Theism and the Christian Faith: Lectures Delivered in the Harvard Divinity School (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Theism and the Christian Faith: Lectures Delivered in the Harvard Divinity School As professor Of systematic theology in the Divinity School Of Harvard University, Dr. Everett gave regularly, each year, three courses Of lectures which constituted together a unified body of theological instruction. In the first Of these courses, he dealt with the psychological roots Of religion which he found in the feelings appropriate to the three ideas of the r'eason, - truth, goodness and beauty. In the second course, on historical re ligions, his purpose was to present various systems as typical manifestations, first, of the religion of the understanding, Con fucianism, and second, Of religions in which one or another Of the three ideas was particularly emphasized: truth, in the religions of India, especially in the Vedanta and Sankhya systems of phi losophy; goodness, in Mazdeism; beauty in the religion of Greece. In the third course Dr. Everett first unfolded the philosophical implications Of the three ideas in a doctrine Of God as Absolute Spirit, in whom they have full realization, and then considered in the light Of them the fundamental problems of theology, and' presented Christianity as the Absolute Religion because compre hending in harmonious perfection all three ideas of the reason. Of these courses, the first has already been published (the Psycho logical Elements of Religious Faith, edited by Edward Hale, Macmillan co. And was so well received that the Com mittee of the Divinity Faculty having its publication in charge felt warranted in proceeding to issue the third course, especially as the Rev. Edward Hale, who had edited so admirably the pre vious volume, was willing to undertake the much severer task of preparing this course also for publication. The difficulties of the work were enormous: Dr. Everett left no manuscripts Of his lectures, and the editor's sole reliance had to be upon students' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.