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THE NEW THEOLOGY (Continued from page 408)
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simply an awakening to what he really is.” Yet Jesus said: “ Ye must be born again.” Writing in the American Journal of Theology, Dr. McGiffert said further: I ^ ^ ^ e, J ea^ ed.*not ,think o f the Bible as the final SMB o W M I authority, and have come to see that there is no an? that„ T ? need none- The result has been AMBBSmS ° f simply untold consequence. The conservatives who feared and opposed Biblical criticism in its early days because they saw what a revolution it portended, were far more c lM f-s is h W than most o f the liberals who thought that it meant simply a shifting of position. The chasm Is deep. What is before us no one knows.” One of the most radical among the Baptists was Pro fessor George Burman Foster of University of Chicago. In his book, “ A Guide to the Study of the Christian Religion,” he says, page 736: °£ what 9 have 3ust been urging amounts to the 1 thonght known to history. One may t o ft not supernatural regeneration, but natural grow th; f o t divine sanctification, but human education; not super- of, but natural m orality; not divine expiation of the cross, but the human heroism— or accident of the cross; • ; - not Christ the Lord, but the man Jesus who was a child of his time; not God and his providence, but evolution and its ?h?<=Ceu ft ? rlti OUt. an absolute^goal— that all this, and such as chick1" the neW turn ln tlle ‘affan’S of religion at the tick o f the In the Methodist Church we have many liberals and they are doing untold damage to the Methodist faith. Our Theological Seminaries are hot-beds of heresy. It is a well known fact that Bishop Pierce of the M. E. Church, South, was strongly opposed to theological schools. Writing to Bishop McTyeire he said: fTnWlBn .y ^ a o iia r invested in a theological school w ill be a damage to Methodism. Had I a m illion I T a d vise01 glV6 a dime for suoh an object. That is plain. So oonsoientiously help forw ard the work o f providing a theological school, and therefore I feel obliged to hinder it Ig9§ cfn fairly- I am against it—head and heart, tongue and pen— now and forever, one and indivisible.’ I pray most s h a d o of oblivion! ological scheme may so down to the ¡ ■ B i B Í S ? hu,U;k Ponder this remark— our greatest preach- ers, intellectually considered, are not our most useful men We are beginning I fear, to deify talent, and talk too much about the age and ‘progress,’ and the demands of the times for the simplicity of our faith, or the safety o f the Church Not by m ight or power, but b y my Spirit, saith the Lord.” . One of the chief centers of Methodist “ new theology” is Garrett Biblical Institute. This school stands as notor iously liberal. A minister who studied there tells of what is taught in Christian Doctrine. He says: "But the rankest o f all was what w e received from a pro- fessor in Christian Doctrine. This man told us that doctrine was always changing, therefore we could not accept the find- BHa o f Paul or any other such authority. He also stated that since revelation is progressive, we must, o f necessity know more than even Christ himself. This man attempted to knock the very bottom put o f the atonement, entirely repudiating the accepted orthodox views. He said that the requirement of blood fo r any m an s sin was heathenish, brutal and unlike God. He stated that Christ was put to death by a handful of men who murdered him as they would any other. Paul, he held w as steeped in the heathen practices o f his day which deJ Ike shedding of blood for the remission of sin, such as Mithraism, etc. And when we quoted such passages as “He bore our sins in his own body,” "H aving made peace by the blood o f his cross” and “ the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son. cleanseth from ali sin, ’ he called these into question by ask ing who wrote themi, when and why, and discounted them be- catise o f the men who w rote them and the times in which they iyea- . He held that we were not saved by the death but by the h ie of Christ, and that the cross was only ‘in the heart of God, being his yearning for the salvation of mankind. This professor said he would not accept anything that would not at hi®, reason, otherw ise it would be drifting into Roman Catholicism, which accepted unreasonable beliefs without any questmn. He stated that the difference between those who held to the old views of inspiration of the Bible and the Catho lics was that the form er had a paper pope, which was supposed to be as infallible as the pope o f Rome. So rank were the views of this man at times that I have seen nearly the whole class go to his desk and protest at the close o f a session And in reference to prayer, one of the professors held that prayer was merely subjective. God’s plan could not be changed by our little wants or frail judgments. All that prayer did was to place one in a better frame of mind toward the w ill o f God.” Another student takes copious notes of things taught in the class room and reports as follows: (Continued on next page)
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