AND CULTURE: Their Mutual Relations. BY DR. GUSTAV WARNECK, PASTOR AT ROTHENSCHIRMBACH, NEAR EISLEBEN. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY THOMAS SMITH, D.D., PROFESSOR OF EVANGELISTIC THEOLOGY, NEW COLLege, edinburgh. EDINBURGH: JAMES GEMMELL, GEORGE IV. BRIDGE. 1883. 133. 170.. CONTENTS. I. STATE OF THE QUESTION. Similarity between Fashions and Cant-words. "Culture as a Cant-word. The "Culture War." Christianity the chief among the Culture Forces of the World. Hence the Opposition to Christianity as an Enemy to Culture a Contradiction. The Biblical Faith not a Conquered Position. Proof from the facts of Missions. What is Culture? Distinction between Culture and Civilization. The Modern Conception of Culture without Morality. The Religion of the Present (Secularism) not the best Nurse of Culture. Godliness has the Promise of the Present and the Future Life. No Morality without Religion. As is Religion so is Morality; and as is the Cultus so is the Culture No Appeal for Pardon for Missions on Account of their Cultural Importance. The Object of Christianity and of Missions. Culture an Additional Gift. How far the Proof of the Cultural Importance of Missions forms an Apology for them. The Mutual Relations between Missions and Culture. A Complicated Question. The Value of Proof-Materials. Partizanship for and against. Unreliableness of Hostile Reports. Division by ten. Hatred of Christianity. The Eye influenced by the Heart. Scientific Spectacles. Blindness. Dissatisfaction with the Disappearance of the pura naturalia, Nudities. Trustworthiness of the Missionary Authorities. Criticism and Confirmation of them The Three Principal Mission-Periods in their various relations to Culture. The Cultural Superiority of the Present Day, especially of Modern Missions. Concurrence of Manifold Culture-Factors. Characteristic Peculiarity of the Mission as a Culture-Factor. Distinction of the Cultural Influence of PAGE 12 32 381 |