The Evolution of Christianity: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Religion) (Cambridge Library Collection - Science and Religion) - Softcover

Abbott, Lyman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108000193 ISBN 13: 9781108000192

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Lyman Abbott was an American liberal theologian and a confidant of Theodore Roosevelt. He was a moderate man who sought to re-establish Christian faith among the American people in a period of change. This book, first published in 1893, argued that spiritual experience is always new and therefore every age requires a new expression for it. A believer in the possibility of harmonious coexistence between the Church and evolutionary theory, Abbott proposed a 'more intelligible and credible' religion that endeavoured to sustain faith by expressing it in contemporary terms. He maintained that science and faith were compatible and that both natural and spiritual elements belonged to a shared kingdom governed by the law of progress. Blending faith in historical Christianity with belief in progress and evolutionary theory, Abbott aimed to provide a bridge between religious life and late nineteenth-century philosophical thought.

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Paperback. Pub Date: 07 2009 Pages: 272 Publisher: Camidge. University Press Lyman Abbott was an American liberal theologian and a CONFIDANT. of Theodore Roosevelt. He was a moderate man who sought to re-establish Christian faith among the American people in a period of change. This book. first published in 1893. argued that spiritual experience is always new and therefore every age requires a new expression for it. A believer in the possibility of harmonious coexistence between the Church and evolutionary theory. Abbott proposed a 'more intelligible and credible 'religion that endeavoured to sustain faith by expressing it in contemporary terms. He maintained that science and faith were compatible and that both natural and spiritual elements belonged to a shared kingdom governed by the law of progress. Blending faith in historical Christianity with belief in progress and evo...

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The American Christian evolutionist Lyman Abbott held that science and faith were compatible, but that religious expression as well as science should follow the laws of progress. In this 1893 book, he argued for a 'more intelligible and credible' religion that would provide a spirituality for the contemporary world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108000193
• ISBN 13: 9781108000192
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272