CONTENTS 



LECTURE I 



MODERN DIFFICULTIES 



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Difficulties of faith, now wide-spread, are inevitable ... i 

 The subject and plan of these lectures 6 



I. Causes of Modern Difficulties 



(a) Enlargement of knowledge 8 



(b) Development of criticism and of the critical temper . . 9 



(c) Doctrinal conflicts between "the Churches" .... 10 

 To surrender particular doctrines, really catholic, in order to 



save the rest, is unnecessary, futile, and perilous ... 10 



II. Forms of Attack 



(a) Rationalism in biblical criticism 12 



(6) Pantheism 16 



The supernatural 19 



(c) Naturalism 21 



Agnosticism connected therewith 22 



III. The Function, Methods, and Limitations of Sciences 



The nature and range of sciences 26 



Intersecting specialties of particular sciences, and the necessity 



of co-ordinating their conclusions 28 



Sciences are progressive, their hypotheses provisional ... 32 



The proper attitude of theologians towards physical hypotheses 34 



LECTURE II 



THE EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 



Resume and introduction 37 



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