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Theology from the Far End and the Near

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Frederic Gill
Frederic Gill
Affiliation:
Arlington, Mass.
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Professor James tells us that pragmatism has suddenly precipitated itself out of the air. Of absolutism the opposite is true: while not losing its definite centres of influence, it has gradually diffused itself into the air. Everywhere the tendency has been to exalt the universal and to minimize the individual; to belittle the human and to ascribe all to the divine; to emphasize the far end and to ignore the near. This absolutist atmosphere and tendency is the theme of the present article.

Type
Research Article
Information
Harvard Theological Review , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1908 , pp. 362 - 376
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1908

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