The spiritual return of Christ within the church
Subtitle: papers on Christian theism
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 1907
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: PART I; title: THEISM, THE AFFIRMATIVE VIEW OF GOD AND MAN; title: 1. Theism is the Sovereign Affirmative Manner of viewing Life    3; title: 2. The Theist is the Universal Enthusiast for God 4; title: 3. Theism is the Supreme Consecration of our understanding of the Material Universe  6; title: 4. Man's Moment of Failure is God's Moment of Redemption  7; title: 5. The Theist rejoices in Science as the beginning of the Vision of God 8; title: 6. Theism is the Supreme Reasonableness about all things on Earth and in Heaven 9; title: 7. By believing in God, the whole Universe comes into, and dwells within our Soul ; and we experience in ourselves all History till the end of Time   11; title: 8. Religion is necessarily, absolutely and eternally, conditioned by Morals ; but it is in itself the possession of the Kingdom of God around us, not merely the way thither     12; title: 9. The Kingdom of God is the Christ-like, and hence God-like, control and disposition of the Universe 15; title: 10. Christian Moral Theology is the ordering of the Universe according to the Precepts of Christ ; and is based upon Man's Duty of making the Earth minister to the Fatherliness of God 17; title: 11. Three Social Witnessings of God : —; title: (1) Just and Fatherly Economics 19; title: (2) Social Ethics of Brotherliness 20; title: (3) Holiness of Exclusive Consecration to Christliness, or Love of the Earth 21; title: PART II; title: THE COSMIC VISION OF CHRIST; title: 1. The Spiritual Coming is no great wonder to those who know both Christ's sympathy with God's Creation, and hence also the Creation's responding sympathy with Him 25; title: 2. We too, by union in sympathy with the Universe, are prepared to receive the World's Christ 26; title: 3. The General Judgment will carry out Christ's Will, because Christ, having first obeyed the Will of All, is thus empowered to interpret the Whole of Things 27; title: 4. Theism, summed up in brief, is the Rational Theory that Goodness is the one ever-enduring created Substantiality 28; title: 5. The Theist delights more in all Science, Study, and Investigation than anyone who ever doubted God 29; title: 6. The intimate revealings of Music to the heart and soul prove that the World is spiritual, and that it is constructed so as to respond to personality 30; title: 7. The evidence for the "Electrical Theory" of the constitution of matter suggests how Spirit can control the Material Universe as a mighty instrument of Spiritual Power 33; title: 8. Our weak and ghostly surmisings of the Good grow in time into the solid and real City of God 34; title: 9. Monism is the doctrine that in any particle of the universe is the potential Everything in the universe. The Theist is a Monist who says that human personality is an essential and immortal reality, and that if Christ was in the world, the world was, and is, and will be, with Christ 36; title: 10. We can gather up a kind of essential and true Theology by that inner knowledge of the soul and life called Psychology 39; title: 11. The World of Nature is filled with anticipations, expectations, and forebodings of the World of Grace 42; title: 12. Theism sees in Christ the native or pre-ordained centre of Rest in the Sacred Harmony of His Being 43; title: 13. When we begin to comprehend the place of Christ in the world, we find ourselves very close in spirit to the Apostles who saw and conversed with Jesus 44; title: 14. The Agony in the Garden was the Thought-Ransom of the World 45; title: 15. The Science of Christ is not contrary to the Science of the Universe; for a certain simplification in existing Scientific Conceptions would bring us direct to Christ 47; title: 16. All which conforms to the Spirit and Likeness of Christ is of the New Creation 48; title: 17. Our Soul's memories of the Beloved Dead are real Courts and Shrines of the presence of the Dead, and by the Voice of the Son of God the Dead will arise again, not only in Him, but also in their abiding-places in us     49; title: 18. Christ's final appearance is in reality