THE NEW THEOLOGY.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43080, 11 April 1907, Page 4

THE NEW THEOLOGY.

(Since the Rev. R. J. Campbell, of the City Temple, London, electrified i the English religious world Iv the' original attitude he adopted on the tenets-of Christianity, :he has-been; [ooked at askance by leader's of theological thought who were formerly inclined to regard him in the light aif an apostle. He has made some extraordinary, statements to justify his position, but none is more extraordinary than one published with great reluctance, and without Comment, by Dr. Robertson Nicoll. Sin itself is a puest of God”—declares Mr Campbell —“a blundering quest, but a ciuest. for all that. -Thle man who got dead drunk last night did so 'because of the impulse within him. to break through the barriers of his limitations, to - express haimsalf and to realise the more abundant life. His self-indulgence just came to that; he wanted, if onlv for a brief hour, to live the larger life, to expand the . soul, to enter untrodden regions, and gather to himself new experiences. ■ That drunken debauch was a quest for life, a. quest for God. Men in tihiear sinful follies today, and their blank atheism, and their foul blasphemies, their trampling upon things thlajt fare beautiful and good, aTe engaged in this dim, blundering quest for God, whom to know is life eternal. The * roue you saw in Piccadilly last night, who went out to Corrupt innocence and to- wallow in filthiness ofthe flesh was engaged in his .blundering: quest for God.”