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Title: Problems of Immanence
Studies Critical and Constructive

Author: J. Warschauer

Release Date: May 28, 2007 [EBook #21496]

Language: English

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PROBLEMS OF IMMANENCE

STUDIES CRITICAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE

BY

J. WARSCHAUER, M.A., D.Phil.

AUTHOR OF "THE NEW EVANGEL," "JESUS: SEVEN QUESTIONS," ETC.

"SEE THAT THERE IS NO ONE WHO MAKES YOU HIS
PREY BY MEANS OF HIS THEOSOPHY, WHICH IS A VAIN
DECEIT AFTER THE TRADITIONS OF MEN, AFTER THE
ELEMENTS OF THE WORLD AND NOT AFTER CHRIST."
_Col. ii. 8._ (_Dr. Moffatt's Translation._)

LONDON

JAMES CLARKE & CO. 13 & 14 FLEET STREET

1909

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PREFACE

About a year ago certain tendencies in the popular discussion of the
doctrine of Divine Immanence suggested to the present writer the idea
of a brief sketch or article, to be published under the title, "The
Truth of Transcendence." On further reflection, however, a somewhat
more extended treatment of so important a subject seemed desirable, and
this has been attempted in the following chapters. When the doctrine
of immanence began, as it has been of late, to be reasserted in a
somewhat pronounced manner, most of those who were best able to judge
felt conscious of certain dangers likely to arise through
misinterpretation and over-emphasis; that those anticipations have been
abundantly realised, no careful student of recent developments will
dispute, and the present book is intended both to call attention to
these dangers and to bring out the distinction between the truth of
immanence and what to the author seem perversions of that truth.

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