The Seeming Unreality of the Spiritual Life - Henry Churc...
The NATHANIEL WILLIAM TAYLOR LECTURES
FOR 1907
GIVEN BEFORE THE DIVINITY SCHOOL OF YALE UNIVERSITY
BY
HENRY CHURCHILL KING
PRESIDENT OF OBERLIN COLLEGE
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1908
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Set up and electrotyped. Printed September, 1908
THE MASON-HENRY PRESS SYRACUSE, N. Y.
INTRODUCTION
I. The Fundamental Nature of the Inquiry
II. The Meaning of the Theme
III. The Order of the Discussion
PART I
THE CAUSES OF THE SEEMING UNREALITY
MISCONCEPTIONS
FAILURE TO FULFIL CONDITIONS
XVIII. The Way into the Great Values
XIX. The Conditions of a Deepening Personal Relation
THE INEVITABLE LIMITATIONS AND FLUCTUATIONS OF OUR NATURES
XX. Limitations and Fluctuations Common to All our Life
XXI. The Special Bearing of Limitations and Fluctuations on the Spiritual Life
XXII. The Witness of our Consciously Best Hours
A PURPOSED SEEMING UNREALITY OF THE SPIRITUAL
XXIII. The Seeming Unreality a Large Factor in our Moral and Spiritual
Training
XXIV. The Special Religious Need of the Unobtrusiveness of the Spiritual
XXV. Our Very Questionings a Proof of Reality
PART II
THE WAY INTO REALITY
THE PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE
XXVI. The Test of Present Trends of Thought-Historical, Philosophical,
Scientific, Ethical, and Social
XXVII. The Test of Present Trends of Thought-Psychological
XXVIII. Man's Essential Need of Religion
AS TO THE THEISTIC ARGUMENT
XXIX. Facing the Facts often Ignored
XXX. The Necessary Limitations in the Argument
XXXI. The Main Lines of Argument
AS TO THE PERSONAL RELATION TO GOD
XXXII. The Need of the Modern Man met only in Christ
XXXIII. The Needed Emphases in Modern Religious Life
XXXIV. The Method of the Spiritual Life
AS TO THE PARTICULAR CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES
XXXV. Doctrine as Expression of Experience with Christ
XXXVI. Illustrated in the Doctrine of Personal Immortality