Enoch, translation of, 658, 994
Environment, 426, 1034, 1049
Epicureanism, 91, 184, 299
Error, systems of, suggest organizing superhuman intelligences,
457
Errors in Scripture, alleged, 222-236
Esprit
gelé (matter) Schelling's bon mot, 386
Esther, book of, 237, 309
“Eternal sin,
an,”, 1034, 1048
Ethics, how conditioned, 3
Christian and Christian faith inseparable, 636
Eutychians (Monophysites), 672
Evidence, principles of, 141-144
Evolution, behind that of our own reason stands the Supreme
Reason, 25
and revelation constitute nature, 26
an, of Scripture as of natural science, 35
of ideas, not from sense to nonsense, 64
has given man the height fromwhich he can discern stars of
moral truth previously hidden below the horizon, 65
a process, not a power, 76
only a method of God, 76
spells purpose, 76
awake to ends within the universe, but not to the great end of
the universe itself, 76
answers objections by showing the development of useful
collocations from initial imperfections, 78
has reinforced the evidences of intelligence in the universe,
79
transfers cause to an immanent rational principle, 79
a materialized, logical process, 84
of universe inexplicable unless matter is moved from without,
92
extension and, being, having thought and will, reveals itself
in, 101
only another name for Christ, 109
views nature as a progressive order consisting of higher levels
and phenomena unknown before, 121
its principle, the Logos or Divine Reason, 123
its continuity that of plan not of force, 128
depends on increments of force with persistency of plan, 123
irreconcilable with Deism and its distant God, 123
the basis and background of a Christianity which believes in a
dynamical universe of which a personal and loving God is the
inner source of energy, 123
implies not the uniformity, but universality of law, 126
has successive stages, with new laws coming in, and becoming
dominant, 125
of Hegel, a fact but fatalistic, 176
of human society not primarily intellectual, but religious, 194
is developing reverence with its allied
qualities, 194
if not recognized in Scripture leads to a denial of its unity,
217
of “Truth—evolvable from the whole, evolved at
last painfully,”, 218
has given us a new Bible—a book which has grown, 224, 230, 231
in a progress in prophecy, doctrine and church-polity seen in
Paul's epistles, 236
not a tale of battle, but a love-story, 264
the object of nature, and altruism the object of evolution, 264
explains the world as the return of the highest to itself, 266
in the idea of holiness and love exhibited in the
palæontological
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life of others, 268, 393
is God's omnipresence in time, 282
of his own being, God not shut up to a necessary, 287
working out a nobler and nobler justice is proof that God is
just, 292
a method of Christ's operation, 311
in its next scientific form will maintain the divineness of man
and exalt Jesus of Nazareth to an eminence secure and supreme,
328
“Father,” more than symbol of the
cause of organic, 334
and gravitation, all the laws of, are the work and
manifestation of the present Christ, 337
the conception of God in, leads to a Trinitarian conception,
349
theological, are the heathen trinities stages in?, 352
is a regress terminating in the necessity of a creator, 374
a self, of God, so Stoic monism regarded the world, 389
implies previous involution, 390
assumes initial arrangements containing the possibilities of
the order afterwards evolved, 390
unable to create something out of nothing, 390
the attempt to comprehend the world of experience in terms of
fundamental idealistic postulates, 390
that ignores freedom of God is pantheistic, 390
from the nebula to man, unfolds a Divine Self, 390
but a habitual operation of God, 390
not an eternal or self-originated process, 391
natural selection without teleological factors cannot account
for biological, 391
and creation, no antagonism between, 391
its limits, 392
Spencer's definition of, stated and criticized, 392
illustrated in progress from Orohippus to horse of the present,
392
of inorganic forces and materials, an, in this the source of
animate species, yet the Mosaic account of creation not
discredited, 392
in all forms of energy, higher and lower, dependent directly on
will of God, 393
the struggle for life to palæontological stages of, the
beginning of the sense of right and justice, 268, 393
the struggle for the life of others in palæontological stages
of, the beginning of altruism, 268, 393
the science of, has strengthened teleology, 397
its flow constitutes the self-revelation of the Infinite One,
413
process of, easier believed in as a divine self-evolution than
as a mechanical process, 459
of man, physical and psychical, no exception to process of, yet
faith in God intact, 465
cannot be explained without taking into account the originating
agency of God, 465
does not make the idea of Creator superfluous, 466
theist must accept, if he keep his argument for existence of
God from unity of design, 466
of music depends on power of transmitting intellectual
achievements, 466
unintelligible except as immanent God gives new impulses to the
process, 470
according to Mivart, it can account neither for body or soul of
man, 472
still incomplete, man is still on all fours, 472
an atheistic, a reversion to the savage view, 473
theistic, regards human nature as efflux and reflection of the
Divine Personality, 473
atheistic, satirized, 473
a superior intelligence has guided, 473
phylogenetic, in the creation of Eve, 525
normal, man's will may induce a counter-evolution to, 591
the goal of man's, is Christ, 680
the derivation of spiritual gifts from the Second Adam
consonant with, 681
of humanity, the whole, depicted in the Cross and Passion, 716
the process by which sons of God are generated, 967
Example, Christ did not simply set, 732
Exegesis based on trustworthiness of verbal vehicle of
inspiration, 216
Exercise-system of Hopkins and Emmons, 45, 416, 417, 584, 607,
822
Existence of God, see
God.
Expiation, representative, recognized among Greeks, 723
Ezra, his relation to O. T., 167
Fact local, truth universal, 240
Facts not to be neglected, because relations are obscure, 36
Faculties, mental, man's three, 487
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Faith, a higher sort of knowledge, 3
physical science rests on, 3
never opposed to reason, 3
conditioned by holy affection, 3
act of integral soul, 4
can alone furnish material for a scientific theology, 4
not blind, 5
its fiducia includes notitia, 5
its place in the Arminian system, 605, 864
in a truth, possible in spite of difficulties to us insoluble,
629
does not save, but atonement which it accepts, 771
saving, is the gift of God, 782
an effect, not cause, of election, 784
involves repentance, 836
defined, 836
analyzed, 837
an intellectual element (notitia,
credere Deum) in, 837
must lay hold of a present Christ, 837
an emotional element (assensus, credere Deo) in, 837
a voluntary element (fiducia, credere in
Deum) in, 838
self-surrender to good physician, 838
the reflection of the Divine knowing and willing in man's
finite spirit, 838
its most important element, will, 838
is a bond between persons, 839
appropriates Christ as source of pardon and life, 839
its three elements illustrated, 839
phrases descriptive of, 839
no element in, must be exaggerated at expense of the others,
839
views refuted by a proper conception of, 840
an act of the affections and will, 840
not a purely intellectual state, 841
is a moral act, and involves responsibility, 841
saving, its general and particular objects, 842
is believing in God as far as he has revealed himself, 842,
is it ever produced “without a preacher”? 843, 844
its ground of faith, the external word, 844
its ground of assurance, the Spirit's inward witness, 844
it is possible without assurance?, 845
necessarily leads to goods works, 846
is not to be confounded with love or obedience, 847
a work and yet excluded from the category of works, 847
instrumental cause of salvation, 847
the intermediate factor between undeveloped tendency toward God
and developed affection for God, 847
must not be confounded with its fruits, 848
the actinic ray, 848
is susceptible of increase, 848
authors on the general subject of, 849
why justified by faith rather than other graces?, 864
not with the work of Christ a joint cause of justification, 864
its relation to justification, 865
the mediate cause of sanctification, 872
secures righteousness (justification plus sanctification), 873
Faithfulness, Divine, 288, 289
Fall, Scriptural account of temptation and, 582-585
if account of, mythical, yet inspired and profitable, 582
reasons for regarding account of, as historical, 582, 583
the stages of temptation that preceded, 584, 585
how possible to a holy being?, 585, 586
incorrect explanations of, 585
God not its author, 586
was man's free act of revolt from God, 587
cannot be explained on grounds of reason, 587
was wilful resistance to the inworking God, 587
was choice of supreme love to the world and self rather than
supreme devotion to God, 587
cannot be explained psychologically, 587
is an ultimate fact, 587
an immanent preference which was first a choice and then an
affection, 588
God's permission of the temptation preceding, benevolent, 588
not Satanic, because not self-originated, 588
its temptation objectified in an embodied seducer, an
advantage, 588
presented no temptation having tendency in itself to lead
astray, 588, 589
the slightness of the command in, the best test of obedience,
589
the command in, was not arbitrary, 589
the greatness of the sanction incurred in, had been announced
and should have deterred, 590
the revelation of a will alienated from God, 590
physical death a consequence of, 590
brought death at once, 590
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mortal effects of the, counteracted by grace, 590
death said by some not to be a consequence of the, 591
spiritual death, a consequence of, 591
arrested the original tendency of man's whole nature to God,
591
depraved man's moral and religious nature, 591
left him with his will fundamentally inclined to evil, 592
darkened the intuition of reason, 592
rendered conscience perverse in its judgments, 592
terminated man's unrestrained intercourse with God, 592, 593
imposed banishment from the garden, 593
constituted Adam's posterity sinful, see
Imputation.
