Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... and yet absolutely combined factors or modes of being of the ethical, in order that God may be actually thought as primary Goodness, not merely are the deistic and pantheistic concepts of God, as they are incompatible with conscience and knowledge, proved to be repudiated as on the final appeal, but they are even positively transcended. Since the ethically necessary and the ethically free, far removed from being exclusive, confirm and demand one another, and since holy love is the union of this double form of the one primary good Being, all non-Christian ideas of God of a one-sided Transcendence and Immanence are definitively surmounted, and God can be thought neither as fate nor mere law, neither as absolute indifference nor as caprice and as in Himself mutable. Deism emphasizes by its incommunicable God the divine Exaltation, the divine Self-preservation, which stands estranged and cold over against the world; Pantheism emphasizes the process of living divine Self-communication in the world, but its God loses Himself therein. Both, as we have seen,1 develop into contradictions. They are positively transcended by the trinitarian apprehension of the ethical Being, that is to say, of Love, which desires itself as necessary and as free, that is, which even in Self-love wills love, and even in Self-communication has and wills itself, and in both is amor amoris. Sublimity and humility, says Franz von Baader, are wondrously united in love. The former is Transcendence, and it remains even in Exaltation communicative and does not divide; the latter is the principle of Immanence, which even in participation with and condescension to what is beneath remains holy and exalted. 32.--The Absolute Personality in its relation to the Divine..."