Chapter 74

Manhood of Christ, ideal, 678, 679Manichæanism, 382, 670Moriolatry, invocation of saints, and transubstantiation, origin of, 673Marriage, a type of human and divine nature in Christ, 693'Mary, mother of God,', 671, 686Material force as little observable as divine agency, 8organism, not necessarily a hindrance to activity of spirit, 1021Materialism, idealism, and pantheism, arise from desire after scientific unity, 90Materialism, what?, 90element of truth in, 90objection to, from intuition, 92objection to, from mind's attributes, 92, 93cannot explain the psychical from the physical, 93furnishes no sufficient cause for highest phenomena of universe, 94furnishes no evidence of consciousness in others, 94, 95Sadducean, denies resurrection of body, 1018recent, its services to proper views of body, 1018Materialistic Idealism, 95-100its definition, 95its development, 95-97defective in its definition of matter, 97defective in its definition of mind, 97, 98opposed to the imperative assumptions of non-empirical, transcendent knowledge of things-in-themselves, 98however modified, cumbered with the difficulties of pure materialism, 98, 99a view of, held by many Christian thinkers, 99, 100Mathematics, a disclosure of the divine nature, 261crystallized, the heavens are, 261Matter, regarded as atoms which have force as a universal and inseparable property, 90, 91in its more modern aspect, a manifestation of force, 91the Tyndall and Crookes deliverances regarding, 91mind intuitively regarded as different from it in kind, and higher in rank, 92to be regarded as secondary and subordinate to mind, 93and mind, relations between, 93, 94does it provide“the needful objectivity for God”?, 347its eternity not disprovable by reason, 374not stuff that emanated from God, 385not stuff, but an activity of God, 385according to Schelling,esprit gelé, 386its continuance dependent on God, 413made by God, and, therefore, pure, 560its capacities, as subservient to spirit, inestimable, 1021, 1022Memory, its impeccability in the case of the apostles, secured by promised Spirit, 207a preparation for the final judgment, 1026of an evil deed, becomes keener with time, 1029Memra, relation to Johannine Logos, 320Mendacium officiosum, 262Mennonites, 970Mens humana capax divinæ, 212Mens rea, essential to crime, 554Mercy, in the God of nature, some indications which point to, 113optional, 271, 296, 297defined, 289[pg 1095]divine, a matter of revelation, 296election a matter of, 779Messiah, 321, 667, 668Metaphysical generation of the soul, 493Military theory of atonement, 747Millennium, 1008-1015Mind, has no parts, yet divisible, 9its organizing instinct, 15, 16gives both final and efficient cause, 76recognizes itself as another and higher than the material organization it uses, 92its attributes and itself different in kind and higher in rank than matter, 92, 93not transformed physical force, 93the only substantive thing in the universe, all else is adjective, 94unsatisfactorily defined as a“series of feelings aware of itself,”, 97Absolute, not conditioned as the finite mind, 104“carnal,”its meaning, 592Minister, his chief qualification, 17his relation to church work, 898forfeiture of his standing as, 923, 924Miracle, a preliminary definition, 117modified definition suggested by Babbage, 117, 118“signality”must be preserved in definition of, 118preferable definition, 118, 119never regarded in Scripture as an infraction of law, 119natural processes may be in, 119the attitude of some theologians towards, irrational, 120a number of opinions upon, presented, 120possibility of, 121-123not beyond the power of a God dwelling in and controlling the universe, shown in some observations, 121-123possibility of, doubly strong to those who give the Logos or Divine Reason his place in his universe, 122possible on Lotzean view of universe, 123possible because God is not far away, 123possible because of the action and reaction between the world and the personal Absolute, 123a presumption against, 124presupposes, and derives its value from, law, 124a uniformity of nature, inconsistent with miracle, non-existent, 124no one is entitled to saya priorithat it is impossible (Huxley), 124but the higher stage as seen from the lower, 125when the efficient cause gives place to the final cause, 125exists because the uniformity of nature is of less importance in the sight of God than the moral growth of the human spirit, 125“the greatest I know, my conversion”(Vinet), 125our view of, determined by our belief in a moral or a non-moral God, 126is extraordinary, never arbitrary, 126not a question of power, but of rationality and love, 126implies self-restraint and self-unfolding, 126accompanied by a sacrifice of feeling on the part of Christ, 