If Jesus Did Not Die Upon The Cross – Ernest Brougham Docker

If Jesus Did Not Die Upon The Cross – Ernest Brougham Docker

Such is Eucken’s position, and there is widespread agreement with his point of view. Much of the
embodiment of Christianity is alien to its essence and irrelevant to its spirit. . . . Those who feel
that the Virgin Birth and the Ascension to Heaven are vital to the Faith are rapidly becoming fewer.
Also those who feel that the physical resurrection and the nature miracles of Christ are essential to
the Christian position are gradually diminishing in number; while a good deal of credal doctrine is
simply and finally obsolete. Certainly Christianity can be isolated from much of its dogmatic formula-
tion without any loss of value, nay, with an increase of purity and relevancy. But how far can we
safely carry the process? . . . The hope of the situation is in the newer and bolder Protestantism.
It must insist at all costs upon vitality in its truth, modernity in its spirit, relevancy in its message, and
spirituality in its life. It may abandon much, providing it continues to build upon the one true founda-
tion. And the foundation of Christianity is not merely spirit, but the Holy Spirit, not merely God,
but God in Christ.”