Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Creed and the Creeds: Their Function in Religion, Being the Bampton Lectures of 1911
It may be only another instance of that illusion of Greatness, which seizes every age and every student of his own age; but to this student of our time it does seem that the time is great. It is in travail with a birth, magnum incrementum, a new vision of Faith and of the Fortune of Man; a vision to which creeds and their interpretations, in common with all human forms of sound words, ' are more inadequate than in our humility already we confess them.
For the churchmen of to-day this travail-hour, as all such hours, inspires hopes for the Church or else fears, according to the temperament and the measure of faith.' It may be that, in the total consciousness of our communion, the pulse of fear beats at this moment louder than the pulse of hope. The more is the reason that, if for any one the happier note is the more insis tent on the car, he should make report of what he hears himself.
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