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About Leslie Weatherhead
Leslie Dixon Weatherhead (14 October 1893 β 5 January 1976) was an English Christian theologian in the liberal Protestant tradition. He served as minister of the City Temple, London, for nearly twenty-five years. He was author of numerous books, including Life Begins at Death, The Will of God, and Prescription for Anxiety, all published by Abingdon.
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βChristianity must have a marvelous inherent power or the churches would have killed it long ago.β
βIn the cases of nearly all of us, what our fathers were, we are, and we make up our reasons afterwards.β
βThere is no authority for Godβs existence except the inward conviction that is born of mystical experience.β
βThe factor that makes us question the authority of the expert is that we are personally emotionally involved in the result.β
βFor myself, I refuse mentally to close the canon as if inspiration had run out! Why should we follow traditional thought more than modern thought?β
βWe must seek another interpretation of the cross, and at the same time we must realize that the generations ahead will discard our interpretations.β
βI hold that the self-authentication of truth, or, in other words, seeing, is the authority, and the only authority there is in the field of religion.β
βIn my opinion, the strongest evidence of his sinlessness is that, if one had sinned, unless one were vicious, one would never let others think one sinless.β
βTrue, there are some great passages in Revelation, but the book on the whole is like boarding-school plum pudding, where the plums are scarce and far apart.β
βIn fact, many professing agnostics are nearer belief in the true God than are many conventional church-goers who believe in a body that does not exist whom they miscall God.β
βWe still make of prime importance matters about which Jesus said nothing. How can a matter be fundamental in a religion when the founder of the religion never mentioned it?β
βMy plea is not for an impossible subjectivism. But the so-called infallible church or book has no power unless I feel that what it says is true. And who can decide that but myself?β
βChristianity is a love relationship with Christ far belowβor above, if you likeβdifferences of belief or different ways of worshiping, far above differences of language or of color.β
β. . . I believe that the annihilation of even one soul spells a defeat of Godβs purposes, a denial of Christβs teaching and a closure of heaven against those who love the lost soul.β
About Leslie Weatherhead
Leslie Dixon Weatherhead (14 October 1893 β 5 January 1976) was an English Christian theologian in the liberal Protestant tradition. He served as minister of the City Temple, London, for nearly twenty-five years. He was author of numerous books, including Life Begins at Death, The Will of God, and Prescription for Anxiety, all published by Abingdon.