126probability of, greater from point of view of ethical monism, 126a work in which God lovingly limits himself, 126probability of, drawn from the concessions of Huxley, 127the amount of testimony necessary to prove a, 127Hume's misrepresentation of the abnormality of, 127Hume's argument against, fallacious, 127evidential force of, 128-131accompanies and attests new communications from God, 128its distribution in history, 128, 129its cessation or continuance, 128, 132, 133certifies directly not to the truth of a doctrine, but of a teacher, 129must be supported by purity of life and doctrine, 129to see in all nature the working of the living God removes prejudice against, 130the revelation of God, not the proof of that revelation, 130does not lose its value in the process of ages, 130of the resurrection sustains the authority of Christ as a teacher, 130of Christ's resurrection, is it“an obsolete picture of an eternal truth”?, 130of Christ's resurrection, has complete historical attestation, 130, 131of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by theswoon-theoryof Strauss, 131of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by thespirit-theoryof Keim, 131[pg 1096]of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by thevision-theoryof Renan, 131of Christ's resurrection, its three lessons, 131the counterfeit, 132only a direct act of God a, 132the counterfeit, attests the true, 132how the false, may be distinguished from the true, 132, 133Miracles as attesting Divine Revelation, 117-133Mohammedanism, 186, 347, 427Molecular movement and thought, 93Molecules, manufactured articles, 77Molluscs, their beauty inexplicable by“natural selection,”, 471Monarchians, 327Monism presents that deep force, in which effects, psychical and bodily, find common origin, 69there must be a basal, 80Monism, Ethical, defined, 105consistent with the teachings of Holy Writ, 105the faith of Augustine, 105the faith of Anselm, 105, 106embraces the one element of truth in pantheism, 106is entirely consistent with ethical fact, 106is Metaphysical Monism qualified by Psychological Monism, 106is supplanting Dualism in philosophic thought, 106it rejects the two main errors of pantheism, 107, 109it regards the universe as a finite, partial, and progressive revelation of God, 107, 108it regards matter as God's limitation under law of necessity, 107it regards humanity as God's self-limitation under law of freedom, 107it regards incarnation and atonement as God's self-limitation under law of grace, 107regards universe as related to God as thought to the thinker, 107regards nature as the province of God's pledged and habitual causality, 107is the doctrine largely of the poets, 107, 108guarantees individuality and rights of each portion of universe, 108in moral realm estimates worth by the voluntary recognition and appropriation of the divine, 108does not, like pantheism, involve moral indifference to the variations observed in universe, 108does not regard saint and sensualist, men and mice as of equal value, 108it regards the universe as a graded and progressing manifestation of God's love for righteousness and opposition to wrong, 108it recognizes the mysterious power of selfhood to oppose the divine law, 108it recognizes the protective and vindicatory reaction of the divine against evil, 108it gives ethical content to Spinoza's apophthegm, 'all things serve,', 108it neither cancels moral distinctions, nor minifies retribution, 108recognizes Christ as the Logos of God in its universal acceptance, 109recognizes as the Creator, Upholder, and Governor of the universe, Him who in history became incarnate and by death made atonement for human sin, 109rests on Scriptural statements, 109secures a Christian application of modern philosophical doctrine, 109gives a more fruitful conception of matter, 109considers nature as the omnipresent Christ, 109presents Christ as the unifying reality of physical, mental and moral phenomena, 109its relation to pantheism and deism, 109furnishes a foundation for new interpretation in theology and philosophy, 109helps to acceptance of Trinitarianism, 109teaches that while the natural bond uniting to God cannot be broken, the moral bond may, 109, 110how it interprets“rejecting”Christ, 110enables us to understand the principle of the atonement, 110strengthens the probability of miracle, 126teaches that God is pure and perfect mind that passes beyond all phenomena and is their ground, 255teaches that“that which hath been made was life in him,”Christ, 311teaches that in Christ all things“consist,”hold together, as cosmos rather than chaos, 311teaches that gravitation, evolution, and the laws of nature are Christ's habits, and nature but his constant will, 311[pg 1097]teaches that in