The Theology Of Modern Fiction PDF Download

Excerpt from The Theology of Modern Fiction: Being the Twenty-Sixth Fernley Lecture Delivered in Liverpool, July, 1896 IN the early centuries religious teaching was formulated in Church councils, and dispensed amongst the half-taught races of Christendom, 'without scowl of protest from the docile patient. It is a far cry thence to the present hour, when a large section of the public picks up its religious ideas outside the Church. The daily press coins the commercial and political creeds of our fellow country men, and the successful novel-writer coins the religious creeds of equally large numbers. It may be a question how long the currency will wear; but for the time being a dozen story-writers, whom it would be easy to name, have influenced multitudes of people to an extent that may well be the despair of an equal number of trained divines or famous preachers. 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.