Chapter II: The Christian Doctrine of God

I. Object of the essay and attitude assumed 57-59

II. A broad contrast between the God of Philosophy and the God
of religion 59-60

Attempts to get rid of the opposition (1) by division of
territory; (2) by confusion of terms 60-63

III. Religion demands that God shall be Personal, and stand in a
moral relationship with man 63-65

IV. Growth and purification of the religious conception of God 65-68

V. _Religion and Morals._ Collision between the two in Greece,
and its consequences. Synthesis of religion and morality
among the Jews: and in Christianity 68-78

Subsequent collisions between religion and morals within
the Christian Church. The Reformation a moral protest.
Immorality of its later developments. Modern protest
against these 78-82

VI. _Religion and Reason._ Protest of Greek Philosophy against
Polytheism. Christian Theology the meeting-point of Jewish
religion and Greek Philosophy 82-86

What Theology is. Objection to it from the side of
(1) religion, (2) philosophy 86-90

The Christian doctrine of the Trinity an appeal to the
reason 90-91

Its answer to the speculative problems of Greek thought
(1) as to what unity is; (2) as to the immanence of reason
in nature 91-95

The witness of the Fathers 95

The doctrine of the Trinity the true Monotheism; the
doctrine of the _Logos_ as personal yet immanent 95-96

VII. The Christian doctrine of God why challenged in the present
day 96

The deism of the last century. The new science of nature.
Evolution restores the truth of the Divine immanence which
deism denied. Pantheistic reaction 96-102

The Christian doctrine of God the safeguard of rational
religion against deism and pantheism 102-103

VIII. The so-called 'proofs' of the existence of God 103-104

Parallel between the belief in God and the belief in nature 104-107

Verification in experience the only 'proof.' Reason in both
the interpreter of Faith 107-109