Based on what H. Shelton Smith wrote in a book, "Faith and Nature", Thompson recognizes that Bushnell is attributable to the development of four ideas:
1) the philosophy of divine immanence
2) the idea that regeneration is a natural process rather than the work of a supernatural agency
3) inherent goodness of the natural man (prompting Dr. D.C. Macintosh to say, "Bushnell did more than any other preacher to discredit the old-fashioned teaching, 'You must be born again")
4) the debilitating conception...of Jesus as an example, ... as a moral teacher, Jesus who is human as we are human, and divine in somewhat the same sense that all mankind is divine, a pure ethical comprehension of his person
Thus Thompson states, "To return to Horace Bushnell is impossible and, of course, not desirable.
1) the philosophy of divine immanence
2) the idea that regeneration is a natural process rather than the work of a supernatural agency
3) inherent goodness of the natural man (prompting Dr. D.C. Macintosh to say, "Bushnell did more than any other preacher to discredit the old-fashioned teaching, 'You must be born again")
4) the debilitating conception...of Jesus as an example, ... as a moral teacher, Jesus who is human as we are human, and divine in somewhat the same sense that all mankind is divine, a pure ethical comprehension of his person
Thus Thompson states, "To return to Horace Bushnell is impossible and, of course, not desirable.
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