predetermined by His power of persistence in Humanity, through which great Reverberance He will outlive His enemies and appear again    51; title: 19. Heaven is closely, and with perfect accuracy, portrayed in the inner pictures we all possess of bliss, though it seems beyond all our imaginings that these should ever be realised   52; title: 20. Theism teaches that, if there be a Communion of Saints, then the Beloved Dead will come to us with as complete an invisible reality as the reality of our own souls     53; title: PART III; title: THE CHURCH ; OR, THE KEEPING OF THE KING'S LIKENESS AND IMPRESSION; title: 1. The Church is a power which integrates and immortalises man 59; title: 2. The Church is the Angel or Messenger of the Son of God      60; title: 3. The Church selects its Apostles in Christ's name from men who faithfully represent their age  62; title: 4. Church History is a gradual ordering of the true and living Impression of Christ in the Church, until Christ is as plainly manifested as He once was to His Apostles 63; title: 5 Unless Divine Providence has wholly ceased to be, the experience and activities of the Anglican Church are necessarily a token of its segregation by the Holy Ghost for the furtherance of the hidden divine Design of Reunion 64; title: 6. To conquer all, the Christian Saint must, in a sense, first himself be subdued by all 66; title: 7. The Churches, by the light of Nature, seem to see dearly why they should disagree ; but by the light of Grace the apparent reasons for division will seem the necessary reasons why they should all combine together again 68; title: 8. Conversions wrought by the Christ-like life of Christians are a precious gathering together of mankind in Christ; but all so-called Conversions from one Communion to another, wrought through Proselytism, are a mere scattering or dissipation of the life of Christianity 70; title: 9. Church History is a great ordering of the Healing of that Blindness of Vision which prevents Mankind from seeing Christ in the Holy Ghost 71; title: 10. The Church is a great and perpetual Covenant of Loyalty  75; title: 11. Christ welcomed those who were Sinners by excess of Sociability as persons who has misguidedly sought His Kingdom  76; title: 12. The intense realism in which the Gospel speaks of the Kingdom of Heaven 79; title: 13. The Church is a great institutional and structural acceptance by mankind of the gift and reality of the Incarnation of Christ 81; title: 14. The Bible is deeply inlaid with an inspired Plan of the Reunion of all the Spiritual Tribes of Israel in a "City," that is, an institutional realisation 82; title: 15. The Story of the finding of Christ in Prophecy is in a certain sense repeated in the history of our comprehending Him  83; title: 16. Students of Christ's Humanity are the reconcilers of the Church of Christ 84; title: 17. Church Dogma preserves our contact with the New Creation  85; title: PART IV; title: THE GENIUS OF THE "TO BE" AND THE BOOK OF LIFE; title: 1. The Bible is truly inspired, because it was conceived of and written down in the power of that Genius of Reality which is the Holy Ghost  95; title: 2. The Bible agrees with the very scheme of numbers in which men and history are made ; and therefore narrates and foretells all essential history   97; title: 3. The Bible is the expression of the whole Substance of things ; therefore it agrees with the heart of all Science 98; title: 4. The Bible is not an Incarnation of God in the Flesh, but the Birth of the entire Thought of God in the letters and scriptures and individual thoughts of mankind  100; title: 5. All revealed Dogmas are divine Affirmatives to questions asked by the innermost nature and framework of humanity  103; title: 6. The Future is a living reality in so far as all the Creation prefigures itself, and the way of life, by a kind of Clairvoyance of its own deeds and character and tendencies. This indwelling of the Future in the Now is a simile of what the Holy Ghost is for God and Man    105; title: 7. The Holy Ghost brings the assured presentiment of God's Conquest over Misery, Injustice, Sin and Death, into the midst of all the imperfect strivings of men 106; title: 8. The Holy Spirit, abiding of