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IThe New Theology. -
I The New Theology. A Reply to the Rev. Harold Davies' Criticism BY Rev. J. Lewis, M.A., Ton. In the Rhondda Leader" of June 15th and 22nd, there appeared two fascinating articles of criticism by the Rev. Harold Davies, of Ynyshir, on Mr. Campbell's book, The New Theology." I had hoped that someone with greater ability and leisure than I unfortunately possess at present would have favoured us ere this with a reply. As far as I know, nothing has appeared except Mr. Green's short letter, which in many respects was excellent, yet could not be regarded as an adequate reply, as it dealt with side issues more than with the fundamentals. I may be allowed to refer to some of the pleasant features of Mr. Davies' articles before proceeding to those points that appear to me to be defective. Mr. Davies gives us the evidence of having read the book he criticises. This may seem to some to be an unnecessary remark to make. In view of what has passed during the last six months, it is not. Over and over again have we listened to persons who from public platforms have denounced Mr. Campbell's theology in the most scathing terms, but when questioned at the close of the meeting, had to admit they had not read the book. Indeed, ones popular evangelist, whoi was well paid for his evangelistic work, went, so far as to make it a boast that he had not done so, his reason being that it is not necessary to taste poison before we can know it is poison! Having denounced Mr. Campbell with many a superlative, he brought his peroration to a close with the authoritative command to every Christian minister who in any way preached the pernicious doctrine of this book to leave his pulpit for some other work for which he may be better qualified. And yet he had not even read the book I To these would-be leaders of thought Mr. Davies has set a worthy example. Again, for the articles looked at from a literary point of view I have nothing but admiration. So flowing is the diction, and musical the sentences, that they leave us with the hope that we shall be favoured in the near future with many an article from his facile pen. It is unfortunate that we also find here features almost equally evident for which we have anything but admiration. The first which strikes us is the flippant, almost arrogant, spirit which seems to dominate the whole. I suggest that The New Apostacy or The New Reli- gion would be a far more correct title for it. It is a brand new religion, con- sidered as a whole, as new as Dr. Dowie's Zionism,' but not so sane. Where are the 'New Theologians'? It seems as if they had all retired to the silence and half light of their caves to medidate, and, it is devoutly to be hoped, to repent." Surely, this is not the attitude of a, humble enquirer after divine truth. When shall we learn humility in dealing with these great and sacred truths, of God? Another feature which has surprised us is Mr. Davies' original logic. Let us take one specimen out of many: My God is my deeper self, and yours, too. He is the Self of the universe. He (Mr. Campbell) devotes a whole paragraph to, show that the self is God. He believes that John the Evangelist taught the New Theology. John says: God so loved the world,' &c. What Mr. Campbell thinks John meant according to his doctrine of God was For man so loved the world,' &c. Man is God and God is man.' To tell a man that he himself is God may be" flattering to him, but the most ignorant man would know what the pastor of the City Temple uo-es not seem to know-that in no sense could that be termed the Christian God." Mark Mr. Campbell's statement and Mr. Davies' conclusion. Mr. Campbell says: My God is my deeper self (i.e., the God I find expressed in my deeper self) From this Mr. Davies draws the conclusion, my self is God, or, in his own words, Man is God and God is man." We find here one of the most serious fallacies which constantly invalidate Mr. Davies' criticism; and to some of us it is little less than humorous to find a critic, who has passed such a sweeping con- demnation on Mr. Campbell's system (which is philosophic, if anything), guilty of violating one of the most important laws of elementary Logic. Let us add a few examples similar to the one just quoted: God is love, love is God. God is humility, humility is God. God is light, light is God. The first statement is true, but by no law of Logic known to the human mind can the second-the conclusion—be deduced from it, otherwise we would have as many Gods as the Infinite has of attributes, and we would soon be landed in a polytheism such as would excel the polytheism of ancient Greece and Rome in the multi- plicity of its Gods. When we remember f this, it is no wonder that Mr. Davies makes Mr. Campbell guilty of giving ex- pression to such incredible nonsense. So much for Mr. Davies' logic. Ab uno disce omnes." The most serious and far-reaching accusation made by Mr. Davies in his criticism is the following: To the New Theology, God is everything and every- thing is God. There is no heaven, no hell. There is no judgment nor Judg- ment Day. Above all, there is no Personal God." The conception of God is necessarily the fundamental doctrine of every theological system, and if Mr. Davies' presentation of the New Theology idea of God be the correct