y abashed.
Upon this recovered Jesus the world has now fixed its adoring gaze, and
it will not readily let Him go again.

+Divine manhood and Unitarianism.+--But then, someone will protest,
this is sheer Unitarianism after all; you do not believe in the Jesus
who is the object of the faith of Christendom, but in one who was only
a man among men; you do not think of Him as very God of very God. Not
so fast; we are busy with names again. Most of us have a tendency to
think that if we can get a doctrine labelled and pigeonholed, we know
all about it, but we are generally mistaken. This is not Unitarianism,
and I do believe that Jesus was very God, as I have already shown. We
have to get rid of the dualism which will insist on putting humanity
and Deity into two separate categories. I say it is not Unitarianism,
for historic Unitarianism has been just as prone to this dualism as the
extremest Trinitarianism has ever been. Like Trinitarianism it has
often tended to regard humanity as on one side of a gulf and Deity as
on the other; it has emphasised too much the transcendence of God. The
sentence quoted above from an orthodox Trinitarian divine about "God's
eternal eminence and His descent on a created world" might just as well
have been employed by an out-and-out Unitarian. Modern Unitarianism is
in part the descendant of eighteenth-century Deism which insisted upon
the transcendence of God almost to the exclusion of His immanence; it
thought of God as away somewhere above the universe, watching it but
leaving the machine pretty much to itself. Unitarianism in the course
of its history from the first century downward has passed through a
good many phases. Present-day Unitarianism is preaching with fervour
and clearness the foundation truth of the New Theology, the fundamental
unity of God and man. But it does not belong to it exclusively, and I
decline to be labelled Unitarian because I preach it too. The New
Theology is not a victory for Unitarianism. If ever the
English-speaking communities of the world should come to be united
under a single flag, would it be just and wise to call them all
Americans? No doubt some of our American cousins would like to think
so, but there is enough of virility and solid worth on the British side
of the question to make that description impossible. The title would
be a misnomer, and in fact an absurdity. The case in regard to the
connection of the New Theology with Unitaria