Natural Religion "The monstrous blasphemy of creeds Which represent an angry God, Who tempts man sorely through his needs, And meets his feelings with a rod - Eternal wrath, through blood appeased, The curse of God, salvation's plan, Are nightmare visions, which have seized The stumbling consciousness of man. The pure fresh impulse of to-day, Which thrills within the human heart, As time-worn errors pass away, Fresh life and vigor shall impart." - Lizzie Doten. The power and sway of dogmatic theology are on the decline. Its assumptions, that creeds and books are authority, more sacred than the truths of the soul and of Nature, that belief in dogmas is the only means of salvation, and that there can be no religious life outside its narrow limits, are to die as the soul asserts itself, and as rational knowledge increases. By slow but sure degrees it fails and weakens. It grows spasmodic in action, rushes into "revivals of religion, " goes into a chill after the revival fever is over, halts in doubt yet weakens continually. Men and women hunger for some bread of life it cannot give, crushed and darkened minds seek liberty and light, the thoughts of men grow and broaden beyond dogmas, Pagan or Christian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.