one, if above all, there is no Personal God," this New Theology can have no value to a Christian disciple. An Impersonal God has no meaning to the religious consciousness. The moment we abandon our idea of God as personal, all that properly constitutes religion dis- appears. But does Mr. Davies rightly interpret Mr. Campbell's position? Let it be borne in mind that this controversy does not prove that I am a New Theologian and that Mr. Davies is an Old Theologian, or its converse. The sole point at issue is Mr. Davies' interpretation of Mr. Camp- bell's book. The problem of Personality is one which presents very great difficulties. But for our present purposes we may be able to gain the necessary amount of knowledge without entering upon the graver psycho- logical difficulties it involves. The main constituent elements of Per- sonality are admittedly Feeling, Mind, Will, resulting in the more complex functions of Thinking Consciousness, Permanence, and Self-consciousness. Of course, these must not be regarded as existing in isolation. Volition includes feeling and thought; so thought involves feeling and volition. In these there is a unity or self which gives them order and meaning. This self does not pass away with its transitory feelings, thoughts and volitions. If it did it would not be able to correlate them. It would not be conscious of any kind of sequence. We find that the self can com- bine its present with its past, hence the self itself must have permanence. Again, this permanence of the self and transitoriness of the not-self bring the self into the consciousness of its own exist- ence as opposed to other existences—hence self-consciousness, which is a, fundamental characteristic of Personality. Not only are these the fundamental constituents of human Personality, but the larger the extent to which they are possessed by any individual, the larger the personality. If this be the content of human Per- sonality, what can the Personality of God mean? In reply to this question I cannot do better than quote Lotze's important pro- nouncement In point of fact we have little ground for speaking of the person- ality of finite beings. It is an ideal, and, like all that is ideal, belongs uncon- ditionally only to the Infinite. Perfect Personality is in God only. To all finite minds there is allotted but a pale copy thereof; the finiteness of the finite is not a producing condition of this personality, but a limit and hindrance of its develop- ment." Translating this to Mr.. Campbell's phraseology, we may say that human Personality is both immanent in the human body and transcends that body; and the Personality of God is immanent in all His creation and at the same time infinitely transcends that creation. We have now proceeded sufficiently far to deal with Mr. Davies' criticism of Mr. Campbell's position, Above all, there is no Personal God." I cannot do better here again than let Mr. Campbell speak for himself, and let the fair-minded reader judge if Mr. Davies' sweeping statement can be justified by the facts of the case. my God always calls to my deepel soul, ana teils me i must reau fiuu oy mine own highest ana best, and by tne mgnest and best that the universe has yet produced. Thus the last word about uoa oecomes the last word about man. It is Jesus. Materialists may teil me that the universe does not know what it is doing, that it goes on clanking and banging, age alter age, without end or aim; but 1 siiall continue to feel copipeiied to believe that the vower which produced Jesus must at least be equal to Jesus. bo Jesus becomes my gateway to the Innermost of God. When 1 look at Him, 1 say to myself, God is that.' (Page 22). To all eternity God is what He is, and never can be other; but it will take iiim to all eternity to live out all that He is. In order to manifest even to Himself the possibilities of his Being, God must limit that being. There is no other way in which the fullest self-realisation can be attained. Thus we get two modes of God —the infinite, perfect, unconditioned, primordial being; and the finite, imper- tect, conditioned and limited being, of which we are ourselves expressions. And yet these two are one, and the former is the guarantee that the latter shall not fail in the purpose for which it became limited. Thus to the question, Why a finite universe ? I should answer: Because God wants to express I, what He is. His achievement here is onlv one of an infinite number of possibilities. God is the perfect Poet, Who in creation acts to his own conceptions.' This is an end worthy of God and man. The act of creation is eternal, although the cosmos is changing every moment, for God is ceaselessly uttering Himself through higher and ever higher forms of existence." (rage 24). So far we have seen that the universe, including ourselves, is one instrument or vehicle of the self-expression of God. God is all. He is the universe and infinitely more." (Page 25). I leave it to the honest reader, the humble enquirer after truth, to judge if Mr. Davies' sweeping statement that, according to the teaching of Mr. Camp- bell's book, "Above all, there is no Per- sonal God" has even the semblance of truth. Have we not here all the essential characteristics of Personality, Feeling, Mind, Will, Thinking Consciousness, Per- manence, and Self-consciousness? (To be continued).
