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The Religion of Time and the Religion of Eternity
The Religion of Time and the Religion of Eternity Author:Philip Henry Wicksteed Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: yoke of time with deepened faith, with brightened hope, with more glowing love, because we fight not as those that beat the air, but as those who know what it is... more » to live, and who would fain throw open the gates of life that they and their brethren may go in thereat and live the life of God. THE END. SUMMARY. Manifold signs of renewed interest in the later Middle Ages (7-12). We are awakening from the misconceptions inherited from the polemics of the Renaissance and the Reformation, realising that the breach between mediaeval and modern times was not so absolute as we supposed, and recognising in the weakness of the Middle Ages dangers not yet vanquished, in their strength sources of life not yet exhausted, and in both an unsuspected kinship with the forces that move our own lives (13-19). Hence the interest and the importance of a sympathic study of the Middle Ages (20-21). The group of religious ideas selected for study gathers round the conceptions of Eternity, Fruition, the vision of God (22-28). Reasons for prominence of the thought ofEternity in the Middle Ages (29-32). The modern conception of Progress (33-38) has so averted our minds from the ideas of Eternity and Fruition as to involve our spiritual life in a self contradiction (39-42). Necessity of recovering the sense of the higher 'enjoyment' if we are to rescue our thought from this tangle (43-45). The true significance of Progress as the means of realisation, and the false habit of mind engendered by the misconception that dwells on Progress to the exclusion of Fruition in man's life here and hereafter, and in the being of God (46-49). The inevitableness of the conception of Eternity, which this misconception banishes from the being of God, but cannot remove from the constitution of things ; and the relief...« less