New Theology Defined

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 22, 1909

New Theology Defined

THERE appears in the Christian Standard, as copied in the Western Recorder of April 1, an article from George W. Hamilton, on the New Theology. In answer to the question as to what constitutes this subtle philosophy, he gives the following comprehensive definition:—

“It is a 'compound of the graces and “good things” of Christianity and a new infidelity and an old one, evolution, and disbelief in miracles. These last require the destruction or discrediting of all the books from Genesis to Revelation, for all are full of miracle, and all are diametrically opposed to the theory that man is ascending from protoplasm under the care of evolution. These two “discoveries,” disbelief in miracles and evolution, and their corollaries, constitute the whole pretentious structure of the “New Theology,”—colonnade, architrave, cornice and pillar, foundation and dome,— and all the discoursings and writings of professor, orator, preacher, or editor are variations, or variations of variations, under these two working principles.