The Responsibility of the Church in Our New Age
| Autor: | J. Gresham Machen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1933 |
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| Zdroj: | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 165:38-47 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3349 0002-7162 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/000271623316500107 |
| Popis: | The former question is being answered in a number of different ways; differences of opinion prevail, in particular, with regard to the exact degree of newness to which the new age may justifiably lay claim. There are those who think that the new age is so very new that nothing that approved itself to past ages can conceivably be valid now. There are others, however, who think that human nature remains essentially the same and that two and two still make four. With this latter point of view I am on the whole inclined to agree. In particular, I hold that facts have a most unprogressive habit of staying put, and that if a thing really happened in the first century of our era, the acquisition of new knowledge and the improvement of scientific method can never make it into a thing that did not happen. Such convictions do not blind me to the fact that we have witnessed astonishing changes in our day. Indeed, the changes have become so rapid as to cause many people to lose not only their breath but also, I fear, their head. They have led many people to think not only that nothing that is old ought by any possibility to remain in the new age, but also that whatever the new age favors is always really new. |
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