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Title: Some Christian Convictions
A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking

Author: Henry Sloane Coffin

Release Date: August 3, 2005 [EBook #16424]

Language: English

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SOME CHRISTIAN CONVICTIONS

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Some Christian Convictions

A PRACTICAL RESTATEMENT IN TERMS OF PRESENT-DAY THINKING

BY HENRY SLOANE COFFIN

MINISTER IN THE MADISON AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK CITY

_Non enim omnis qui cogitat credit sed cogitat omnis qui credit, et
credendo sogitat et cogitando credit_.--AUGUSTINE

COPYRIGHT, 1915 BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

First published, 1915 Second printing, 1915 Third printing, 1916 Fourth
printing, 1920

TO D.P.C.

SOCIAE REI HUMANAE ATQUE DIVINAE

PREFACE

Bishop Burnet, in his _History of His Own Time_, writes of Sir Harry
Vane, that he belonged "to the sect called 'Seekers,' as being satisfied
with no form of opinion yet extant, but waiting for future discoveries."
The sect of Sir Harry Vane is extraordinarily numerous in our day; and
at various times I have been asked to address groups of its adherents,
both among college students and among thoughtful persons outside
university circles, upon the fundamental beliefs of Christianity. Some
of my listeners had been trained in the Church, but had thrown off their
allegiance to it; others had been reared in Judaism or in agnosticism;
others considered themselves "honorary members" of