Christ is the intellectual bond, the uniformity of law, the unity of truth, 311teaches that Christ is the principle of induction, the medium of interaction, and the moral attraction of the universe, reconciling all things in heaven and earth, 311teaches that God transcendent, the Father, is revealed by God immanent, the Son, 314teaches that Christ is the life of nature, 337teaches that creation is thought in expression, reason externalized, 381teaches a dualism that holds to underground connections of life between man and man, man and nature, man and God, 386teaches that the universe is a life and not a mechanism, 391teaches that God personally present in the wheat makes it grow, and in the dough turns it into bread, 411teaches that every man lives, moves, and has his being in God, and that whatever has come into being, whether material or spiritual, has its life only in Christ, 413teaches that“Dei voluntas est rerum natura,”, 413teaches that nothing finite is only finite, 413its further teaching concerning natural forces and personal beings, 413, 414, 418, 419allows of“second cause,”, 416Monogenism, modern science in favor of, 480Monophysites, 672seeEutychians.Monotheism, facts point to an original, 56, 531Hebrew, preceeds polytheistic systems of antiquity, 531, 532more and more evident in heathen religions as we trace them back, 531, 532an original, authors on, 531, 532Montanists, 304Montanus, 712Moral argument for the existence of God, the designation criticized, 81faculty, its deliverances, evidences of an intelligent cause, 82freedom, what?, 361nature of man, 497-513likeness to himself, how restored by God, 518law, what?, 537-544law, man's relations to, reach beyond consciousness, 594government of God, recognizes race-responsibilities, 594union of human and divine in Christ, 671analogies of atonement, 716evil, seeSin.obligation, its grounds determined, 298-303judgments, involve will, 841Morality, Christian, a fruit of doctrine, 16of N. T., 177, 178Christian, criticized by Mill, 179heathen systems of, 179-186of Bible, progressive, 230mere insistence on, cannot make men moral, 863“Morning stars,”, 445“Mother of God,”, 681Motive, not cause but occasion, 360, 506man never acts without or contrary to, 360a ground of prediction, 360influences, without infringing on free agency, 360the previously dominant, not always the impulsive, 360Motives, man can choose between, 360persuade but never compel, 362, 506, 649not wholly external to mind influenced by them, 506, 817lower, sometimes seemingly appealed to in Scripture, 826, 827Muratorian Canon, 147Music, reminiscent of possession lost, 526Mystic, 31, 81Mysticism, true and false, 32MystikandMysticismus, 31Myth, its nature, 155as distinguished fromsagaand legend, 155“the Divine Spirit can avail himself of”(Sabatier), 155'may be made the medium of revelation' (Denney), 214not a falsehood, 155, 214early part of Genesis may be of the nature of a, 214Myth-theory of the origin of the gospels (Strauss), 155-157described, 155, 156objected to, 156, 157authors on, 157NachwirkungandFortwirkung, 776“Name, in my,”, 807Names of God, the five Hebrew,Ewald on, 318Nascimur, pascimur, 972[pg 1098]Natura, 392Natura enim non nisi parendo vincitur, 541Natura humana in Christo capax divinæ, 694Natura naturans(Spinoza), 244, 287Natura naturata(Spinoza), 244, 287, 700Naturæ minister et interpres, 2Natural = psychical, 484Natural insight as to source of religious knowledge, 203Natural law, advantages of its general uniformity, 124events aside from its general fixity to be expected if moral ends require, 125life, God's gift of, foreshadows larger blessings, 289realism, and location of mind in body, 280revelation supplemented by Scripture, 27

Manhood of Christ, ideal, 678, 679Manichæanism, 382, 670Moriolatry, invocation of saints, and transubstantiation, origin of, 673Marriage, a type of human and divine nature in Christ, 693'Mary, mother of God,', 671, 686Material force as little observable as divine agency, 8organism, not necessarily a hindrance to activity of spirit, 1021Materialism, idealism, and pantheism, arise from desire after scientific unity, 90Materialism, what?, 90element of truth in, 90objection to, from intuition, 92objection to, from mind's attributes, 92, 93cannot explain the psychical from the physical, 93furnishes no sufficient cause for highest phenomena of universe, 94furnishes no evidence of consciousness in others, 94, 95Sadducean, denies resurrection of body, 1018recent, its services to proper views of body, 1018Materialistic Idealism, 95-100its definition, 95its development, 95-97defective in its definition of matter, 97defective in its definition of mind, 97, 98opposed to the imperative assumptions of non-empirical, transcendent knowledge