To My Fatber

THE REV. ALBERT NEWTON KEIGWIN, D. D.
Pastor of West Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, Delaware

WHOSE INTELLECTUAL ACUMEN, WISE COUNSEL, BROAD
SYMPATHY AND CONSTANT PRAYER

DELIVERED ME FROM THOSE DOUBTINGS THAT OBTAIN
DURING THE TRYING PERIOD OF ACADEMIC

AND SEMINARY TRAINING

This Book is Dedicated

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Contents

CHAPTER I

THE HEART SIDE OF GOD

Is Catholicity Possible? Difficulties and Remedies. Christ
the Central Figure. Testimony of Revelation and Ex-
perience. Testimony of History. Testimony of Lit-
erature. Several Christs. Must Find THE Christ.
One View Point. One Common Ground. The His-
torical Christ. We are Drifting Away from the Real
Christ. Showing the Drift. The Mystical Christ.
Rationalistic Mysticism. This Line of Thought is
Fascinating. A Source of Danger. Orthodoxy Must
not Commit Suicide. We Must Find the Essential
Idea of Christ. It is not His Humanity. Humanity
Necessary to Redemption. His Teachings not Es-
sential. Miracles not Essential. His Moral Perfec-
tion not Essential. What is the Essential Idea? A
Base Line, the Cross. A Brief History. Identify
Christ by His Wounds on Earth

CHAPTER II

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REASON AND ETERNAL TRUTH-THE HEART SIDE OF GOD

Evil

The Search for Truth. Philosophic Limitations. Fallibility

of Reason. An Inconsistency of Rationalism.

Effect of Rationalism. Personality. Locke Hints at

the Real Personality. Love Exists Prior to Con-

sciousness. This is the Teaching of Scripture. In

Childhood. The Spiritual Side of Man is Distinct

from the Intellectual. Generation is after Its Kind.

Independent Heart Categories. The Mind of Christ

was His Heart. Scriptural Testimony. A Practical

Deduction. This is not Superstition. An Illustra-

tion

CHAPTER III

THE COLD HAND AND THE DEAD HEART

Philosophy and Religion. Philosophy has Always Been

Destructive. Religion not the Only Bigot. Philoso-

phy is Self-Centred. A Finite Hand, Describing an

Infinite Circle. Men Must Accept Revelation. Phi-

losophy of Heathen Parentage. Independence a De-

lusion. Searching for What is not Lost. Full of

Uncertainties. A Strange Lack of Wisdom Among

the Wise. A Lack of Reverence. The Greatest Wis-

dom is Foolishness with God. Our Debt to Philoso-

phy. The Bible is the Only Text-Book.

Concepts Distinct from Heart Concepts

INTERLUDE

SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON

Mental

Philosophy a Tyrant. Footnote. Hamilton a Natural

Metaphysician. The Father of True Philosophy .

CHAPTER IV

THE HEART IS QUEEN

Heart the Chief Attribute of Deity and Man. The Fal-

lacy of DesCartes. Education can Never Regenerate.

The Heart Alone is Queen. "Thus Far Shalt Thou

Go." The Heart is Queen of the Moral Nature and

Will. Our Lord's Diagnosis. The Will has Its

Master. The Soul's Chief Gateway. How Accessi-

ble is Man

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