The Social Teaching of Jesus: An Essay in Christian Sociology (Classic Reprint)
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In the other sense in which the name of a science is used such criticism is less appropriate. The moment an investigator attempts to formu late his results in propositions, that moment he injects-into them his own predilections. While the method of investigation may be morally neu tral, the statement and the application of its re sults may be largely tinged with ethics. This is less obvious in the case of physical sciences, but admittedly true of the social. Thus in a true sense there may be a Christian view of history, and, so to Speak, a Christian science of history. This is even more evident in the case of philosophy. In the sense, therefore, of the formulation and application of results derived by Christian students, a sociology may be said to be Christian.
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The Woman Citizen's Library, Vol. 5 of 12: A Systematic Course of Reading in Preparation for the Larger Citizenship; Practical Politics (Classic Reprint)
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Political, educational, and religious causes also work sometimes to develop cities, as in the case of national capitals, university towns, and cities like Salt Lake City, Zion City, etc.
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Select Mediaeval Documents And Other Material Illustrating The History Of Church And Empire, 754 A. D. 1254 A. D (Classic Reprint) (Latin Edition)
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While otherwise only those Peaces and treaties have been selected that closed an important struggle or marked a decided advance in the relations between the Popes and Emperors, the Peace of Constance has been added in an appendix because of its great importance in the history of the Italian cities. In general, how ever, only such selections have been admitted as illus trate the causes and growth of the three main issues.
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A History of New Testament Times in Palestine, 175 B.C. ? 70 A.D.
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Mathew's A History of New Testament Times in Palestine, 175 B.C. – 70 A.D. is a fascinating history of the region before and after the Roman conquest and their defeat of the Jews.
Scientific Management in the Churches (Classic Reprint)
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Scientific management is a working philosophy which by no means necessitates in its followers a knowledge of the details of the business to which it is applied. In order to apply its principles, for instance, to the manufacture of paper, it is not necessary that, in the beginning, the efficiency engineer should know anything about paper mills. A capacity to under stand actual conditions and to study them in the light of certain definite rules is what the efficiency program demands. Mrf'ii Frederick W. Taylor, one of the two chief representatives of the system, never tires Of insisting that scientific management is not mere speeding up, but is a practical philosophy destined to replace haphazard.
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A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics (Classic Reprint)
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A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics is designed to be the ultimate reference book for religious students and scholars, edited by Shailer Mathews and Gerald Smith.
From "Ab, Ninth Of" to "Zwingli, Huldreich", this dictionary contains thousands of terms of importance in religion and ethics. While Biblical terms seem to make up the largest component of this reference guide, Christian words are by no means the sole focus of the dictionary. What the editors refer to as "important terms used in primitive and foreign religions" are also included in this collection. While the words of non-Christian religions are not as prevalent as Christian words in A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics, the world's religions are still mostly well represented.
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The Messianic Hope in the New Testament, Vol. 12 (Classic Reprint)
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The Commercial Environment of Early Christianity. I. Concerning Wealth: The teaching Of J csus - Charity Suspicion of the rich - The influence of eschatology. II. Concerning the State The teaching of Jesus and the practice of the early church - Temporal character of apostolic political teaching - Eschatological expecta tion versus Christian life.
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The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
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The World to-Day, Vol. 10: A Monthly Record of Human Progress; Containing the Latest Information on History, Science, Philosophy, Literature, ... Art, Etc.; From December 1, 1905-June 1, 1906
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Shailer Mathews was born on May 26, 1863 in Portland, Maine. He was the eldest of four children of Baptist parents, Jonathan Bennett Mathews and Sophia Lucinda (Shailer) Mathews. His father, a wholesale flour and tea merchant, was descended from James Mathews, who came from Gloucestershire, England, to Charlestown, Massachussets, in 1634. Later members of the family moved to Maine. One of his mother's forebears, Daniel Hascall, was a founder of the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York (later Colgate University), and the boy's maternal grandfather, William H. Shailer, was a prominent Baptist minister in Portland.
