THE IDEA OF GOD AS AFFECTED BY MODERN KNOWLEDGE

By John Fiske

CONTENTS

I. Difficulty of expressing the Idea of God so that it can be readily understood 35
II. The Rapid Growth of Modern Knowledge 46
III. Sources of the Theistic Idea 62
IV. Development of Monotheism 72
V. The Idea of God as immanent in the World 81
VI. The Idea of God as remote from the World 87
VII. Conflict between the Two Ideas, commonly misunderstood as a Conflict between Religion and Science 97
VIII. Anthropomorphic Conceptions of God 111
IX. The Argument from Design 118
X. Simile of the Watch replaced by Simile of the Flower 128
XI. The Craving for a Final Cause 134
XII. Symbolic Conceptions 140
XIII. The Eternal Source of Phenomena 144
XIV. The Power that makes for Righteousness 158