The Beginnings of Christianity

Abstract

very close together; and, as the author would say, it is a living God that he has found.Here it is only possible to record, not to examine.But room should be found for a concluding sentence: "To me the idea of God as the perfect in process, as a movement from splendour to splendour in the spiritual world, as an eternal achievement and never-resting realization of the ideals of goodness in human history, is endlessly more attractive and, I believe, more consistent with our experience in the present world than the idea of a Divine Being who sits aloof from the world-process, eternally contemplating His own perfections.', With the title of the book is connected the appeal to the Churches to" treat the articles of the creeds not as dogmas but as the most probable explanation"; and in the Preface the author expresses the" hope that the Church will accept my service of its greater ends in the spirit in which it is offered."

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