The Nature of God

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Excerpt from The Nature of God: A Series of LecturesThe following lectures were delivered before the students of Wittenberg Theological Seminary dur ing the winter of 1908 and 1909. They are an attempt to present the Christian idea of God as opposed to that of philosophy. Between the two conceptions there is a fundamental difference. Philosophy conceives of God either from the stand point of absolute transcendence or that of helpless immanence, as utterly removed from the world, or as lost in it. To the hunger of the soul for a God with whom it may hold fellowship, and from whom it may derive help, philosophy offers a stone in stead of bread. Man needs a God who in every sense of the term is near, a Being capable of being touched with a feeling of our infirmities for the reason that He has Himself felt them. 'it is for a quasi-human God that the soul hungers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.