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Show PREDICTS DEATH OE CHRISTIAN RELIGION DR. FOSTER SAYS WORLD WILL BE MORE CHRISTIAN THEN. Professor of Philosophy of Religion In University of Chicago Provokes Storm of Criticism. Chicago, March 29. Dr. George Bur-man Bur-man Foster, professor of tho philosophy philoso-phy of religion at tho University ot Chicago, who aroused a 6torm of criticism crit-icism by his book, "The Finality ot Christian Religion," has a new book now in press which is still more radical. radi-cal. He has made public a chapter or it in the form of a sermon entitled. "The Place of Jesus In the Religion of Modern Man." Ho speaks of Christianity as a religion relig-ion which in time to come may die as other religions have died, and yet the world at that time, he said, will be more Christian than It Is now. bven Jesus, Himself, If now on earth, he tald. would pursue a far different course than he pursued 1900 years ago. "A billion years hence," he says, "the spiritual condition of tho race may bo conceivably as far above ours, as ours Is above tho status of the sav-ageB sav-ageB that roamed the primeval forests. for-ests. And Jesus of Nazareth? Is U Inconceivable that a billion yean or so hence, the human beings then alive will know as little about Him nnd our specific forma of religion ai we know about the religion of th dwellers in Atlantis or any other submerged sub-merged land?" |