4. But have they gone? What resemblances are there between the world to-day (in the West and in the East) and the problem of the Church to-day and the Roman world and the problem of the Church then?
5. It was often remarked in India that, point by point, the writer's description of religion in the Roman world is true to the letter of Hinduism to-day. Work out this parallel. (See Dr J. N. Farquhar, Crown of Hinduism and Modern Religious Movements in India.)
CHAPTER X
1. "It is the heart that makes the theologian." Where does your theology come from?
2. The doctrine of the Atonement has often been stated as an attempt to reconcile Jesus and an un-Christian conception of God. "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself." "The Cross is the revelation in time of what God is always." Discuss.
3. What are the three ways of answering the question: "Who and what is this Jesus Christ?" Why must people make up their minds about him?
4. Does the writer make Jesus too human? Or has the reading of this book made you feel his divinity more strongly just because he was so perfectly human?
FOOTNOTES
[1] The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire, p. 157.
[2] "We are nothing; Christ alone is all."