The Reasonableness of the Christian Faith [antikvár]

PREFACE TO FIFTH EDITION The present edition of this volume is practically a reprint of the third and fourth, save for certain changes, mainly verbal, in the Epilogue which the course of events has made necessary. It has become plainer than ever with the lapse of time that the root of the whole spiritual malady of Christendom is a defective idea of God. ' A nation,' said Hegel, ' which has a false or bad conception of God has also a bad state, bad government, bad laws.' Truer words were never written. What is true of a nation is true, also, of that commonwealth of nations which we call Christendom. False and defective ideas of God have unchained the demons of fear and greed which are the mark of the beast in man, and fear and greed are causing the unrest of the world to-day. The converse of Hegel's