of things-in-themselves, 98however modified, cumbered with the difficulties of pure materialism, 98, 99a view of, held by many Christian thinkers, 99, 100Mathematics, a disclosure of the divine nature, 261crystallized, the heavens are, 261Matter, regarded as atoms which have force as a universal and inseparable property, 90, 91in its more modern aspect, a manifestation of force, 91the Tyndall and Crookes deliverances regarding, 91mind intuitively regarded as different from it in kind, and higher in rank, 92to be regarded as secondary and subordinate to mind, 93and mind, relations between, 93, 94does it provide“the needful objectivity for God”?, 347its eternity not disprovable by reason, 374not stuff that emanated from God, 385not stuff, but an activity of God, 385according to Schelling,esprit gelé, 386its continuance dependent on God, 413made by God, and, therefore, pure, 560its capacities, as subservient to spirit, inestimable, 1021, 1022Memory, its impeccability in the case of the apostles, secured by promised Spirit, 207a preparation for the final judgment, 1026of an evil deed, becomes keener with time, 1029Memra, relation to Johannine Logos, 320Mendacium officiosum, 262Mennonites, 970Mens humana capax divinæ, 212Mens rea, essential to crime, 554Mercy, in the God of nature, some indications which point to, 113optional, 271, 296, 297defined, 289[pg 1095]divine, a matter of revelation, 296election a matter of, 779Messiah, 321, 667, 668Metaphysical generation of the soul, 493Military theory of atonement, 747Millennium, 1008-1015Mind, has no parts, yet divisible, 9its organizing instinct, 15, 16gives both final and efficient cause, 76recognizes itself as another and higher than the material organization it uses, 92its attributes and itself different in kind and higher in rank than matter, 92, 93not transformed physical force, 93the only substantive thing in the universe, all else is adjective, 94unsatisfactorily defined as a“series of feelings aware of itself,”, 97Absolute, not conditioned as the finite mind, 104“carnal,”its meaning, 592Minister, his chief qualification, 17his relation to church work, 898forfeiture of his standing as, 923, 924Miracle, a preliminary definition, 117modified definition suggested by Babbage, 117, 118“signality”must be preserved in definition of, 118preferable definition, 118, 119never regarded in Scripture as an infraction of law, 119natural processes may be in, 119the attitude of some theologians towards, irrational, 120a number of opinions upon, presented, 120possibility of, 121-123not beyond the power of a God dwelling in and controlling the universe, shown in some observations, 121-123possibility of, doubly strong to those who give the Logos or Divine Reason his place in his universe, 122possible on Lotzean view of universe, 123possible because God is not far away, 123possible because of the action and reaction between the world and the personal Absolute, 123a presumption against, 124presupposes, and derives its value from, law, 124a uniformity of nature, inconsistent with miracle, non-existent, 124no one is entitled to saya priorithat it is impossible (Huxley), 124but the higher stage as seen from the lower, 125when the efficient cause gives place to the final cause, 125exists because the uniformity of nature is of less importance in the sight of God than the moral growth of the human spirit, 125“the greatest I know, my conversion”(Vinet), 125our view of, determined by our belief in a moral or a non-moral God, 126is extraordinary, never arbitrary, 126not a question of power, but of rationality and love, 126implies self-restraint and self-unfolding, 126accompanied by a sacrifice of feeling on the part of Christ, 126probability of, greater from point of view of ethical monism, 126a work in which God lovingly limits himself, 126probability of, drawn from the concessions of Huxley, 127the amount of testimony necessary to prove a, 127Hume's misrepresentation of the abnormality of, 127Hume's argument against, fallacious, 127evidential force of, 128-131accompanies and attests new communications from God, 128its distribution in history, 128, 129its cessation or continuance, 128, 132, 133certifies directly not to the truth of a doctrine, but of a teacher, 129must be supported by purity of life and doctrine, 129to see in all nature the working of the living God removes prejudice against, 130the revelation of God, not the proof of that revelation, 130does not lose its value in the process of ages, 130of the resurrection sustains the authority of Christ as a teacher, 130of Christ's resurrection, is it“an obsolete picture of an eternal truth”?, 130of Christ's resurrection, has complete historical attestation, 130, 131of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by