Excerpt from Liberal Orthodoxy: A Historical Survey Why the period can be briefly dealt With - A time of greater caution - What is meant by this - Cautiousness led to lack of con structive impulsehthere was no return upon the older inspiration theory - The protest of Conservative Orthodoxy went ou - The Colenso controversy - W. Robertson Smith - Effect of Darwm's books - But application of the freer interpretation principle was not itself large and fies - How certain doctrines came into debate - Retribution - Farrar, Cox, Brown, White - Atonement - Dale - But Liberal Orthodoxy became non-theological - A few great conceptions left, Fatherhood of God, ete. - Some rejowed in this as giving all that was needed - George Macdonald - What he achieved and what he did not - Consequences of this minimising process - Pressure of Spencerian evolutionary theory - The super natural Christ not so much worth while - How Liberal Orthodoxy made terms with evolution - Christian life and experience con ceived in evolutionary terms - Drummond - The next step, Christ as the ideal man linked up with the evolutionary process Luce Mandi, Gore, griffith-j ones, Fairbairn - But for all these the Incarnation was still a wholly special thing - But the claims of evolution are not yet met - The next step - The Incarnation itself taken as the standard for man - Inge - Easy, thereafter, for Liberal Orthodoxy to pass the line - The Hegelian influence T. H. Green, Matthew Arnold - How some of Liberal Orthodoxy's adherents leaped the barrier - There has been no violent break The imtial error - Voices on behalf of a better conception - Dale, Moberly, Forsyth - But the erroneous idea holds the field - The story closes on the interrogative note - Addendum on America. 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.