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Title: God and the World
A Survey of Thought

Author: Arthur W. Robinson

Release Date: December 19, 2009 [EBook #30709]

Language: English

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This is one of a series of evidential books drawn up at the
instance of the _Christian Evidence Society_.

GOD AND THE WORLD

A SURVEY OF THOUGHT

BY

ARTHUR W. ROBINSON, D.D.,

Warden of the College of Allhallows Barking

With a Prefatory Note by SIR OLIVER LODGE

LONDON:

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE

NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C., 43 QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.

BRIGHTON: 129 NORTH STREET

NEW YORK: E. S. GORHAM

1913

CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFATORY NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
I. THE OLDER ORTHODOXY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
II. THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
III. THEOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
IV. THE COUNTER-ARGUMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
V. THE COUNTER-ARGUMENTS (_continued_) . . . . . . . . 46
VI. THE COUNTER-ARGUMENTS (_continued_) . . . . . . . . 53
VII. LATER SCIENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
VIII. LATER SCIENCE (_continued_) . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
IX. LATER SCIENCE (_continued_) . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

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PREFATORY NOTE

I have read what Dr. Arthur Robinson has written, and find it a most
interesting, singularly fair, and I may add, within its limits, able
and comprehensive survey of the thoughts of the past and passing age.
I commend it to the coming generation as a useful means of acquiring
some notion of the main puzzles and controversies of the strenuous time
through which their fathers have lived. Fossil remains of these
occasionally fierce discussions they