THREE DISCOURSES DELIVERED
AT NEW HAVEN, CAMBRIDGE

AND ANDOVER

WITH A PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION ON

LANGUAGE

BY

HORACE BUSHNELL

Centenary Edition

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1910

COPYRIGHT, 1876, BY

MARY A. BUSHNELL

CONTENTS.

1. PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION.

LANGUAGE AS RELATED TO THOUGHT AND SPIRIT. Origia

of Language. Formation of Grammar. Views of others.

Two departments in language. Applications of the doc-

trine.

PAGH

Reason of types or figures. Words of thought

indeterminate. A false element in words of thought.

Etymologies to be studied. Opposing words necessary.

The logical method deceitful. Interpretation. Language

insufficient for the uses of dogma. Creeds and confessions.

How a writer becomes intelligible. Facilities of perverse

criticism. Effects of a right view of language. Intro-

ductory..

9-117

II. DISCOURSE AT NEW HAVEN

THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST. Orthodox views of Christ

and the Trinity. Trinity involved in the process of

Revelation. God Absolute. Incidents of the revealing

process. The Logos or Word of God. Incarnation.

Trinity. Conclusion.

III. DISCOURSE AT CAMBRIDGE.

119-181

THE ATONEMENT. Doctrine stated from the scriptures.
The Protestant views stated and discussed. Subjective

doctrine. Christ a perfect character. Christ as the Word

of God. Christ dissolves the law of social evil. Christ

brings light, opens eternity, assists our struggles. Justi-

fication wanted. Assured to us in Christ. Prepared in

How prepared. The double administration of law

us.

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and grace.
Sin finally vanquished by the submission of

Jesus. The incarnation viewed in its objects. Subjective

view concluded. Objective view and its grounds. Judaism

externally objective. Christianity internally. Religion as

in art. The subjective view translated into the objective,

becomes a vicarious religion. The objective view instituted

by God. Christianity incomplete without the Altar Form.

Comprehensiveness of the doctrine. How to be preached.

Conclusion

183-275

IV. DISCOURSE AT ANDOVER.

DOGMA AND SPIRIT; OR THE TRUE REVIVING OF RELIGION.

Christianity displaces the Pharisaic dogma. Enters the

world as spirit and life. Lapses next into dogma. Con-

sequent discord and corruption. The Reformation a par-

tial remedy. The reviving of revivals insufficient. Dogma

and spirit distinguished. Province and uses of Christian

theology. Causes of the lapse into dogma. Resulting

benefits of the same. Theological capacities of dogma.

The head and the heart. The Christian ministry. Plat-

forms and Articles. Piety itself limited by dogma. The

Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Christ. Conclusion... 277-356

PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION

ON THE NATURE OF

LANGUAGE,

AS RELATED TO

THOUGHT AND SPIRIT.