Excerpt from Contentio Veritatis: Essays in Constructive Theology The beginning of the Twentieth Century finds the Church of England face to face with some very urgent problems. Of these the most clamorous, and perhaps the least important, is the controversy which rages round the Ornaments Rubric and kindred topics - the problem which the daily press has dignified by the title of "The Crisis in the Church." Those who take a wider view of the course of religious thought during the past century will not be disposed to treat these disputes about ritual quite so seriously. They will recognise that more pressing than any ritualistic controversy is a problem, or group of problems, which touches not the Anglican Communion only, but every Christian body. The acrimonious dispute between Natural Science and the old Orthodoxy, which agitated the last generation, is happily a thing of the past. No section of the Church that counts for much now denies the facts of geology, and Darwinism is no longer regarded as the foe of Christian faith. A great many of the clergy have accepted the principle of criticism, and are prepared to apply it with some boldness at least to the Old Testament. 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.