Category: Philosophy & Ethics

What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul

Introduction 39 1. What is God? 43 2. Who is God? 48 3. Where is God? 53 4. What does God do? 62 5. If the Ancients made their gods, how do we know that we are not making our God? 71 6. May we not be communing with a mere idea? 73

Chapters

12. CHAPTER I

"I have no God! They have taken Him away and I do not know where to find Him. My childhood conception of a Man-God on a throne in heaven is gone--and I think rightly gone; but I...

15. CHAPTER IV

Our knowledge of both God and man is incomplete until we see their oneness in Jesus and in the kingdom which Jesus proclaimed. In the life of Jesus, God and man are viewed from...

13. CHAPTER II

Expecting to derive much benefit from the sciences, Christian people with fine enthusiasm strove to promote them. Nevertheless, there came a time when the allied sciences threat...

14. CHAPTER III

We do not fully know "what" and "where" God is until we know what man is, and how God and man are working through each other. Our knowledge of God grows with our knowledge of ma...

22. CHAPTER IX

As this volume is designed to be a simple guide in the deeper and more perplexing problems of religion, it would be incomplete without a brief consideration of how God has revea...

23. CHAPTER X

For richness of spiritual content, for loftiness of expression, and for intimacy of communion with God, no other book in the world equals the Psalms. All devout souls have found...

19. d. The provincialism of sceptics

The most hopeless situation of all is where sceptics consort almost wholly with sceptics. They can soon kill the last remnant of religion that lingers in their hearts. The provi...

16. CHAPTER V

The "what" and "where" of God is still incomplete so long as we confine our thought to the mere fragment of time measured by this earth life. Though we have found the unity of a...

21. CHAPTER VIII

Granting that there is a future existence, are we not wholly in the dark as to what it is like? Is it possible to form any conception of heaven that is not offensive to the inte...

20. CHAPTER VII

We willingly admit that some honest doubters have a larger share in God's life than they realize. They have heard the message of truth and love, and though confused as to its or...

17. CHAPTER VI

It is not claimed that all professing Christians have a firm grasp on reality; for when religion is no more than a superficial formality, its credulous devotees experience neith...

18. c. Antiquated forms irritating to sceptics

Crude ideas still cling to the popular statements of religion as barnacles cling to a ship. This unfortunate and unnecessary fact drives away from the Church many conscientious...

5. CHAPTER V

A general statement 142 1. The contagion of doubt 144 2. The inability to make a religious use of modern knowledge 146 3. The loss of a satisfying conception of the future life...

4. CHAPTER IV

1. Introductory statement 104 2. The idea of the Trinity and how it came about 106 3. Was Jesus God or a good man only? 113 4. Can modern psychology any longer believe in the De...

10. CHAPTER IX

If the Bible contains errors, how do we know that any of it is true? 207 A general statement 207 The Method of Finding God's Word 1. The story of Creation 212 2. The story of th...

6. CHAPTER VI

How shall we find the assurance of immortality? 157 1. We automatically find the assurance of the future when we find the reality of the present 157 Some reasons why the quest f...

2. CHAPTER II

Introduction 39 1. What is God? 43 2. Who is God? 48 3. Where is God? 53 4. What does God do? 62 5. If the Ancients made their gods, how do we know that we are not making our Go...

9. CHAPTER VIII

1. Its relation to the present constitution of things 193 2. Where is heaven? 196 3. Will there be a Holy City? 198 4. Will there be music? 201 5. Shall we meet our loved ones?...

3. CHAPTER III

1. What is man? 75 2. Who is man? 77 3. Would the absence of man cripple God? 84 4. What could an infinite God care for such a little speck? 87 5. Is not socialism the best reli...

11. CHAPTER X

The method of finding God's Word (Continued) 1. The Psalms 232 2. The prophets in general 235 3. Jonah 241 4. The New Testament in general 247 5. The Book of Revelation 250

8. CHAPTER VII

7. d. The provincialism of sceptics 164

2. Equal striving for spiritual and material things is necessary 166 3. The final step in the effort to know God 173 4. Conscious of the existence of God, we become certain of i...

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