Excerpt from The New World
The first thing needful is to know the actual world in which we live, the conditions that help or hinder the Christian message, the forces that must be allowed to shape that message before it can be applied to the clamant needs of our age. This book attempts to estimate these forces which are creating the unrest, in order that we may make the adjustment which will bring back to religion the days of its power. The first four chapters were written for Every body's Magazine. This has conditioned the style of the book, and the author is grateful that he has been compelled to avoid technical language, which can be a snare to the writer as well as an obscurity to the reader. It is also a hopeful sign of the times that such a great popular magazine should open its pages to a serious discussion of religion.
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Hugh Black was a Scottish-American theologian and author.
Black was born on March 26, 1868 in Rothesay, Scotland. He received a Master of Arts degree from Glasgow University in 1887, and studied divinity at Free Church College in Glasgow from 1887 until 1891. Black was ordained in 1891 and became associate pastor at St. George's Free Presbyterian Church in Edinburgh in 1896, where he worked with Alexander Whyte.
Black emigrated to the United States in 1906 to accept the position of chair of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He received honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from Yale University in 1908 and from Princeton University and Glasgow University in 1911, and later accepted a position of pastor of the First Congregational Church in Montclair, New Jersey. Black retired from Union Theological Seminary in 1938.
Black also authored numerous books and sermons.
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