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The writer believes that these dogmas of relationship are not merely

extraneous to religion, but an impediment to religion. His aim in

this book is to give a statement of religion which is no longer

entangled in such speculations and disputes.





Let him add only one other note of explanation in this preface, and

that is to remark that except for one incidental passage (in Chapter

IV., 1), nowhere does he discuss the question of personal

immortality. [It is discussed in "First and Last Things," Book IV,

4.] He omits this question because he does not consider that it has

any more bearing upon the essentials of religion, than have the

theories we may hold about the relation of God and the moral law to

the starry universe. The latter is a question for the theologian,

the former for the psychologist. Whether we are mortal or immortaea of this book very roughly, these two

antagonistic typical conceptions of God may be best contrasted by

speaking of one of them as God-as-Nature or the Creator, and of the

other as God-as-Christ or the Redeemer. One is the great Outward

God; the other is the Inmost God. The first idea was perhaps

developed most highly and completely in the God of Spinoza. It is a

conception of God tending to pantheism, to an idea of a

comprehensive God as ruling with justice rather than affection, to a

conception of aloofness and awestriking worshipfulness. The second

idea, which is opposed to this idea of an absolute God, is the God

of the human heart. The writer would suggest that the great outline