Himself in what to us is the Future, when He descends from thence to us conforms our hearts to our eternal destinies 110; title: 9. The Holy Ghost solves the entire Problem and Difficulty of the World which besets the Earth's path, and having seen through to the End, is empowered to lead men to all Truth, and conquer the barriers on the Way of Life 110; title: 10. The new Christly fullness of character can only come to each one through his sympathies with the whole of Nature and his brotherly compassion with every single life 112; title: 11. The true Christ Lover gains perfect individual Inspiration through perfect Submission to God's Laws and Human Institutions 114; title: 12. In the reign of the Holy Ghost, men will sum up all the good things of the Past and be clothed anew with the Mind of Christ 116; title: 13. The Kingdom of the Holy Ghost is only delayed, awaiting on our perfect obedience to God and His Church 119; title: 14. We can only increase our lives by sacrificing them, for by Sacrifice we leave room within us for the indwelling of the Spirit of Christ 120; title: PART V; title: CHRIST, THE MYSTICAL SELF OF MEN; title: 1. The Saints are the Mystical Sons of God 125; title: 2. In St John's Apocalypse the "Parousia," or Last Judgment, was rehearsed, and in a sense also individually experienced by the Apostle 127; title: 3. Saints who love Nature are the mediums through which Christ returns spiritually within Nature 130; title: 4. Church History is World-Education in the comprehension of Christ 131; title: 5. Conversion is not the Christ-life itself ; but it is an inner absolution which frees men and suffers them to begin to take up their Cross and follow Christ 133; title: 6. St Paul's Conversion possesses a Cosmic Realism about it which sets it forth as a foreboding of the future Sacred Interchange of Humanity with the Life of Christ 134; title: 7. Sanctity is the one divinely real Art, for by Sanctity man himself, and not a piece of wood or stone, is fashioned into the expression of his great Design of the sum of beauty 136; title: 8. St Francis was a true Doctor of the Truth of the Fatherhood of God 137; title: 9. The Holy Eucharist is the institutional predetermination of the Second Coming of Christ 138; title: 10. The work of the Holy Ghost in Souls causes Christ to become visibly manifest through His Disciples who receive Him in the Holy Eucharist 141; title: 11. The Whole Church is a kind of bodily reality and structural ordering of the living Impression of Christ, who dwells in the Church. 144; title: 12. Because each and every spiritual reality possess a bodily reality conjoined to it, the Church of Christ, which is a spiritual fact, is a bodily reality too. Since also it is a perpetuation of the Impression of Christ that part of our sacred and united Thought-World which is stamped with His spiritual Impression contains His bodily reality too 145; title: 13. In the Holy Eucharist there is the principle of a changing of our minds and reasons in order that they may see the Blessed Sovereignty of God in all the Creation 147; title: 14. Christ, though sacrificed for us, cannot yet assimilate Himself to our inner being, unless we first of all present our souls and bodies a living sacrifice to Him 148; title: 15. The Holy Eucharist is the medium through which the Spirit finally brings to pass the fulfilment of the Promises of the Old and New Covenants of God 149; title: PART VI; title: TEN INSTRUCTIONS ON TITLES OF CHRIST; title: 1. "Dayspring" 155; title: 2. "Made of a Woman"  156; title: 3. "Great Prophet" 158; title: 4. "Prince of Peace"  160; title: 5. "Star of Jacob"  161; title: 6. "Root of Jesse"  163; title: 7. (The Second) "David"  165; title: 8. "Servant"  166; title: 9. "Messenger of the Covenant"   168; title: 10. "Messiah"  170; title: PART VII; title: INSTRUCTIONS ON SCRIPTURAL TOPICS; title: 1. Prophecy 175; title: 2. Social Justice 177; title: 3. The Royal Prophet and the Royal Church  178; title: 4. Shepherd and Bishop of Souls 180; title: 5. Poor in Spirit 182; title: 6. Mercy 185; title: 7. The Birth of Christ 186; title: 8. The Shepherds 189; title: 9. The Manifestation 192; title: 12. Carpenter at Nazareth 194; title: 11. The Empire of the Servant 196