The progressiveness of modern Christian thought

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...of the nature of the Christ in statu humiliationis. The Christian theology of to-day, with its theism in which the reality of personality alike on the divine and the human side is recognised, stumbles not at the miracles of Jesus, those natural and necessary fruits of the incarnation of One who was truly Son of God, but holds that without them the records of such a Person should exhibit an "inexplicable chasm and inconsistency." Now, as never before, theology, grown more spiritual, feels that the unexplained miracle--the miracle of miracles--is the Person of Jesus Christ, beside Whose unparalleled personality the marvels of sense--those merely transient, emblematic, subordinate affairs which men call "miracles," but which in His case present phenomena so appropriate to His Person--are easy of explanation and acceptance. Signacular and subordinate though they be, theology holds them not of light account to-day, for it is not forgetful that they stand, as Christian thought should always have made them stand, related to the living reason with which law is vitalised, and that they have given to the generations lessons in judgment and mercy, the law, in fact, of Christian beneficence, and unmeasured inspiration to practical Christian charity. The names of Rothe, Dorner, Harris, and G. P. Fisher may suffice as instances from among many Christian theologians whose handling of miracles reveals the wise but signal advances in the theological treatment of this subject. There has been a like advance in modern theology in respect of the evidence of Prophecy as an argument of independent value, the old presentation no longer having relevancy to the mind of the age. A truer setting has been found for miracle, and for that of which it is the true corre...