Article February 3, 1912 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Theodore N. Morrison, W. H. Fitchett, E. M. B.

[Living Church.]

It is certainly true to say that our Lord came to reveal God; that his action in and on the world is rightly called revelation. But it is equally true that this revelation, the setting free in human life of the divine Spirit to a degree and in a manner before unparalleled, needed, in order that it might become the practical way of life (that is, of thinking, willing, loving) which he designed, to be correlated, coordinated with man's intellectual, emotional, and social past. The revelation of God and the way of life through the world to him, needed to be stated, not only as Jesus himself stated it, in terms peculiarly adapted to his own time, but in terms of the intellectual, emotional, social life of the Gentile peoples who so speedily appropriated the Christian revelation.

The task of theology, therefore, has been a necessary task—the embodying of revelation, of religion, in practical, workable terms of the thought, feeling, and social life of the actual age. The task of theology is never complete, and in ages of change or revolution it presses hard upon the church. It presses insistently in our own day, when, through the actual discoveries of physical science and the almost demonstrable hypothesis of evolution, a real body of knowledge has been contributed that profoundly modifies many of our intellectual notions.

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