For theory and practice, speculation and life, cannot be separated.

We cannot begin to explain Jesus until we know how men and women are transformed by the love of Christ constraining them.
Those to whom religion is external and worship formal are of necessity pretentious or arid in speaking of such matters as the Person of Christ or the value of creeds.
We do not affirm that the Lord's Person and work have been central in Christianity in the past.

There is much to be said for the view that they were, from the end of the second century to the close of the Middle Ages, concealed beneath alien ideas derived from the mystery religions; that the Reformation was the hammer which broke the husk within which, under God's providence, the kernel had been preserved during the decline and eclipse of European civilisation.
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