[Every student of present day Christianity will be impressed with the inadequacy of Christian Doctrine as an Apolygetic. And an important section of it such as Christology offers such confusion and conflict in the various views that one has to do much clearing away of brush before one gets a clear path through and even then there arise serious difficulties.
The desire for logical completeness is fundamental in all
Christological studies and inspires to new endeavors in this field. The restless human intellect ever searches for the completing idea, the sufficient reason, which requires none other for its support. Christology has not yet reached this stage of completeness.
The mental interest in causes, has given rise to perplexing
questions as regards the Virgin Birth, the Miracles, the Resurrection and the Trinity. It is most difficult to satisfy this interest in causes by the usual Christology. It may be questioned whether such a hunger may ever be satisfied. We can, however, endeavor to find new points of view and “strengthen the things that remain” by so doing. The discovery of the real in the realm of mystery is not
beyond the bounds of possibility.
An encumbered Christology has produced unbelievers and has barred men from becoming acquainted with the real Jesus.]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/45396 |
| Date | January 1918 |
| Creators | Staffeld, Daniel W. |
| Publisher | Boston University |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | No known copyright restrictions, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ |
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