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Review & Expositor | 1958
Herbert C. Jackson
with thought provides insights into the nature of sinful freedom, but it seems blind to the nature of the sinner, the extent of his bondage, his blindness to God, and the truth adumbrated in the doctrine of original sin that he is free only to choose what kind of sinner he will be. Dr. Bertocci is a Methodist, but this is not Arminian theology. It is an overhang of a liberalism that we thought we had left behind us. E. C. Rust
Review & Expositor | 1958
Herbert C. Jackson
civilization, the non-Christian factors which have been so dominant in producing most of the peculiarly European characteristics of our civilization, Christianity’s exercise of the role of repeatedly judging and correcting European civilization, the extent and influence of Christianity in many areas of the world outside Europe during the rise of the Western civilization (700 A.D. onward), and the manifest ability of Christianity today to exist in other cultures apart from association with the penetration of Western civilization through colonialism. For the sake of this one lecture the book is highly commended. In the rest of the book Toynbee shows himself an utter novice in the matter of understanding religions. He deals in broad, personalized generalizations, unsupported by adequate evidence and almost without exception erroneous. He has a superficial estimate of the origin, character, and roles of the religions of mankind, using the outmoded “value judgment” criterion and envisioning the future in terms of an amalgam of Hocking’s principle of “reception” and Bahaism. Toynbee’s appeal is that the religions should stand together-tolerant, equal, shoulder-to-shoulder-against the common enemy of man’s self-centered worship of himself, whether expressed individually or collectively. In style and readability the book is excellent. Herbert C. Jackson
Review & Expositor | 1958
Herbert C. Jackson
Through this small volume, representing the Lyman Beecher Lectures a t Yale University for 1957, one is introduced to the newest thing in the history of Christianity: the new and renewed insight into our faith and the enrichment of our theological apprehension through the effort of competent nationals of the Younger Churches as they grapple with the problem of interpreting Christianity against a non-Christian environment and proclaiming the Gospel to people of other religious convictions. Thus, in our generation, and those lying just ahead, theological perception will be hammered out on the anvils of various religio-philosophical back-grounds just as was done in the early centuries on a Greco-Roman base. Dr. Niles is a native of Ceylon, where he is a Methodist minister, but he is a “naturalized citizen” of the Christian world, for no one is more influential in evangelism than he. For these lectures to preachers, Niles selected the basic “point of stumbling” with reference to Christianity of a typical Hindu, a typical Muslim, and a typical Buddhist, and sought to present the claims of Christ in the face of these “refusals.” The fourth lecture delves into the difficult but allimportant question of “when the Gospel is proclaimed,” and the last lecture deals with the context of the preacher’s task. This book is highly commended. I t demonstrates effectively that the “newest thing” redounds not only to the advancement of the Gospel in a non-Christian culture but is equally applicable and helpful in our traditional Western culture. Herbert C. Jackson
Review & Expositor | 1958
Herbert C. Jackson
Protestantism. Denominational multiplicity is explained in terms of European heritage, frontierism, and free churchism. In general, however, the various denominations have common features: centrality of preaching enlistment through evangelism, love for pastoral leadership, activism, friendliness, independency, theological simplicity, social benevolence, program of stewardship, free worship, Christian education, etc. Despite religious competition, the American churches, Osborn insists, are searching for a unity in freedom, if not for union. Beneath the theological surface (whose waves are traditionalism, liberalism, fundamentalism, and neo-orthodoxy), he argues, there is a sea of satisfying faith. In the last chapter he asks critical questions about the genuineness of the so-called “return to religion.” For the person who desires further study there is a brief but choice bibliography for each chapter. Each pastor should read this work closely, not only for information, but also for insight. Hugh Wamble
Review & Expositor | 1958
Herbert C. Jackson
Here is another monumental work from the pen of Latourette, written with his usual scholarly thoroughness and comprehensiveness. The Y. M. C. A. Movement has been seriously misunderstood and under-estimated by multitudes in the United States, especially among Baptists. This book provides the corrective. After sketching the world situation into which the movement was born in London in 1844 and summarizing its origin and development in the U S A . and Canada, the volume details the service and contribution of the North American wing of the movement in many countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Final chapters delineate the main characteristics of this world service and conclude with that which one always expects from Latourette, a “Comprehensive Retrospect.” This history shows once again how great movements, culminating in a world view and in world service, resulted from the Evangelical Awakening. The founder of the Y.M.C.A. movement was George Williams (1821-1905), who had been profoundly stirred by the writings of Charles G. Finney. Charter members were from four major Protestant denominations of England-Church of England, Methodist, Congregational, and Baptist. Herbert C. Jackson
Review & Expositor | 1969
Herbert C. Jackson
Review & Expositor | 1961
Herbert C. Jackson
Review & Expositor | 1961
Herbert C. Jackson
Review & Expositor | 1959
Herbert C. Jackson
Review & Expositor | 1958
Herbert C. Jackson