Word: christianizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Neville Figgis, Litt.D., of Mirfield, England, delivered the last of his series of lectures under the William Belden Noble Foundation, on "Civilization at the Cross-Roads," last evening. His subject was "The Christian Fact...
...field, England, Honorary Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, will deliver the last of his series of lectures under the William Belden Noble Foundation, on "Civilization at the Cross Roads," in Fogg Lecture Room this evening at 8 o' clock. The title of the lecture is "The Christian Fact." The lecture is open to members of the University only...
...WILLIAM BELDEN NOBLE LECTURES. "Civilization at the Cross-Roads. IV. The Christian Fact." Rev. J. Neville Figgis. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
There are two tempers of mind found both in the Christian and the non-Christian faiths, the world-accepting and the world-renouncing tempers. The believer who accepts the world as a revelation of God and who finds in every human act and relation a deep meaning, believes in a better world because of the very incompleteness of this world. The nonbeliever looks forward to death because it closes all, and the believer because it does not. In the world-accepting view the believer tries to find God's will for man and following it he finds that...
...issue between the Christian and the non-believer in the supernatural is clearly drawn. There is irreconcilable conflict between scientific fatalism and the postulates of the Christian faith. The world is a different place according as it is viewed from a Christian or a non-Christian standpoint, and no amount of mutual sympathy can bring these views together. The Christian believes that our acts are not all determined by natural physical forces. We are more than parts of nature,--we are something beyond it. In spite of the materialistic tendency of the modern world, the great mass of people leans...