theswoon-theoryof Strauss, 131of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by thespirit-theoryof Keim, 131[pg 1096]of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by thevision-theoryof Renan, 131of Christ's resurrection, its three lessons, 131the counterfeit, 132only a direct act of God a, 132the counterfeit, attests the true, 132how the false, may be distinguished from the true, 132, 133Miracles as attesting Divine Revelation, 117-133Mohammedanism, 186, 347, 427Molecular movement and thought, 93Molecules, manufactured articles, 77Molluscs, their beauty inexplicable by“natural selection,”, 471Monarchians, 327Monism presents that deep force, in which effects, psychical and bodily, find common origin, 69there must be a basal, 80Monism, Ethical, defined, 105consistent with the teachings of Holy Writ, 105the faith of Augustine, 105the faith of Anselm, 105, 106embraces the one element of truth in pantheism, 106is entirely consistent with ethical fact, 106is Metaphysical Monism qualified by Psychological Monism, 106is supplanting Dualism in philosophic thought, 106it rejects the two main errors of pantheism, 107, 109it regards the universe as a finite, partial, and progressive revelation of God, 107, 108it regards matter as God's limitation under law of necessity, 107it regards humanity as God's self-limitation under law of freedom, 107it regards incarnation and atonement as God's self-limitation under law of grace, 107regards universe as related to God as thought to the thinker, 107regards nature as the province of God's pledged and habitual causality, 107is the doctrine largely of the poets, 107, 108guarantees individuality and rights of each portion of universe, 108in moral realm estimates worth by the voluntary recognition and appropriation of the divine, 108does not, like pantheism, involve moral indifference to the variations observed in universe, 108does not regard saint and sensualist, men and mice as of equal value, 108it regards the universe as a graded and progressing manifestation of God's love for righteousness and opposition to wrong, 108it recognizes the mysterious power of selfhood to oppose the divine law, 108it recognizes the protective and vindicatory reaction of the divine against evil, 108it gives ethical content to Spinoza's apophthegm, 'all things serve,', 108it neither cancels moral distinctions, nor minifies retribution, 108recognizes Christ as the Logos of God in its universal acceptance, 109recognizes as the Creator, Upholder, and Governor of the universe, Him who in history became incarnate and by death made atonement for human sin, 109rests on Scriptural statements, 109secures a Christian application of modern philosophical doctrine, 109gives a more fruitful conception of matter, 109considers nature as the omnipresent Christ, 109presents Christ as the unifying reality of physical, mental and moral phenomena, 109its relation to pantheism and deism, 109furnishes a foundation for new interpretation in theology and philosophy, 109helps to acceptance of Trinitarianism, 109teaches that while the natural bond uniting to God cannot be broken, the moral bond may, 109, 110how it interprets“rejecting”Christ, 110enables us to understand the principle of the atonement, 110strengthens the probability of miracle, 126teaches that God is pure and perfect mind that passes beyond all phenomena and is their ground, 255teaches that“that which hath been made was life in him,”Christ, 311teaches that in Christ all things“consist,”hold together, as cosmos rather than chaos, 311teaches that gravitation, evolution, and the laws of nature are Christ's habits, and nature but his constant will, 311[pg 1097]teaches that in Christ is the intellectual bond, the uniformity of law, the unity of truth, 311teaches that Christ is the principle of induction, the medium of interaction, and the moral attraction of the universe, reconciling all things in heaven and earth, 311teaches that God transcendent, the Father, is revealed by God immanent, the Son, 314teaches that Christ is the life of nature, 337teaches that creation is thought in expression, reason externalized, 381teaches a dualism that holds to underground connections of life between man and man, man and nature, man and God, 386teaches that the universe is a life and not a mechanism, 391teaches that God personally present in the wheat makes it grow, and in the dough turns it into bread, 411teaches that every man lives, moves, and has his being in God, and that whatever has come into being, whether material or spiritual, has its life only in Christ, 413teaches that“Dei voluntas est rerum natura,”, 413teaches that nothing finite is only finite, 413its further teaching concerning natural forces and personal beings, 