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...Suggestions Toward a Modern Christian Theism...
...separate lectures are "Man's Experience of God", April 23: "The Christian Experience of God", April 27; "The Idea of God in Christian Theology", April 30; "The Changing Background of Religious Thought", May 4; "A Transcendent God and an Evolving World", May 7; and "Suggestions toward a Modern Christian Theism...
...godliness" tantamount to a Christian mode of life? If so, then whose interpretation of Christianity? How can that "godliness" include the Buddhist, the Jew, or the Confucianist within our gates. Frankly, are these groups "godless"? And again, if "godliness" demands subscription to a trinitarian theism, all monotheists must be "godless". Pantheists of any sort, by such a criterion, are hopelessly "godless...
...religious or not; whether he believes in the divinity or humanity of that man whose birth is celebrated, he should be wise enough to recognize the splendor of a belief which through twenty centuries of civilization has influenced uncounted millions. No one can totally bar faith and theism from his life without suffering somewhat. Unless we recognize Christmas in its greater significance, we have failed to grasp the sprit of the time...
Professor Bowne graduated from New York University in 1871, and has received the degrees of A.M. and LL.D. from Ohio Wesleyan University. Since 1876 he has been professor of philosophy in Boston University. He is the author of "The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer," "Studies in Theism," "the Theory of Thought and Knowledge," "The Christian Life," "The Christian Revelation," and several other books on philosophical subjects...