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THE RELATION OF GOD AND MAN,
CONSIDERED FROM THE STANDPOINT
OF RECENT PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE

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A. SETH PRINGLE-PATTISON, LL.D., D.C.L.
J. A. HADFIELD, M.A., M.B.

C. A. ANDERSON SCOTT, M.A.
C. W. EMMET, B.D.

A. CLUTTON-BROCK

AND OTHERS

EDITED BY

B. H. STREETER, M.A.
Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, Canon
Residentiary of Hereford

PUBLIC

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1922

All rights reserved

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"My wish is that I may perceive God, whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner within and inside me."

KEPLER.

"I cannot but think that the reformation in our day, which I expect to be more deep and searching than that of the sixteenth century, will turn upon the Spirit's presence and life, as that did upon the Justification by the Son."

F. D. MAURICE.

"The traditional doctrine of the Holy Spirit, neglected by the early theologians of the Church, even when the creeds were still in the formative period of their existence, has remained until this day in the background of inquiry, both for the theologians and for the philosophers. A favourite target for hostile, although often inarticulate, criticism on the part of the opponents of tradition, and a frequent object of reverential, but confessedly problematic and often very vague, exposition on the part of the defenders of the faith,- the article of the creed regarding the Holy Spirit is, I believe, the one matter about which most who discuss the problem of Christianity have least to say in the way of definite theory. Yet, if I am right, this is, in many respects, the really distinctive and therefore the capital article of the Christian creed, so far as that creed suggests a theory of the divine nature. This article, then, should be understood, if the spirit of Christianity, in its most human and vital of features, is to be understood at all. And this article should be philosophically expounded and defended, if any distinctively Christian article of the creed is to find a foundation in a rationally defensible metaphysical theory of the universe."

Professor ROYCE of Harvard.

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