Excerpt from An Old Religion: A Study Mathew Arnold remarked that we cannot do Without Christianity and yet we cannot en dure it as it is. The Pauline, Calvanistic and anti-rational interpretations of Christian ity are not as popular to-day as some are apt to imagine, yet they form a large percentage of what is commonly called Christian thought and Christian teaching. The author of this essay seeks to disarm tradition of authority and so far as it is possible to rescue Christ ianty from the perils to which it has for 1800 years been exposed. No method of exegesis or no new rationale of interpretation is em ployed. Supernatural Christianity has lost its hold upon thoughtful minds and every where, by the testimony of human experience, the proof is positive that the church as the palladium of anti-christian doctrine or as the exponent of fetish revelations is her own destroyer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.