NEW THEOLOGY, THE, or NEW' DIVIKITY. A term often applied in the last quarter of the last century to a movement represented by And over Theological Seminary, and embodied in a small volume by its professors, called Progressire Orthodory, published in 1836. It became clear finally that the movement was larger and deeper than this, and the term is now generally applied to those forms of theological effort which attempt to incorporate fully in theology the approved re sults of modern thinking, especially such as are derived from the general theory of evolution. The new- theology cannot be said to be a con sistent system of thought, nor uniform among its various advocates and promotors. There are left and right wings. But with various differences of emphasis and of the completeness with which the separate results of the methods are adopted, the new theology may be said to agree in the following points: the acceptance of evolution as the method of divine providence in the spiritual sphere as well as in the material; the employ ment of the methods of the higher criticism in the discussion of the origin and authority of both Testaments; the rejection of verbal inspira tion and the substitution for it of greater, or sometimes exclusive, emphasis upon revelation (see INSPIRATION) ; a subjective view of the atonement; increased emphasis upon ethics in distinction from dogmatics, and upon sociological study and work; restatement of positions in eschatology, with a strong tendency to univer salism. The tendency of the school is to mini
mize the supernatural (miraculous), and in the left wing to exclude it. Every important de nomination of Christians has some share in this movement.