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The first three of these Essays have been separately published before. As they here appear they have been revised and considerably extended. The Essays have not been written for specialists, nor for professional unbelievers, but solely to relieve some of the difficulties under which popular religious thought labors because of misunderstanding. I ndeed, the entire volume might be described as an aid to progressive orthodoxy, or as an attempt to combine the new theology with the old religion. That the future as well as the past belongs to the old religion I am perfectly sure. This religion has often been ignorantly and inadequately conceived, and even caricatured at times by its disciples, but it has the advantage over all its competitors and proposed substitutes of heing alive; and life counts for much in organic history, spiritual as well as physical. At the same time the old religion may need a new theology for its better expression and formulation, and in this sense a new theology may be a valuable aid to the old religion. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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He was born in Leonardville on January 14, 1847. He was one of six children of upright parents raised in rural New Jersey, near what is today called Atlantic Highlands. Notably, the father, Joseph Bowne was a Justice of the Peace, a farmer, a Methodist preacher and a vocal abolitionist at a time when such a stance was controversial. The mother was of a Quaker family and also an abolitionist.
After graduating from New York University in 1871, Bowne continued his studies in Germany, where he was influenced by the idealism of Hermann Lotze, a philosophy Bowne was to develop in a form called personalism.
In his theory of reality, the infinite person, God, creates finite persons, endowing them with limited free will. His ethical purpose is that persons may become co-creators of a moral society governed by mutual respect and loyalty to God. God is in nature, and nature expresses God, but God's being and purpose transcend the natural order. Persons do not overlap with each other or with God, and they can fulfill their natures only when they control sense and appetite in accordance with reason and love. Bowne's own vigor as a man and teacher gained him many personal friends, and his thought would have gained more recognition had he not remained aloof from professional philosophical circles. He taught metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of religion at Boston University in its school of theology from 1867 to the day of his death, April 1, 1910. He was the first dean of the university's graduate school. Among Bowne's more influential pupils were George A. Coe; Bishop Francis McConnell; Arthur T. Flewelling, founder and editor emeritus of The Personalist; Albert C. Knudson, dean of the Boston University School of Theology, who gave systematic expression to a personalistic Christian theology; and Edgar Sheffield Brightman, whose Person and Reality (1958) gives creative and systematic expression to a personalistic world view. Bowne himself wrote many articles and nineteen books, the most important of which are Theism (1902), Principles of Ethics (1892), Metaphysics (rev. ed. , 1898), and Personalism (1908).
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