Chapter XII

THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEEPENING SENSE OF THE VALUE AND
SACREDNESS OF THE PERSON UPON THEOLOGY 179
I. The Recognition of the Personal in Man 180
1. Man's Personal Separateness from God 180
2. Emphasis upon Man's Moral Initiative 181
3. Man, a Child of God 183
II. The Recognition of the Personal in Christ 184
1. Christ, a Personal Revelation of God 184
2. Emphasizing the Moral and Spiritual in Asserting
the Supremacy of Christ 185
3. The Moral and Spiritual Grounds of the Supremacy
of Christ 188
(1) The Greatest in the Greatest Sphere 188
(2) The Sinless and Impenitent One 192
(3) Consciously Rises to the Highest Ideal 194
(4) Realizes the Character of God 195
(5) Consciously Able to Redeem All Men 196
(6) Complete Normality under this Transcendent
God-Consciousness and Sense of Mission 197
(7) The Only Person Who can call out Absolute Trust 198
(8) The One, in Whom God Certainly Finds Us 199
(9) The Ideal Realized 200
4. Christ's Double Uniqueness 201
5. The Increasing Sense of Our Kinship with Christ,
and of His Reality 205
III. The Recognition of the Personal in God. 207
1. The Steady Carrying Through of the Completely Personal
in the Conception of God. Guarding the Conception 208
2. God is Always the Completely Personal God 212
(1) Consequent Relation of God to "Eternal Truths" 212
(2) Eternal Creation 214
(3) The Unity and Unchangeableness of God 216
(4) The Limitations of the Conception of Immanence 217
3. Deepening the Thought of the Fatherhood of God 218
(1) History, no Mere Natural Process 218
(2) God, the Great Servant 219
(3) No Divine Arbitrariness 220
(4) The Passibility of God 221
4. As to the Doctrine of a Social Trinity 222
5. Preëminent Reverence for Personality, Characterizing
all God's Relations with Men 226
(1) Reflected in Christ 226
(2) In Creation 230
(3) In Providence 232
(4) In Our Personal Religious Life 233
(5) In the Judgment 237
(6) In the Future Life 240

THEOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS