The Holy Christian Church

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Excerpt from The Holy Christian Church: From Its Remote Origins, to the Present Day The second of these general tendencies is that found among more re¿ective and more courageous minds, and here are in fact the readers that this book has in view. They are individuals of all sects and creeds, and of all degrees of education, who feel working within them the fundamental thought of our age, the evo lutionary idea, the perception that the Cosmos is not static but ¿uid, and who attempt to bring this thought into accord with their religious ideas. The struggle takes on diverse shapes. It reformulates the Old formulas under a more or less Darwinian guise. It screens ugly chasms of Hebraic deism with the ¿owers of opportunistic allegory. It timidly seeks enlighten ment, dubiously delves into history, persuades itself into scientific attitudes and certainties, forgetting that in pure science thousands of exploded fallacies form the base of the insecure knowledge of today. It cloaks religion with morality, and dogma with eth ics, or it affects historical scepticism as the founda tion of a neo-christian rationalism, and generally shows the confusion that might be expected of intelli gent beings who are conscientiously attempting to reconcile two such profoundly different things as the thought of the centuries that witnessed the forma tion of Christianity and that of the present age. 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.