Education
Shailer Mathews had to drop out of high school for a time to work in his father's office when the business went into receivership in 1878, but he later attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and received the A. B. degree in 1884. More out of family tradition than from any strong sense of religious vocation, he then entered the Newton (Massachussets) Theological Institution, a Baptist seminary, from which he graduated in 1887.
Career
Mathews was licensed but never sought ordination or committed himself to the ministry; like many of his generation who responded to the new interest in historical and social studies, he felt better suited to nonpastoral activity. Deciding to become a teacher, he secured a position at Colby as associate professor of rhetoric. In 1889 he became professor of history and political economy, and the following spring he was granted a year's leave to study at the University of Berlin. In Germany, Mathews studied history, focusing on the struggle between Church and Empire from the Carolingians to the Hohenstaufens, a study that resulted in the publication of his first book, Select Mediaeval Documents (1892). His interest in social forces later found reflection also in his book The French Revolution (1901). On his return to Colby, Mathews continued to teach history and economics. In the latter field he was influenced by the social conception of economic problems set forth by Richard T. Ely. He also did some reading in the emerging field of sociology under the guidance of a close friend and colleague at Colby, Albion W. Small, who in 1892 left to head the sociology department at the new University of Chicago. Small planned to have Mathews join his department; but in 1894 Ernest DeWitt Burton invited Mathews to become associate professor of New Testament history and interpretation at Chicago, and after some hesitation over his lack of training, he accepted. Thus Mathews returned to the religious field he thought he had left behind him and began his long tenure at the University of Chicago and its Divinity School. He became professor in 1897 and, in 1906, professor of historical and comparative theology. Two years later he was made dean of the Divinity School, an office he filled with distinction until his retirement in 1933. From 1903 to 1911 he edited the World To-day, a Chicago journal concerned with political and social trends, and from 1913 to 1920 he was editor of the Biblical World. He also served for many summers as director of religious work at the Chautauqua Institution. Mathews was active in the interdenominational missions of Chicago-area churches, particularly as president of the Chicago Church Federation (1929 - 32) and as chairman, for many years, of its Inter-racial Commission. A strong ecumenist, he was president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America (1912 - 16) and an active participant in international church gatherings. He joined Sidney L. Gulick in a "Christian embassy" to Japan in 1915, and attended the Universal Conference on Christian Life and Work in Stockholm in 1925 and the Lausanne Conference on Faith and Order in 1927. His death, resulting from an embolism, occurred in Chicago in 1941. His body was cremated and the ashes interred in the crypt of the First Unitarian Church, near the University of Chicago.
Achievements
Mathews's enduring intellectual legacy lies in his sociohistorical method of interpreting doctrine and his popularization of "modernism" as a cultural adaptation, conserving the essence of Christianity.
Mathews remained a dedicated Baptist; he praised the democratic principles by which that denomination operated, and was elected president, in 1915, of the Northern Baptist Convention formed largely through his efforts.
Views
He caught the enthusiasm of the new university and helped shape its early development, both through personal counsel and through an active role in faculty and administrative bodies. Theologically, his efforts, in collaboration with colleagues, led to the Divinity School's becoming a center of "modernism" and to the development of a "Chicago school" of theology. Mathews brought to his work as a theologian a sociohistorical approach derived from his earlier study and teaching. He viewed Christianity not as a body of truth but as a religious movement subject to social forces; a study of the evolution of Christian doctrine ought therefore to begin with its social background. His first statement of this view appeared as an article in the Biblical World in October 1915, "Theology and the Social Mind, " in which he argued that Christianity in its historical development had passed through a series of doctrinal formulations, in response to the dominant cultural perspective or "social mind" of the period.
