The Way, The Truth, The Life: The Hulsean Lectures For 1871 (cambridge Library Collection - Religion)

Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892) gave the Cambridge Hulsean lectures in November and December of 1871. First published posthumously in 1893, with minor revisions, these lectures are built around a sustained meditation on John 14: 5-6. They represent Hort's defence of the continuing relevance of Christianity in an increasingly science-focused world where religion was no longer the sole arbitrator of 'truth'. These lectures are a direct response to the development of Historical Criticism and the aftermath of the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Hort argues that confidence in the 'truth' of Christianity can only lead to a championship of science and other non-theological methods of inquiry for ultimately 'all knowledge ministers to the knowledge of the highest'. Hort's lectures are a key work of Anglican theology addressing the issue, still pressing over a century later, of religion's relationship with science. Cover......Page 1 Frontmatter......Page 8 PREFATORY NOTE......Page 12 Contents......Page 22 INTRODUCTION......Page 34 Dedication......Page 45 The Way, the Truth, the Life......Page 46 LECTURE I - THE WAY......Page 48 LECTURE II - THE TRUTH......Page 86 LECTURE III - THE LIFE......Page 140 LECTURE IV - `NO MAN COMETH TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME'......Page 195 APPENDIX......Page 214 This work of Victorian Anglican theology sheds light on nineteenth-century Christian thought and modern debates on science and religion