Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trying to put religion on the map of intelligible subjects, so that every man can study it and the other sciences without offending either," said the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant'83 speaking on "Religion's Opportunity Today" at the Union yesterday afternoon. "Have the Companionship of Jesus, have the companionship of every lofty soul, but don't rule out learning...
...Grant was very vehement in striking at his conservative opponents. "In the sixteen hundreds," he said, "religious questions were political questions, and an atheist or a Baptist was an anarchist. We are returning to such a condition, and can seen in religious bigotry, and ignorance, and persecution, a political threat. The basis of all this conservative certitude and attack upon progressiveness is to be favored in the miraculous character of the religious they profess and the sense of providential care and direction under which they flourish. If Jesus is to return in clouds of glory and snatch up Brother Stratton...
Turning to his discussion of religion itself Dr. Grant said, "Jesus's definition of religion is 'doing the will of God.' But our trouble today is knowing the will of God. When the ten commandments were regarded as the whole of God's law, it was easy to know God's will. Jesus made love an interpreter of God's will which immediately produced an infinite number of commandments in place of ten commandments. yet love alone is not enough to teach God's will. We must and add knowledge to love...
When the Reverend Dr. Percy Stickney Grant speaks this afternoon at the Phillips Brooks House, members of the University will have an opportunity to hear a man who is not only an outstanding figure in his profession, but who is one of the leaders of the controversy which has been holding the attention of almost every one for the last twelve months. It was Dr. Grant who, in a sermon to his New York congregation slightly over a year ago, started the battle-royal between the Modernists and the Fundamentalists which has flamed intermittently ever since from Maine to Texas...
...present instance, in spite of being occasion-ally disturbing to those of orthodox convictions, they are most significant in demonstrating that religion is not at all, as has sometimes been feared, a dead issue. That this will be even more apparent this afternoon is assured by Dr. Grant's long established reputation as a speaker of unusual eloquence and force...