of human nature could only occur in Adam, 629
repented of, because apostasy of our common nature, 629
all responsible for the one sin of the, as race-sin, 630
has depraved human nature, 637
has rendered human nature totally unable to do that which is
good in God's sight, 640
has brought the race under obligation to render satisfaction
for self-determined violation of law, 644
Fallen condition of man, Romanist and Protestant views of, 521,
522
Fate and the decrees of God, 363
“Father,” how applied to whole
Trinity, 333
'our,' import, 334
Federal theology, 45, 46, 50, 612-616
Fellowship, Christian, not church, 979
Fiction, the truest, has no heroes, 575
Final cause, 44, 52, 60, 62, 75-77
Final Things, doctrine of, 981-1056
Fishes, the earliest, ganoids large and advanced in type, 470
“Fold,”
none under New Dispensation, 807
Force, no mental image of, 7
not the atom, the real ultimate, 91
a property of matter, 91, 96
behind all its forms, co-ordinating mind, 95
atom a centre of, 96
matter a manifestation of, 96, 109
expressed in vibrations foundation of all we know of extended
world, 96
the only, we know is that of our own wills, 96
real, lies in the Divine Being, as living, active will, 97
matter and mind as respectively external and internal centres
of, 98
as a function of will, 99, 109, 415, 416
all except that of men's free will, is the will of God, 99
the product of will, 109
in universe works in rational ways and must be product of
spirit, 109
Christ, the principle of every manifestation of, 109
is God with his moral attributes omitted, 259
is energy under resistance, 371
is energy manifesting itself under self-conditioning or
differential forms, 371
identified with the Divine Will, theories in which, 412
and will are one in God, 412
every natural, a generic volition of God, 413
a portion of God's, disjoined from him in the free-will of
intelligent beings, 414
super cuncta, subter cuncta,
414
not always Divine will, 416
in its various differentations adjusted by God, 436
Foreknowledge of God of all future acts directly, 284
acts of free will excepted by some, 284, 285
denial of the absolute, productive of dread, 285
regarded by some as insoluble, 285
perhaps explicable by the possibility of an all-embracing
present, 285
constant teaching of Scripture favors, 285
mediate, what?, 285
immediate, what?, 285
if intuitive, difficulty removed, 285, 357, 362
rests on fore-ordination, 356
preceded logically by decree, 356, 357
of undecreed actuals (scientia media), not
possible, 357
two kinds of, 358
the middle knowledge of Molina, 358
of individuals, 781
distinguished from fore-ordination, 781
Forgiveness, not in nature but in grace, 548
cannot be granted unconditionally by public bodies, 766
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more than the taking away of penalty, 767
optional with God since he makes satisfaction, 767
human accorded without atonement, why not divine?, 835
defined in personal, ethical and legal terms, 854, 855
God's act as Father, 855
none in nature, 855
does not ensure immediate removal of natural consequences of
sin, 855
the peculiar characteristic of Christian experience, 856