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of the theological struggles of that phase of civilisation and world

unity which produced Christianity, was a persistent but unsuccessful

attempt to get these two different ideas of God into one focus. It

was an attempt to make the God of Nature accessible and the God of

the Heart invincible, to bring the former into a conception of love

and to vest the latter with the beauty of stars and flowers and the

dignity of inexorable justice. There could be no finer metaphor for

such a correlation than Fatherhood and Sonship. But the trouble is

that it seems impossible to most people to continue to regard the

relations of the Father to the Son as being simply a mystical

metaphor. Presently some materialistic bias swings them in a moment

of intellectual carelessness back to the idea of sexual filiation.



And it may further be suggested that the extreme aloofness and

inhumanity, which is logically necessary in the idea of a Creator

God, of an Infinite God, was the reason, so to speak, for the

invention of a Holy Spirit, as something proceeding from him, as

something bridging the great gulf, a Comforter, a mediator

descending into the sphere of the human understanding. That, and

the suggestive influence of the Egyptian Trinity that was then being

worshipped at the Serapeum, and which had saturated the thought of

Alexandria with the conception of a trinity in unity, are probably

the realities that account for the Third Person of the Christian

Trinity. At any rate the present writer believes that the

discussions that shaped the Christian theology we know were