t her spiritual vitality is by no means exhausted. Father
Tyrrell and such as he are nearer in spirit to the New Theology men
than are the latter to those Protestants who pin their faith to
external standards of belief. It is a curious but indisputable fact
that the most extreme anti-Romanist Protestants are themselves in the
same boat with Rome: they insist on the absolute necessity for external
authority in matters of belief and are unwilling to trust the
individual soul to recognise truth as it comes. In all the churches
those who believe in the religion of the Spirit should recognise one
another as brothers. In the church of England a large and increasing
band of men are looking in this direction and are making their
influence felt. Of these perhaps the most outstanding is Archdeacon
Wilberforce, but he is by no means alone. A movement has begun in the
Lutheran church. It has existed for a long time in French
Protestantism as represented by the late Auguste Sabatier and his
friend Reville. In the congregational and other evangelical churches
of England and America the same attitude is being taken by many who are
not even aware that the name New Theology is being applied to it. In
this country the movement in the free churches is typified by men like
the Rev. T. Rhondda Williams of Bradford. There are many Unitarians
who are preaching it; indeed, there are some who would assert that the
New Theology is only Unitarianism under another name. But, as I shall
hope to show, this is very far from being the case. It may or may not
be professed by exponents of Unitarianism, but it is not a surrender to
Unitarianism.

+The New Theology is spiritual socialism.+--The great social movement
which is now taking place in every country of the civilised world
toward universal peace and brotherhood and a better and fairer
distribution of wealth is really the same movement as that which in the
more distinctively religious sphere is coming to be called the New
Theology. This fact needs to be realised and brought out. The New
Theology is the gospel of the kingdom of God. Neither socialism nor
any other economic system will permanently save and lift mankind
without definitely recognised spiritual sanctions, that is, it must be
a religion. The New Theology is but the religious articulation of the
social movement. The word "theology" is almost a misnomer; it is
essentially a moral and spiritual movement, the recognition tha