Stephanos Nirmalendu Ghosh Lectures 1931. The Pilgrimate of faith in the world of modern thoughts

fashion in a critical synthesis of empiricism and ratiOnalism, harmony of the a priori and the actual, of the rational with the extra-rational, of the universal with the unique. [...] would have been—nay, es—the very same God as many bearing anotW name have come to think of as essentially the God of the religious"14 THE PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH IN MODERN THOUGHT consciousness of Jesus, ideal, spiritual, and at the same time cosmic, transcendent, but immanent and to the eye of faith reveal- ed in the spirit of unselfish love and the humanitarian service of Jesus himself. [...] It would not be difficult, indeed, to match the 1` Papal Syllabus of Errors " issued by Pope Pius IX in 1864 with a Syllabics of Papal Errors, drawn largely from that document and from the above-mentioned decree of Pius X, sometimes called the " Papal Syllabus of Errors of 1907. " The former condemns the principles of civil and religious liberty and of the separation of Church and State, and assert [...] Our own opinions arc implicitly to bow before them. * At the present day this point of view is represented by the movement known as Fundamentalism,'' the first of whose " fundamentals is the proposition " that the Holy Spirit did so inspire, guide, and move the writers of the Holy Scriptures as to keep them from error. " With these words, taken from the records of the General Assembly of the Presb [...] Something like this is the situation of the tradkitionalist in relation to the dogmatist in religion, and it happens not infrequently that the dogmatist is hampered in the exercise of his mental freedom almost as much by the implicit faith of tiq Ms Hindu View of Life, p. 81. "86 THE PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH IN MODERN THOUGHT followers as is the traditionalist by the authoritativeness of his masters.