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Excerpt from The Atonement and the Modern Mind From two sources. Either the mind is pre occupied with a conception of the world which, whether men are conscious of it or not, forecloses all the questions which are raised by any doctrine of atonement, and makes them unmeaning; or it labours under some misconception as to what the New Tes tament actually teaches. Broadly speaking, the first of these conditions is considered in the first two chapters, and the second in the last. The title Tko Atonement and tko Modern Mind - might seem to promise a treatise, or even an elaborate system of theol ogy; but though it would cover a work of vastly larger scope than the present, it is not inappropriate to'any attempt, however humble, to help the mind in which we all live and move to reach a sympathetic comprehension of the central truth in the Christian religion. The purpose of the writer is evangelic, what ever may be said oi his method; it is to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.