Sublime

Religion for the sake of man carries with it the position that man has to act as a mediator for his fellow-man. Religion for the sake of

Schleiermacher repudiated objective knowledge of God and then, like the romantics, reached down into his own being to find the grounding for his knowledge of God.30

B. B. Warfield’s

Melanchthon had begun to employ the notion of the so-called

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from everyday Christian life in community [Lebensgemeinschaft] may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; for in the poor sister or brother, Christ is knocking at the door.

“threefold division,”

Charles Hodge

In spite of all, however, psychoanalysis has a definite and valuable contribution for students of religion in our time. I say “in our time” because psychoanalysis is essentially a modern remedy for a modern ill; it exists for that period in human history for which the unconscious is a problem, and a problem it has been since man began to imagine th

Human beings are made for each other and no people can realize their full humanity except as they participate in its realization for others.