Alexander Campbell and Christian Liberty (Classic Reprint)

The world ever has its revivals. The Renaissance which overspread Europe in the fifteenth Century was a shaking up of the thought-world. Thoughts hidden for ages were resuscitated aud made to do service among men. The Reformation which followed in its wake belonged properly to the moral realm and directed its blows to conscience. Each age is characterized in an especial way by some revival in literature, in painting, in music, in morals, or in religion. The revival of the present day through which we are passing, is the Revival of Personality. Psychology has come. Man is understood as never before. It is the age of humanity. The whole man and the whole of men is the recognition. All the world of the beautiful and of art is but a single rose thrown over the garden wall, as but a little hint of the infinite riches of some personal life. So President King is able to say: All values finally go back to the riches of some personal life. We can not be too often reminded that the best the world has ever shown us in literature, or music, or art, is but a partial revelation of the inner riches of some personal life. So Kaftan is in the habit of saying in his lectures at the University of Berlin, that the greatest problem of life is the problem of appreciative understanding of the great personalities of history. This book is an attempt in this direction. It seeks to know and to feel the force and significance of the controlling ideas of Alexander Campbell as they issue forth inC hristian I iberty. On the part of the author it is a soul experience. For the past several years he has been sitting in the oresenee of this great personality with a longing to know him and to feel the touch of his soul in friendship. He brings only what he said to him with Personal and I deals Elements in Education, p. 78.
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