The Atonement and The Modern Mind

Accordingly when we speak of the Atonement and the modern mind we are really speaking of the modern mind and the Christian religion. The relation between these two magnitudes may vary. The modern mind is no more than a modification of the human mind as it exists in all ages and the relation of the modern mind to the Atonement is one phase—it may be a specially interesting or a specially well-defined phase—of the perennial relation of the mind of man to the truth of God. There is always an affinity between the two for God made man in His own image and the mind can only rest in truth; but there is always at the same time an antipathy for man is somehow estranged from God and resents Divine intrusion into his life.