Retrospective for Today

“It could, I think, be claimed that the drawing together of the main Christian communions through renewed attempts to interpret the books of the Bible in contemporary language and through efforts to express the major traditions of worship in modern symbolic forms has been the most encouraging feature within the Christian scene since 1944. ... The two most pressing problems which have confronted theologians over the past quarter of a century have been those created, first, by the desire awakened in the hearts of all peoples to acquire scientific knowledge and to attain a standard of material living which it promises, and, secondly, by the emergence of a multiplicity of new nations each of which seeks to glory in its own cultural tradition and often to view it as rooted in a particular religious faith.”

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