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Title: The New Theology

Author: R. J. Campbell

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THE NEW THEOLOGY

BY

R. J. CAMPBELL, M.A.

MINISTER OF THE CITY TEMPLE, LONDON

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1907

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1907,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1907.

Reprinted April, 1907.

INTRODUCTION

This book has been undertaken at the request of a number of my friends
who feel that recent criticisms of what has come to be called the New
Theology ought to be dealt with in some comprehensive and systematic
way. With this suggestion my own judgment concurs, but only so far as
my own pulpit teaching is concerned. I cannot pretend to speak for
anyone else, and therefore this monograph must not be understood as an
authoritative exposition of the views held and expounded by other
preachers who may be in sympathy with the New Theology. From its very
nature, as I hope the following pages will show, the New Theology
cannot be a creed, but its adherents have a common standpoint. My only
reason for calling this book by that title is that a considerable
section of the public at present persists in regarding me as in a
special way the exponent of it; indeed from the correspondence which
has been proceeding in the press it is evident that many people credit
me with having invented both the name and the thing. It is of little
use objecting to the name, for to all appearance it has come to stay
and is gradually acquiring a marked and definite content. So long as
it is clearly understood that this book is but an outline statement of
my own personal views, the title will do no harm. The controversy
which is not yet over has been fruitful in misunderstandings of all
kinds, and a great many of the criticisms passed upon my teaching have