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The Christian Faith - Table of Contents the Christian Faith The Christian Faith - Table of Contents The Christian Faith By Olin Alfred Curtis Table of Contents Title Page Dedication Preface Introduction To The System Of Doctrine PART FIRST -- MAN Discussion Chapter 1 The Man and the Animal Chapter 2 Personality Chapter 3 The Moral Person Chapter 4 Freedom, Personal and Moral Chapter 5 Personal Morality Chapter 6 Religion Chapter 7 The Theistic Argument Chapter 8 Revelation PART SECOND -- THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION Chapter 9 The Christian Religion and the Moral Person Chapter 10 The Christian Religion and the Human Race Chapter 11 Christian Certainty Chapter 12 The Christian Book PART THIRD -- THE SYSTEM OF DOCTRINE Chapter 13 Systematic Theology The First Doctrinal Division Man's Need of Redemption Chapter 14 The Creation and Fall of Man Chapter 15 The Doctrine of Sin The Second Doctrinal Division Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Redeemer Chapter 16 The Deity of Our Lord Chapter 17 The Incarnation of the Son of God The Third Doctrinal Division Our Lord's Redemptive Work Chapter 18 The Holiness of God Chapter 19 The Moral Government Chapter 20 The Christian Meaning of Death Chapter 21 The Teaching of Saint Paul Chapter 22 Our Lord's Strange Hesitation in Approaching Death Chapter 23 The Racial Theory of Our Lord's Redemptive Work The Fourth Doctrinal Division Redemption Realized in the New Man Chapter 24 The Personal Dispensation of the Holy Spirit file:///H|/Temp/Olin/TCF_TOC.htm (1 of 2)1/3/2008 10:35:13 PM The Christian Faith - Table of Contents Chapter 25 The Preparation for Conversion Chapter 26 Conversion Chapter 27 Personal Holiness Chapter 28 The Christian Doctrine of the Intermediate State Chapter 29 The Resurrection of the Body The Fifth Doctrinal Division Redemption Realized in the New Race Chapter 30 The Church of Our Lord Chapter 31 The Christian Sacraments Chapter 32 The Church Militant Chapter 33 The Church Triumphant Chapter 34 Men Outside the New Race The Sixth Doctrinal Division The Triune God Revealed in Redemption Chapter 35 The Attributes of God Chapter 36 The Christian Doctrine of the Trinity file:///H|/Temp/Olin/TCF_TOC.htm (2 of 2)1/3/2008 10:35:13 PM The Christian Faith - Title Page The Christian Faith Personally Given In A System of Doctrine By Olin Alfred Curtis Professor of Systematic Theology Drew Theological Seminary ouch hoti kyrieuomen hymon tes pisteos, alla synergoi esmen tes charas hymon New York: Eaton & Mains Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham Copyright 1905 By Eaton & Mains "Velle Bene Facere" file:///H|/Temp/Olin/TCF_TP.htm1/3/2008 10:35:15 PM The Christian Faith - Dedication The Christian Faith By Olin Alfred Curtis Dedication To My Father Reuben Curtis "How oft have I, A little child, hearkened my father's voice Preaching the Word ... Again I see those circling, eager faces; I hear once more the solemn -- urging words That tell the things of God in simple phrase; Again the deep -- voiced, reverent prayer ascends, Bringing to the still summer afternoon A sense of the eternal. As he preached He lived; unselfish, famelessly heroic." file:///H|/Temp/Olin/TCF_Ded.htm1/3/2008 10:35:15 PM The Christian Faith - Preface The Christian Faith By Olin Alfred Curtis Preface Neither in claim nor in spirit is this book dogmatic. As indicated in several ways by the book itself, there is no attempt to speak the final word, no aim to be, or to become, "the recognized authority" of any church, or of any school, or of any man. After years of preparatory waiting, I have, I believe, caught an important vision of the Christian Faith as an organic whole of doctrine, and I am eager to help other men to catch the same vision. In reading the book, many peculiarities of view and method will be discovered; but the main clue to all can be found in one thing, namely, in the junction of the two ideas, personal responsibility and racial solidarity. Every man is a responsible moral person; but no man is complete in himself -- he is made to be a fragment of an entire race. Instead of being content with one of these ideas, I use them both in junction, and with equally serious emphasis. In this peculiar junction there may be, I sometimes hope, a fair mediation between Arminianism and Calvinism. From many teachers and authors I have received suggestions; but there are four names that should be amply noted in this preface; for without the influence of these four men the book, in all probability, would never have been conceived. First, Dr. Daniel Whedon. He it was, and he alone, who convinced me beyond possible