Theology and the Social Consciousness

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Henry Churchill King. Theology and the Social Consciousness

Theology and the Social Consciousness

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INTRODUCTION. THE THEME

THE REAL MEANING OF THE SOCIAL. CONSCIOUSNESS FOR THEOLOGY

INTRODUCTION. THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE THEOLOGIAN

CHAPTER I. THE DEFINITION OF SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS

I. THE SENSE OF THE LIKE-MINDEDNESS OF MEN[1]

II. THE SENSE OF THE MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF MEN

III. THE SENSE OF THE VALUE AND SACREDNESS OF THE PERSON

IV. THE SENSE OF OBLIGATION

V. THE SENSE OF LOVE

CHAPTER II. THE INADEQUACY OF THE ANALOGY OF THE ORGANISM. AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS[12]

I. THE VALUE OF THE ANALOGY

II. THE INEVITABLE INADEQUACY OF THE ANALOGY

III. THE ANALOGY TESTED BY THE DEFINITION. OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS

CHAPTER III. THE NECESSITY OF THE FACTS, OF WHICH THE SOCIAL. CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE REFLECTION, IF IDEAL. INTERESTS ARE TO BE SUPREME

I. THE QUESTION

II. OTHERWISE NO MORAL WORLD AT ALL

CHAPTER IV. THE ULTIMATE EXPLANATION AND GROUND OF THE. SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS

I. HOW CAN IT BE, METAPHYSICALLY, THAT WE DO. INFLUENCE ONE ANOTHER?

II. WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR THE FINAL POSITIVE JUSTIFICATION. OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS AS ETHICAL?

THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS. UPON THE CONCEPTION OF RELIGION

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER V. THE OPPOSITION OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS TO. THE FALSELY MYSTICAL

I. WHAT IS THE FALSELY MYSTICAL?

II. THE OBJECTIONS OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS. TO THE FALSELY MYSTICAL

CHAPTER VI. THE EMPHASIS OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS UPON. THE PERSONAL RELATION IN RELIGION, AND. SO UPON THE TRULY MYSTICAL

I. THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS TENDS POSITIVELY TO EMPHASIZE. THE PERSONAL RELATION IN RELIGION

II. THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS THUS KEEPS THE TRULY MYSTICAL

CHAPTER VII. THE THOROUGH ETHICIZING OF RELIGION

I. THE PRESSURE OF THE PROBLEM

II. THE STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

III. THE ANSWER

CHAPTER VIII. THE EMPHASIS OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS UPON. THE HISTORICALLY CHRISTIAN IN RELIGION

I. THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS NEEDS HISTORICAL JUSTIFICATION

II. CHRISTIANITY'S RESPONSE TO THIS NEED

THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS. UPON THEOLOGICAL DOCTRINE

CHAPTER IX. GENERAL RESULTS

I. THE CONCEPTION OF THEOLOGY IN PERSONAL TERMS

II. THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD, AS THE DETERMINING PRINCIPLE. IN THEOLOGY

III. CHRIST'S OWN SOCIAL EMPHASES

IV. THE REFLECTION IN THEOLOGY OF THE CHANGES. IN THE CONCEPTION OF RELIGION

CHAPTER X. THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEEPENING SENSE OF THE. LIKE-MINDEDNESS OF MEN UPON THEOLOGY

I. NO PRIME FAVORITES WITH GOD

II. THE GREAT UNIVERSAL QUALITIES AND INTERESTS, THE MOST VALUABLE

III. ESSENTIAL LIKENESS UNDER VERY DIVERSE FORMS

IV. AS APPLIED TO THE QUESTION OF IMMORTALITY

V. CONSEQUENT LARGER SYMPATHY WITH MEN, FAITH IN MEN, AND HOPE FOR MEN

VI. JUDGMENT ACCORDING TO LIGHT, AND THE MORAL REALITY. OF THE FUTURE LIFE

CHAPTER XI. THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEEPENING SENSE OF THE MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF MEN UPON THEOLOGY

I. THE REAL UNITY OF THE RACE

II. DEEPENING THE SENSE OF SIN

III. MUTUAL INFLUENCE FOR GOOD IN THE ATTAINMENT OF CHARACTER

IV. MUTUAL INFLUENCE FOR GOOD IN OUR PERSONAL RELATION. TO GOD

V. MUTUAL INFLUENCE FOR GOOD IN CONFESSIONS OF FAITH

VI. THE CONSEQUENT IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCTRINE. OF THE CHURCH

CHAPTER XII. THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEEPENING SENSE OF THE. VALUE AND SACREDNESS OF THE PERSON. UPON THEOLOGY

I. THE RECOGNITION OF THE PERSONAL IN MAN

II. THE RECOGNITION OF THE PERSONAL IN CHRIST

III. THE RECOGNITION OF THE PERSONAL IN GOD

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Henry Churchill King

A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.)

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1. Contributing Lines of Thought.—It is worth seeing how firmly planted the idea is. Several lines of thought have united to induce men to emphasize—perhaps even to over-emphasize—this way of thinking of society. The influence of natural science, in the first place, has been inevitably in this direction. Its root idea of the universality of law forces upon one the thought of a world which is a coherent whole, a unity with universal forces in it, in which every part is inextricably connected with every other. So, too, the acceptance of the theory of evolution has led science to regard the whole history of the physical universe as an organic growth.

Psychology, also, with its present-day emphasis, in Baldwin and Royce, upon the constant presence and fundamental character of imitation, and its insistence upon the still more fundamental impulsiveness of consciousness which Dewey believes underlies imitation,[3] is really proclaiming exactly this element of the social consciousness. And the whole assertion by the later psychology of the unity of man—mind and body, and of the complex intertwining of all the functions of the mind, is in closest harmony with a similar view of society.

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