THE INCARNATION
THE PROBLEM OF CHRIST IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by W. R. Matthews; Geoffrey Oxford University Press. English price, 7/6. R. MATTHEWS believes that the personality of Christ is the central problem of Christian doctrine, and that our approach to it must be influenced by contemporary ideas. In a short but stimulating essay he suggests possible lines of thought for a theology which would take notice of psychology, especially in its discovery of the unconscious, and also of such psychic phenomena as telepathy. One of his most interesting suggestions is that. an analogy may be found between inspiration, as known by the creative artist, and the consciousness of Christ, which he believes to have been in a state of continuous inspiration, undarkened by the intermittency of the
poet or writer. The theory could be criticised (there is ample evidence in the synoptic gospels that. Christ also felt a darkness of the soul comparable with the barren moods of the artist); but it is. linked credibly to Schleirmacher’s theory of "God-consciousness," and it is a useful attempt to find new grounds for theology in an age when little support can be expected from philosophers.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 623, 8 June 1951, Page 11
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195THE INCARNATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 623, 8 June 1951, Page 11
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