The following extracts are from newspapers of recent dates:
"At a convention of theological professors held in New York City the National Academy of Theology was founded. The object of the academy is the prosecution of theology as a science on the basis of the following principles:
1. The recognition of the Bible as a body of writings prepared by men under the supernatural influence of the holy spirit, wholly unique, so that those records are the final rule of doctrine and practice.
2. The recognition of personal relationship to Christ through repentance and faith, and of dependence upon the holy spirit as the divine, and, therefore, scientific, conditions for the right interpretation of the Word.
3. The recognition of philological and historical laws as the sole human methods for discovering the facts of the Word, from which facts alone the inductions and deductions are to be made. All methods inconsistent with these are to be rejected as unscientific."
