Geerhardus Vos and the "modern reconstruction-movement"?

[davenporter]

"When measured by this standard of a genuinely-religious and God centered consciousness, it will have to be confessed that, taken as a whole, the modern reconstruction-movement is sadly deficient. It appears to be more humanistic than religious, to derive its motives and ideals from man rather than from God." (Pauline Eschatology, Eschatology of the Psalter, p. 359)

Does anyone know specifically what the "modern reconstruction-movement" Vos is referencing is? Is he simply referring to liberalism in the so-called church, or is it something different?

 

[Contra_Mundum]

I'm open to correction, but I believe he's speaking of the recasting or "reconstruction" project in theology proper, which was the liberalizing/progressive mindset applied to the domain of religion, and specifically the Christian religion.

Religion, as essentially a psychological construct was to be recast along the lines of the modernist interpretation of all reality, and in light of the most recent school (of that era) of philosophical dominance.

 

[davenporter]

Thanks, Rev. Buchanan. I think you're right. I should have given more context in the OP:

" In concluding our rapid survey of the eschatology of the
Psalter, a few words may be added in regard to its prac-
tical bearing on present-day conditions in the religious and
social world. Perhaps our study of the Psalms can be of
some help to us in taking our bearings in the midst of the
loud and universal demand for what is called "reconstruc-
tion." It cannot be denied that the eschatological teaching
of the Psalms, and Old Testament eschatology in general,
bear a certain striking resemblance to the desires and ideals
of this eminently modern drift of life. In the Psalter we
meet not only with the conception of a reconstruction of
things on the grandest of scales, but this is actually pro-
jected on the stage of earthly existence. Here, then, an
opportunity is afforded for testing, and, if necessary, cor-
recting the ends and methods with which the modern move-
ment for world-reconstruction occupies itself. " (p. 357)