Chapter I: Forms and Backgrounds of Inherited Christianity 13

Certain Qualities Common to All Religions--Christianity Historically Organized Around a Transcendent God and a Fallen Humanity--The Incarnation; the Cross the Supreme Symbol of Western Theology--The Catholic Belief in the Authority of an Inerrant Church--The Protestant Church Made Faith the Key to Salvation--Protestantism and an Infallibly Inspired Bible--The Strength and Weakness of This Position--Evangelical Protestantism the Outcome--Individual Experience of the Believer the Keystone of Evangelical Protestantism--Readjustment of Both Catholic and Protestant Systems Inevitable.