The English Theological Library General Editor Frederic Relton, A.K.C. Vicar of St. Andrew's, Stoke Newington With General Introduction by Mandell Creighton, D.D., D.C.L., etc. Sometime Lord Bishop of London. A RELATION OF THE CONFERENCE BETWEEN WILLIAM LAUD Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury AND MR. FISHER THE JESUIT By the Command of KING JAMES With an Answer to such exceptions as CH. SIMPKINSON, M.A., BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD Stevens GENERAL INTRODUCTION THEOLOGY is concerned with setting forth the truth of God as He has revealed it in His Word to His Church. This truth needs new application to the conditions and circumstances-intellectual and social-of each generation. As various problems arise in the world of man, various aspects of God's truth receive additional emphasis and explanation. Theology grows according to the growth of human knowledge. It brings out of the treasure-house of Scripture "things new and old." A student of theology who wishes to gain accurate knowledge on any particular point, must refer to the time when that point was forced into prominence by some movement or tendency of thought. At such times men's minds, with the full force of their intelligence and their learning, were directed to the full investigation of a question which pressed for immediate solution. At such periods a subject was fully studied and thought out. It is only when we are in contact with minds to which these subjects were of vital importance that we feel their full significance. V |