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Excerpt from Christianity and the Social Order
The following pages constitute an attempt to show the correspondence between the principles of Christianity and those of modem Socialism - Socialism in the best sense of the term. They are written from the point of view of one who believes that the movement reprobated by the Pope on the one hand, and dogmatic Protestantism on the other, under the name of modernism really represents a return to the primitive Christian evangel, freed from its limitations and illusions. The present writer regards this spiritual movement, for such it is, as destined to rescue the true Christianity from ecclesiasticism in its various forms. In the process it may work the overthrow of the Churches as we have them now - that is, religious organisations held together by dogmatic statements of belief rather than by the perception of a practical end to be attained. It is herein maintained that the practical end which alone could justify the existence of Churches is the realisation of the Kingdom of God, which only means the reconstruction of society on a basis of mutual helpfulness instead of strife and competition.
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