Yet Humanitarianism Is Not A Purely Christian

The Sublimated Idealism Of The Enlightenment, The Spirit Of The League Of Nations And Of The United Nations Charter Have Not Proved Strong Enough To Control The Aggressive Dynamism Of Nationalism.

It Is The Religious Impulse Which Supplies The Cohesive Force Which Unifies A Society And A Culture... A Society Which Has Lost Its Religion Becomes Sooner Or Later A Society Which Has Lost Its Culture.

No Doubt Western Civilization Has In The Past Been Full Of Wars And Revolutions, And The National Elements In Our Culture, Even When They Were Ignored, Always Provided An Unconscious Driving Force Of Passion And Aggressive Self-assertion

The True Makes Of History Are The Spiritual Men Whom The World Knew Not, The Unregarded Agents Of The Creative Action Of The Spirit. The Supreme Instance Of This-the Key To The Christian Understanding Of History-is To Be Found In The Incarnation- The Presence Of The Maker Of The World In The World Unknown To The World. ... The Incarnation Is Itself In A Sense The Divine Fruit Of History-of The Fullness Of Time-and It Finds Its Extension And Completion In The Historic Life Of The Church.

We Must Recognize That We Are Living In An Imperfect World In Which Human And Superhuman Forces Of Evil Are At Work And So Long As Those Forces Affect The Political Behaviour Of Mankind There Can Be No Hope Of Abiding Peace.