Each "social mind, " he held, provided analogies which facilitated the assimilation of new meaning to an inherited body of Christian understanding, to which he gave the term "generic Christianity. " These doctrinal formulations, in turn, tended to become hardened with time; hence new ideas met continual resistance. As he himself observed, his view substituted a functional norm, implying relativity and efficiency in adapting to new insight and circumstances, for inspired authority which brooked no such concessions to time and change. He elaborated his thesis in subsequent articles and in four books: The Faith of Modernism (1924), The Atonement and the Social Process (1930), The Growth of the Idea of God (1931), and his 1933 Barrows Lectures in India, Christianity and Social Process (1934). A theologian, Mathews believed, should be attuned to modern scientific thought and concerned with contemporary problems. His own commitment to the social gospel, originally stirred by the writings of Washington Gladden and Josiah Strong, was the stimulus to much of his activity. At the suggestion of Albion Small, then editor of the American Journal of Sociology, Mathews wrote a series of articles on "Christian Sociology, " published in book form as The Social Teaching of Jesus (1897). This was acknowledged by Walter Rauschenbusch as the pioneer work in stating the biblical basis of the social gospel movement. Mathews's importance in this area is indicated by his election as president of the Western Economic Society (1911 - 19), organized by a group of socially motivated economists. Despite his gradual abandonment of many traditional Christian views, Mathews remained a staunch supporter of the church, not as an ecclesiastical power but as the one body which could and must guide the readjustment of values in modern industrialized society. In pursuing this end, he insisted, the church must develop "methods of gaining help from God. "His commitment to the social role of the churches was tested but unshaken by the catastrophe of the First World War, and he defended the optimism of the social gospel against the rising criticism of postwar modes of neo-orthodoxy. Nevertheless, he shared the view emerging in that postwar era that the romance of social gospel preaching had spent itself, and that its message should now be implemented in direct efforts at social organization and action. As a Modernist, Mathews continued to emphasize process and experience as against revelation and metaphysics, as did many liberals before him; but in doing so he adopted an increasingly scientific tone and vocabulary that caused his thought to diverge from that of evangelical liberals. While he playfully ridiculed the "Jesus" to whom appeal had been made in the theologies of the previous generation of liberals as "a mid-Victorian" who endorsed "any idealism provided it was polite, " he nevertheless retained in his own theology an appeal to Jesus as the one who provided a rallying point for Christianity as a social movement, and who, in himself, exemplified a way of living that cohered both with the legacy of Christian faith and with the "way of the universe" when this is rightly and profoundly understood. In giving substance to such an appeal, he drew upon the social ideals expressed in the Sermon on the Mount, as the inspiration for Christian altruism and "the intelligent democratizing of privilege. " Under Mathews's direction, the University of Chicago Divinity School engaged in a crusade to educate the public in a critical understanding of religion and the Bible. With the endorsement of President Harper, the university gave extension courses, issued pamphlets through the American Institute of Sacred Literature, and published Bible handbooks. Mathews contributed to this public education through his addresses to clubs and organizations and through articles in popular magazines.
Because Mathews considered his sociohistorical method to be applicable and helpful to all Christians, liberal or conservative, in pointing up the appeal to the Christian witness and Christian living in the modern world, he, unlike many liberals, evangelical or modernist, sought to reach all groups within the Christian community, regardless of denominational or creedal differences. Thus his modernism was irenic rather than combative. Yet he continually provoked attack among conservative groups by the uncompromising tenor of his presentation, which seemed to be directed more toward social reform and social progress than toward the business of saving souls. Nevertheless, he worked easily with many conservatives, cooperating with them on projects of common interest, and succeeded in averting open clashes between the "modernists" and "fundamentalists" within his denomination.
Quotations:
"If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing. "
"Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong. "
"When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. "
"An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half. "
Personality
Mathews was a man of commanding presence, energetic and decisive. He could be abrupt and demanding, but he was commonly gracious. He smiled readily and was known for his apt, penetrating wit.
Connections
On July 16, 1890, before sailing, he married Mary Philbrick Elden of Waterville. Three children were born to them: Robert Elden, Helen, and Mary.
