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On The Religious Frontier
Author: Percival Chubb

ON THE RELIGIOUS FRONTIER From an Outpost of Ethical Religion BY PERCIVAL CHUBB of the Ethical Society of St. Louis NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY FOREWORD THIS little book is precisely characterized by the title. It is written on the religious frontier by one who has long sojourned there, early found a home there, and has for many years been en... more »gaged in commending it to the homeless. He tries to report the present situ ation there, and the predicament of those who are to-day finding their way to this border land between the zone of orthodox religion and the region beyond, where men live unattached to any distinctively religious institution and are not united in any religious fellowship. While the main thesis of the book is the prime need of religious fellowship, most of it is devoted to a pres entation of what is offered in the writers new-found and recently established home, where a religion of ethi cal fellowship has stayed the flight of some of the estrays. Here the modern-minded may find a new sim plified type of religion which exacts no conformities of creed, is hospitable to new knowledge, fronts the chal lenges and perplexities of the life of to-day in all their concreteness, and allows for fluctuating diversities of individual conviction. He has tried to profit by his experiences on two frontiers, English and American and has drawn on the former when they aided understanding. If England vii viii FOREWORD drew upon America for the new ethical inspiration, America has drawn liberally upon England for its ex ponents. The alliance has been close and the influences complementary. Should the method of the book seem unduly dis cursive, the plea must be that religion is not a matter to be neatly disposed of and particularly the religion, new-born on the frontier, which it is the purpose of this book to interpret in its vital rather than its formal features. CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD vii PART I THE FRONTIER ITS REPUDIATIONS AND THEIR POSITIVE IMPLICATIONS i 1. The Frontier 3 2. The Repudiations of the Frontier 14 3. Liberation A New Fellowship 24 PART II ORIENTATIONS 35 1. Introductory Concerning Words 37 2. Ethical, Not Moral 42 3. Youth on the Frontier 48 4. Fellowship and Solitariness 53 5. Fellowship and Worship 63 6. Background Anglo-American 71 PART III NEW AND OLD RENOVATION AND REINTERPRETA TION 81 Renewal and Reinterpretation 83 The New and the Old 94 A Reinterpretation Thanksgiving 104 The New Spirit 126 Acceptance 138 PART I THE FRONTIER ITS REPUDIATIONS AND THEIR POSITIVE IMPLICATIONS THE FRONTIER THIS is the frontier where the last scattered outposts of organized religion stand. Across it files of way farers are passing into the territory of the unchurched. They have left the churches to which they belonged mainly by the accident of birth to join the ranks of the unattached. Some hesitate there are children with them. They contemplate renouncing the fellowship of religion for the isolation of detachment, which means that these children are to be cut off from the social and cultural influences of religious associations. A few border outposts offer a last hope. They invite the way farers to reconsider their predicament, contending that their scruples may be met by new types of association. These small modernist outposts include left-wing Unitarians, Humanists, Ethicists, and others. Mingled with them are smaller cults representing varieties of New Thought and further to the rear are the advanced churches in which liberalized leaders preach bold and unconventional doctrines, set in liturgies that conflict with them, under the strain of embarrassing compro mises. The influences that have led to this exodus are many and varied. Any classifications we may make will be rough, neglecting some fine shadings of difference but we may broadly distinguish two or three types of actual 3 4 ON THE RELIGIOUS FRONTIER truancy...

ISBN-13: 9781406742305
ISBN-10: 1406742309
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 164
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Publisher: Meyer Press
Book Type: Paperback
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