Personal Idealism And Mysticism

lexible vital Law; the God of the savage is tho kind of chiof he would bo himself if he had the opportunity. So closely do gods resemble their worshippers that we might almost parody Pope's line and say that an honest God is the noblest work of man. This incurable anthropomorphism or anthropopsychism has beenTable of Contents CONTENTS; I; OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD; Our religion is necessarily determined by our personal experience-Man is a microcosm, with affinities to evory grade in creation-There is no special organ for the perception of God, but we are brought near to Him by all our faculties, unified as the higher reason-The ascent o£ the soul, as described by the Neoplatonists and Christian* mystics-The soul and the intelligence -The One above intelligence-Ethical system: the soul's progross-Is the ascent purely ethical? Hypothesis of intellectual and aesthetic interests in God -Importance of this admission for the attitude of religion to science and art-Unfortunate tendency to disparage the witness of nature to God-The natural order is not to be interpreted in terms of human wishes-Influence of Lotzo on the side of a pluralistic will-philosophy-General character of Divine revelation-Psychological basis of Trinitarian doctrine- The problem of personality-The problem of sin 1-31; II; SOURCES AND GROWTH OP THE LOGOS-CHRISTO LOGY; The doctrine of the Trinity best undorstood from the side of D