tical in method, he offers as wholly constructive in aim.

August 1st, 1909.

[1] _A Pluralistic Universe._

[2] _Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans_, vol. ii. pp. 388-9.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

INTRODUCTION: DIVINE IMMANENCE . . . . . . . . . . 11
I. SOME PROBLEMS OF IMMANENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
II. PANTHEISM: THE SUICIDE OF RELIGION . . . . . . . . 41
III. THE ETHICS OF MONISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
IV. MONISM AND THE INDIVIDUAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
V. THE DIVINE PERSONALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
VI. EVIL _versus_ DIVINE GOODNESS . . . . . . . . . . . 87
VII. EVIL _versus_ DIVINE GOODNESS (_cont._) . . . . . . 101
VIII. THE DENIAL OF EVIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
IX. DETERMINISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
X. MORALITY AS A RELIGION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
XI. PROBLEMS OF PRAYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
XII. IMMORTALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

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INTRODUCTION

DIVINE IMMANENCE

The doctrine of Divine immanence is in a very special and unmistakeable
manner the re-discovery of the nineteenth century. Nothing could be
more remote from fact than to call that doctrine a new--or even an
old--heresy. Old it certainly is, but heretical in itself it as
certainly is not; it can point to unquestionable warranty in Holy
Scripture, where such is demanded, and it has never been repudiated by
the Christian Church. But just as a law, without being repealed, may
fall into desuetude, so a doctrine, without being repudiated, may for a
time fade out of the Church's consciousness; and in the one case as in
the other any attempt at revival will arouse a certain amount of
distrust and opposition. There would no doubt be a measure of truth in
the statement that the suspicion and antagonism with which the recent
re-enunciation of this particular doctrine or idea was attended in some
quarters, exemplified this general attitude of the human mind towards
the unaccustomed; and yet such a statement, made without qualification,
{12} would be only a half-truth. The fact is, and it cannot be stated
too soon or too clearly, that if the antagonism and suspicion exhibited
have been exceptionally strong, there have been exceptional causes to
justify both. Alarm, and that of a very legitimate natu