The Works of Orestes a Brownson, Vol. 7: Collected and Arranged (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Henry F. Brownson

 
9781331136699: The Works of Orestes a Brownson, Vol. 7: Collected and Arranged (Classic Reprint)

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From Brownson s Quarterly Review for 1849-1851, I. OKTHODOXY AND HERESY IDENTICAL. Dk. Bushnell is the pastor of a Congregational parish in Hartford, Connecticut, professing what are called in New England Orthodox doctrines. He has produced considerable excitement for the last five or six years, and is just now one of our principal lions. He is certainly not without influence, and we are assured that he carries with him a large portion of his own denomination, and is followed, it is said, by the larger part of the younger Congregational ministers. The New Englander the organ of the New Haven school, accepts his views, and A ndover, we are told, adopts them as explicitly as it can, without forfeiting its funds. The indications now are, that the Bushnellites will either divide the Congregational body into two sects of nearly equal strength, or that they will leaven the whole lump with their peculiar views, change essentially the character of New England theology, and virtually obliterate the last traces of New England Calvinism. Such are the indications; but what the result will actually prove to be, we by no means venture to predict, though the latter alternative seems to us the more probable. We have discovered little that is new in Dr. Bushnell sviews, little with which we were not in former years perfectly familiar, or which has not had for a long time a large number of adherents both at home and abroad. He is evidently dissatisfied with all the recognized forms of Protestantism, and desirous of hitting upon something which shall dissolve and recombine them all in a new and far more comprehensive form, or rather no-form, in which all men shall unite, however divided and mutually hostile they may be in their mere doctrinal statements. He thinks this end is attainable without the labor of clearing away any false doctrine, Qod in Ghnst. Three discourses deliv
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