Excerpt from Creed and the Creeds: Their Function in Religion, Being the Bampton Lectures of 1911
The title under which these lectures were written and delivered may seem insufficient for them as published. For the enquiry proposed into the religious value of formularies of belief and the credal principle which underlies them, became on its way something larger - the search for a ground of the soul's spiritual endeavour which should be neither church tradition nor private conscience, but should be both and more than both. Its scope was no longer to reconcile two members of the religious fact - authority and reason, church and believer; but to comprehend in one two regions of universal fact - religion and nature, life in the Spirit and life in the world. The continuity of all existence, the oneness of things holy and things common, things present and things to come, life in the Spirit and life in the world, - this one creation of the One God seemed to open to the view, and the closed folds of the sacred and the secular to throw their fences down: the walls of space and time were rolled apart. 'Our eyes behold a far-stretching land.'
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