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قراءة كتاب Is Life Worth Living?
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اللغة: English
الصفحة رقم: 10
tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">CHAPTER XI.
THE HUMAN RACE AND REVELATION.
| Should the intellect of the world return to theism, will it ever again acknowledge a special revelation? | 264 |
| We can see that this is an urgent question | 265 |
| By many general considerations | 265 |
| Especially the career of Protestantism | 267 |
| Which is visibly evaporating into a mere natural theism | 268 |
| And, as such, is losing all restraining power in the world | 271 |
| Where then shall we look for a revelation? Not in any of the Eastern creeds | 275 |
| The claims of the Roman Church are the only ones worth considering | 276 |
| Her position is absolutely distinct from that of Protestantism, and she is not involved in its fall | 277 |
| In theory she is all that the enlightened world could require | 279 |
| The only question is, is she so in practice? This brings us to difficulties | 282 |
| 1st. The partial success of her revelation; and her supposed condemnation of the virtues of unbelievers. But her partial success is simply the old mystery of evil | 282 |
| And through her infinite charity, she does nothing to increase that difficulty | 283 |
| The value of orthodoxy is analogous to the value of true physical science | 285 |
| All should try to learn the truth who can; but we do not condemn others who cannot | 286 |
| Even amongst Catholics generally no recondite theological knowledge is required | 287 |
| The facts of the Catholic religion are simple. Theology is the complex scientific explanation of them | 288 |
| Catholicism is misunderstood because the outside world confuses with its religion—1st. The complex explanations of it | 289 |
| 2nd. Matters of discipline, and practical rules | 290 |
| 3rd. The pious opinions, or the scientific errors of private persons, or particular epochs | 291 |
| None of which really are any integral part of the Church | 293 |
| Neither are the peculiar exaggerations of moral feeling that have been prevalent at different times | 293 |
| The Church theoretically is a living, growing, self-adapting organism | 295 |
| She is, in fact, the growing, moral sense of mankind organised and developed under a supernatural tutelage | 295 |