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Hinduism and Evolutionary Christianity

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Apr 5, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 14.

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Hinduism and Evolutionary Christianity

In view of the present tendencies in religious teaching there is much significance in the following explanation of the essential principle of Hinduism:—
According to higher Hinduism, salvation comes not by righteousness, but by knowledge; not by the casting out of sin, but by emerging out of ignorance. The root of all evil is not a discordant and unsubmissive will, but a darkened understanding. The remedy, therefore, is not moral, but metaphysical.
How much real difference is there between Hinduism and the evolutionary conception of Christianity?