The True Nature of Scientific Theology
The true nature of the “scientific theory” of the present day is again made perfectly plain by a leading German professor of church history, as follows:— No religious conception or idea, whether it be found in the Bible or in the confessions, can claim to be absolutely authoritative for all times, and consequently not for our age. It is the calling of theological professors intentionally to shake their hearers in their naïve [childlike] faith, to lead them into doubt, and there are those who on this dangerous way are lost. Hence it is our task to endanger souls. And the Independent, November 8, which presents this, speaks of it as even a “typical” utterance. That is what it is whether as to Germany or the United States; for now Germany is the source of “scientific theology” for the United States.