FAITH AND FREEDOM BEING CONSTRUCTIVE ESSAYS IN THE APPLICATION OF MODERNIST PRINCIPLES TO THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON MAR 23 1920 PREFACE IN August, 1916, the little book called "Faith or Fear?" was published under my editorship. It brought kindly letters to its Editor from Clergymen and laymen in many parts of the world, expressing a desire for a more detailed exposition of the way in which those who plead for a re-statement of the faith do in fact state the faith for themselves, and teach it to others. There was evidence that everywhere men were feeling at a loss. Old forms and formularies had for them largely become empty of meaning: yet never was there a greater realisation of the need of vital faith, or a more resolute desire to seek for it. So at length I decided that I must do what I could, aided as before by others of a like mind, to outline a more adequate answer to the various questions raised by different correspondents and reviewers than was possible in a series of letters to individual men and women. One of the contributors to "Faith or Fear?" had in the meantime tackled the fundamental question of the nature of Providence in the little volume called Providence and Faith," by W. S. Palmer (Macmillan 66 |