The Nature of God: A Series of Lectures (Classic Reprint)

The Nature of God LECTURE FIRST. THE FAILURE OF PHILOSOPHY. The belief that we are not alone in the world is practically universal. It would seem that no light other than that which " lighteth every man that cometh into the world," is necessary to convince man of this truth. To live in the world, to share its daily experiences, is to feel that we are in contact with a Being who is not of us, but above us. Prominent among these experiences, is the sense of our incompleteness. We are neither self-satisfied, nor self-sufficient. We need something beyond and above to complete our existence; and this something the religious soul finds in God. It is altogether probable that, were it not that man is ever haunted by a sense of his needs, he would give himself but little concern as to who or what is above him. It is his needs that make him religious. Forces against which he is unable to match himself are in league to put (9)

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; LECTURE FIRST; PAGE; The Failure of Philosophy 9; LECTURE SECOND Reasons for the Failure 52; LECTURE THIRD religion 98; LECTURE FOURTH The Origin, Seat and Content of Religion140; LECTURE FIFTH The Certainty of Religious Knowledge182; LECTURE SIXTH Anthropomorphism222; LECTURE SEVENTH The Trinity273; LECTURE EIGHTH The Same Subject Continued302

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