God S Image In Man And Its Defacement In The Light Of Modern Denials

Based on the Stone Lectures at Princeton, this apologetic carefully distinguishes between biblical teaching, modern anthropology, and movements throughout church history.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... so Ill SCRIPTURE AND SCIENCE ON THE ORIGIN OF MAN--THE IMAGE AS A CREATION JN last lecture the Biblical account of man's origin was considered in its connection with the subject of man's nature. It was then shown that, in the account in Genesis, man's creation is referred to a special, supernatural act of God; that, while in it man appears as the head and crown of nature--the goal and resting-point of the whole creative movement--he is yet not a mere creature of nature, but stands in a peculiar relation to God, as bearing His rational and moral image, and standing under moral and religious responsibilities to Him. It was seen that this view of the spiritual nature and dignity of man is not overturned by what is advanced against it from the side of a materialistic monism, with its crude doctrine of a universal Substance, its denial of a distinct spiritual principle in man, its theories of psychical and physical parallelism, and its other forms of naturalistic negation. I am in the present lecture to consider the Biblical account of man's origin in relation to theories of natural evolution. The monistic doctrine on this point may be sufficiently summed up for our present purpose in the following propositions, derived from Haeckel: -- 1. There has been a slow and unbroken process of evolution from the lowest forms of organic life to the highest achievement of nature--Man. In Haeckel's view this 'biogenetic process, the slow development and transformation of countless organic germs, must have taken many millions of years--considerably over a hundred.'1 2. This evolution is the result of natural causes which do not imply intelligence or purpose.2 3. The immediate ancestors of man are the anthropoid apes. To quote our authority again: ..

Excerpt from God's Image in Man and Its Defacement in the Light of Modern Denials At the same time a thinking man to hold; but it is irreconcilable with many of the theories that profess to be based on science and philosophy, and is not capable of assimilation with these. We all acknowledge this in connection with the Materialisms, the Monisms, the Agnosticisms, the Pantheisms, that seek to supplant the Chris tian conception; but I would carry the principle a good deal further - into the region of the doctrines dealt with in these lectures. How far Ihave succeeded - and no one is more conscious of the imperfections of my treatment than myself - the reader must be left to form his own opinion. In the variety of views and reasonings that are presented, some food for re ection, at any rate, may be suggested.. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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Based on the Stone Lectures at Princeton, this apologetic carefully distinguishes between biblical teaching, modern anthropology, and movements throughout church history.