Chapter V: The Incarnation and Development

I. The theory of evolution has recalled our minds to the
'cosmical significance' of the Incarnation, which was a
prominent thought in (1) the early (2) mediaeval church 181-187

II. Theology and Science move in different but parallel planes:
one gives the meaning, the other the method of creation 187-188

Thus the doctrine of 'the Eternal Word' is compatible with
all the verified results of scientific teaching on

(1) energy 188

(2) teleology 188-193

(3) origin and antiquity of man 193-195

(4) mental and moral evolution 195-199

(5) the relation of philosophy to Theology 199-202

(6) the comparative study of religions 202-205

while in the Christian view, it both illuminates and is
illuminated by those results 205-206

III. But when the planes intersect, and we say 'the Word was
made flesh,' we are said to traverse experience 207

(1) This charge is only a critical presumption 207-208

(2) All novelties traverse past experience 208

(3) Moral experience is as real as physical 208-209

(4) The Incarnation harmonizes with our moral experience 209-210

(5) By reorganizing morality it reorientates character 211

(6) It has therefore a true relation to all phases of human
life 211-214