doubt that the necessitarian has no case in Ethics, and almost no case in Psychology. Second, Thomas Carlyle. For as much as ten years, in my early ministry, my mind was dominated by Carlyle. And at last he compelled me to appreciate the ethical appeal of the prophets of the Old Testament; and from this appreciation the entire moral fiber of my message has surely come. Third, Professor Borden P. Bowne. As Whedon and Carlyle, together, led me to see the moral significance of personality, Bowne led me to see its cosmic significance. And this cosmic significance of personality is now basal in all my thinking. This statement, though, is not to be taken to mean that I pretend to represent Professor Bowne in definite opinion or tendency. I wish simply to pay an unstinted tribute to his influence without allying him to my theology. Fourth, Bishop Martensen. Not only did he create my confidence in Systematic Theology, also he started my present conception of the organism of Christian doctrine. Yet more ought to be said -- the courage to wait for a vision of the total faith was kept alive in me by reading Martensen's Christian Dogmatics. As to my discussions, there are, I am aware, places where the items are not fully in harmony. Sometimes this want of harmony results from my determination to preserve every mood in which the book was written. I would not cut out a passage to secure consistency, for I cared more for a full testimony than I did for a flawless argument. At other times the inconsistency is more deeply rooted, and means that I have not yet worked out all the implications of my Psychology. In a few most subtle situations I am not quite sure as to the real data, and so I waver in my estimate. Another matter -- the scheme of quotation -- requires a word of explanation. The primary purpose of this scheme is to provide an atmosphere for my discussion. But under this primary purpose a quotation is, at times, used to illustrate or confirm or enlarge a conclusion; or in justice to state an important view which is different from my own. In every instance where a quotation from a foreign language makes such a contribution as may be of large value to the reader, it has been carefully translated. In other instances, I have yielded to my own taste. Olin A. Curtis The Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, August, 1905 file:///H|/Temp/Olin/TCF_Pre.htm (1 of 2)1/3/2008 10:35:15 PM The Christian Faith - Preface file:///H|/Temp/Olin/TCF_Pre.htm (2 of 2)1/3/2008 10:35:15 PM The Christian Faith - Introduction The Christian Faith By Olin Alfred Curtis Introduction Fragment of a conversation between a professor of moral science in an American college and a student just about to gradutate from a certain theological seminary: Professor. "Are you entirely Satisfied with your course in theology?" Student. "No; the Course has been of value to me, but it has one lack." Professor. "What? I am interested." Student. "In studying the Bible and Christian doctrine no connection was anywhere made with moral science." Professor. "I am not surprised. The theologian is quite wont to forget that a sinner is a man." file:///H|/Temp/Olin/TCF_Int.htm1/3/2008 10:35:15 PM The Christian Faith - Discussion The Christian Faith By Olin Alfred Curtis PART FIRST -- MAN Discussion -- FINDING A MAN To have a note of reality in our theology, we must see what actually takes place in the life of a man. In the last century much was written about man; new search was made in psychology, in ethics, in anthropology, and especially in sociology; and some of this search resulted in positive contribution to our knowledge; but from nearly all of this scientific work we turn away in disappointment. It is not merely that the view is partial, that the selection of data is often arbitrary, that the intrinsic human elements are never all vitally combined -- the root of the failure lies deeper. These writers themselves care for science and not for living men. They have not the eye of love, and so they do not and cannot find a real man at all. It seems like "a spacious phrase," but it is the truth, that in the poetry of Robert Browning one can come closer to the whole reality of human life (than he can in any scientific treatise published in the last hundred years.... I too may fail, for the task is oftentimes baffling in the extreme; but I am eager to find a man. I want to see, and then to help you to see, a real man's real life -- not to be caught and held fast in the accidental overlay, not to be misled by the conventional estimate, not to be swept away by the scientific tendency, but to see for myself a real man's real life ..
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