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Barry Summer School of Educational Handwork. During the last decade, new methods have been introduced into our system of education, the chief aim being to develop the brain through the medium of the hand. The foot, both in man and the lower creation, has one common function —that of walking. The hand in man alone possesses that skill and cunning which enables him to build houses, construct bridges, and to move upon the face of the waters. When we consider that fully 90 per cent. of the children that leave our schools have to earn their living by manual labour (not excluding architects, engineers, artists, &c.), we cannot but deplore the invincible ignorance that decrees that the children should be sent out to participate in the struggle for existence with hands untrained. Furthermore, the industrial conditions of England are subject to dis- turbances due to the rapid introduction of machinery, which supplants human labour; hence the necessity of training the hand and eye to a high degree of efficiency, to increase the adaptability of the workers. But gradually a change is taking place, the dead languages and dry bones of his- tory being supplanted by Educational Handwork, based on sound practical educational foundations. The Glamorgan County Council are to be congratulated on the part they are playing in this movement. One of the most successful courses in Education Handwork has just been completed at Barry which is an ideal place for a Holi- day School, surrounded as it is by beauti- ful countrv so rich in historic interest, for here we find cromlechs, Roman remains, castles and ruined churches. It has a fine stretch of gleaming sand, and its beach of polished pebbles is justly famous. An excellent service of boats ply between Barry and the different towns on the coiasts of the Bristol Channel. The whole course is under the director- ship of Mr. A. Sutcliffe, Organiser of Handicraft Instruction to the County of Glamorgan. Mr. Sutcliffe's wide experi- ence as a teacher, under Herr Solomon at Naas, as Director of the Sheffield Hand- work Association, as well as his previous experience in Manchester, has all contri- buted to the high standard attained by the course. The main principle underlying the course was correlation. We hear much of correlation nowadays; here it was seen at work. The Nature Study class was of excep- tional interest and merit. Miss Phillips (Newport) was in charge. The syllabus included the study of pond life as well as plant life. The plant was examined, drawn and described by each student. It was then dissected and examined under the micro- scope in the Laboratory, and finally ex- cursions were made in order to study the plant "in situ." The value of this training must be very great, as the amoni-it of scientific know- ledge gained by systematic observation tends to open the mind and make the teacher essentially practical. The Clay Modelling Class, taught by Mr. Williams, was very interesting. This course was correlated in the main with Nature Study, the pupils modelling speci- mens of natural productions, such as the apple, tomato, and poppy. Again the Nature Study was turned into account by Mr. W. H. Lord, A.R.C.A. (Lond.), First Honoursman both in Ken- sington and City of Guilds, who was in charge of the Brush Drawing Class. Some of the work done by the students dis- played no. small degree of artistic merit. His scheme for elementary schools was correlated with geography, history, and science. The Class in Chalk Drawing afforded yet another opportunity of repre- senting on a larger scale the subjects that had been drawn in detail in the Brush Class. Thus an object was taken in hand in the Nature Study Class and studied from a botanical point of view; it was then carefully drawn with an eye to detail and artistic effect in the Brushwqrk Class; enlarged in the Chjalk Ili-4 iilg. room; and finally modelled in clay, from which a plaster cast was made, which WftS a permanent record of the work done. Woodwork, an essential branch of all handwork, was under the tuition of Mr. J. J. Davies, teacher in Education Hand- work for Glamorgan. Ladies and gentle- men worked at the benches. The course lent itself to the development of neatness and exactness. The Wood Carving Class also had several students, who had pro- duced really creditable desigins. Another striking feature of the whole course was Metal Work, taught by Mr. H. C. Williams. The students made models in tin, brass, iron and steel. They worked at the forge and lathe. The work of this class showed a high degree of pro- ficiency. Sooner or later, metal work must form a. part of any scheme of handwork, as it affords a training to the pupil which no, other branch affords. The concen- tration of nerve and muscle to overcome the resistance of iron has a bracing effect on the pupil. A class in Swedish Drill for girls was a decided success. On alternate days, excursions were made to places of interest. Visits were made to General Lee's residence and to Ponmon Castle. The social side of the school was under the supervision of a Recreatioii Committee, who arranged games, whist drives and concerts. Mi-. T. W. Berry, F.C.S., Rhondda, took a keen interest in the work of the school. He gave an address to the pupils, in which he insisted on the importance of handwork in any scheme of education. Mr. Berry is well qualified to speak on this subject, being acquainted with tne best methods obtaining in the chief European centres. Councillor Walter Williams, Pentre, also visited the exhibition. As a tribute to the work done by these classes, it is significant that more certifi- cates were granted to Wales last year by the Association of Education Handwork than to the whole of England.
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