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John Bascom's Complete Works

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John Bascom Prophet

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Introduction - The Man - The Conflict Between Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dr. Bascom's Time - Dr. Bascom's Contention that Mechanical Evolution is incomplete - Spiritual Evolution and the Modification of Religious Beliefs Resulting from this Conception - Constructive Realism / Science of Mind / "unity of mind and matter" / "the world is the product of God's thought" / The Solution of Philosophical and Religious Problems - Dr. Bascom and Present Thought - Contents -


Chapter 4 - IV. - Dr. Bascom's Concept of Spiritual Evolution and the Modification of Religious Beliefs Resulting from this Conception - p. 20

The conception of evolution has not only caused a very radical modification in all branches of thought --- scientific, philosophical and religious --- but it has itself undergone a revolutionary change in the comparatively short period since the doctrine has been regarded as established. It was believed to have started as a doctrine destructive of faith and now appears as a chief bulwark of faith. Darwin himself tended to an agnostic position on account of the inconsistency between the physical facts of the world and the old theology. Today the new theology reconciles the physical facts of the world with a supreme, pervasive, personal, spiritual presence, immanent in the world. Evolution as announced by Spencer is the development of

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