There are, we must admit, certain facts which seem to demand, if not a new theology, at least a new statement of the propositions of theology. Among these facts are the following: the necessity of choosing now a theology, not for a single nation but for all the nations of the earth; the progress that has been 'made in the study of comparative religion; the revision of the Scriptures; the demand for the application of the scientific method to all questions, even the most sacred; the triumphs of Christian scholarship in the study of miracles; the necessity of making theology a balance system; the diminishing of strife among the different branches of the church; the fact that Christian faith and practice have not yet been brought into complete harmony with the principles of Christianity as set forth in the gospel, and that Christianity itself therefore needs Christianizing.—
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From the April 1884 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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