6 CUURCH UNITY 



Pauline type of Gentile Christianity, so 

 in the later Church Catholicism has fol- 

 lowed St. Peter until it denied his Lord 

 in the papacy ; while Protestantism, like 

 St. Paul, has blamed and withstood it 

 until freedom has become license. And 

 now in the modern Church, Protestantism 

 and Catholicism are to be reconciled under 

 the gentle spirit of St. John, the beloved 

 apostle, still tarrying till his Lord shall 

 come. The reunited Church, like the 

 bride in the Apocalypse, will then be pre- 

 pared and adorned for her husband. 



According to another and profounder 

 view, the problem of church unity has 

 simply come last in the logical evolution 

 of Christian doctrine. To each age of 

 Christianity has been given its own pro- 

 blems, to be solved and then left as pre- 

 mises to succeeding ages. The age of the 

 Greek fathers was occupied with the prob- 

 lems of theology, strictly so called, and 

 settled for all time the doctrines of the 

 trinity, creation and incarnation. The 

 next following age of the Latin fathers 

 was devoted to the problems of anthropol- 

 ogy, and denned the doctrines of original 

 sin, electing grace, regeneration. Then 