413, 414, 418, 419allows of“second cause,”, 416Monogenism, modern science in favor of, 480Monophysites, 672seeEutychians.Monotheism, facts point to an original, 56, 531Hebrew, preceeds polytheistic systems of antiquity, 531, 532more and more evident in heathen religions as we trace them back, 531, 532an original, authors on, 531, 532Montanists, 304Montanus, 712Moral argument for the existence of God, the designation criticized, 81faculty, its deliverances, evidences of an intelligent cause, 82freedom, what?, 361nature of man, 497-513likeness to himself, how restored by God, 518law, what?, 537-544law, man's relations to, reach beyond consciousness, 594government of God, recognizes race-responsibilities, 594union of human and divine in Christ, 671analogies of atonement, 716evil, seeSin.obligation, its grounds determined, 298-303judgments, involve will, 841Morality, Christian, a fruit of doctrine, 16of N. T., 177, 178Christian, criticized by Mill, 179heathen systems of, 179-186of Bible, progressive, 230mere insistence on, cannot make men moral, 863“Morning stars,”, 445“Mother of God,”, 681Motive, not cause but occasion, 360, 506man never acts without or contrary to, 360a ground of prediction, 360influences, without infringing on free agency, 360the previously dominant, not always the impulsive, 360Motives, man can choose between, 360persuade but never compel, 362, 506, 649not wholly external to mind influenced by them, 506, 817lower, sometimes seemingly appealed to in Scripture, 826, 827Muratorian Canon, 147Music, reminiscent of possession lost, 526Mystic, 31, 81Mysticism, true and false, 32MystikandMysticismus, 31Myth, its nature, 155as distinguished fromsagaand legend, 155“the Divine Spirit can avail himself of”(Sabatier), 155'may be made the medium of revelation' (Denney), 214not a falsehood, 155, 214early part of Genesis may be of the nature of a, 214Myth-theory of the origin of the gospels (Strauss), 155-157described, 155, 156objected to, 156, 157authors on, 157NachwirkungandFortwirkung, 776“Name, in my,”, 807Names of God, the five Hebrew,Ewald on, 318Nascimur, pascimur, 972[pg 1098]Natura, 392Natura enim non nisi parendo vincitur, 541Natura humana in Christo capax divinæ, 694Natura naturans(Spinoza), 244, 287Natura naturata(Spinoza), 244, 287, 700Naturæ minister et interpres, 2Natural = psychical, 484Natural insight as to source of religious knowledge, 203Natural law, advantages of its general uniformity, 124events aside from its general fixity to be expected if moral ends require, 125life, God's gift of, foreshadows larger blessings, 289realism, and location of mind in body, 280revelation supplemented by Scripture, 27

Manhood of Christ, ideal, 678, 679Manichæanism, 382, 670Moriolatry, invocation of saints, and transubstantiation, origin of, 673Marriage, a type of human and divine nature in Christ, 693'Mary, mother of God,', 671, 686Material force as little observable as divine agency, 8organism, not necessarily a hindrance to activity of spirit, 1021Materialism, idealism, and pantheism, arise from desire after scientific unity, 90Materialism, what?, 90element of truth in, 90objection to, from intuition, 92objection to, from mind's attributes, 92, 93cannot explain the psychical from the physical, 93furnishes no sufficient cause for highest phenomena of universe, 94furnishes no evidence of consciousness in others, 94, 95Sadducean, denies resurrection of body, 1018recent, its services to proper views of body, 1018Materialistic Idealism, 95-100its definition, 95its development, 95-97defective in its definition of matter, 97defective in its definition of mind, 97, 98opposed to the imperative assumptions of non-empirical, transcendent knowledge of things-in-themselves, 98however modified, cumbered with the difficulties of pure materialism, 98, 99a view of, held by many Christian thinkers, 99, 100Mathematics, a disclosure of the divine nature, 261crystallized, the heavens are, 261Matter, regarded as atoms which have force as a universal and inseparable property, 90, 91in its more modern aspect, a manifestation of force, 91the Tyndall and Crookes deliverances regarding, 91mind intuitively regarded as different from it in kind, and higher in rank, 92to be regarded as secondary and subordinate to mind, 93and mind, relations between, 93, 94does it provide“the needful objectivity for God”?, 347its eternity not disprovable by reason, 374not stuff that emanated from God, 385not stuff, but an activity of God, 385according to Schelling,esprit gelé, 386its continuance dependent on God, 413made by God, and, therefore, pure, 560its capacities, as subservient to spirit, inestimable, 1021, 1022Memory, its impeccability in the case of the apostles, secured by promised Spirit, 207a preparation for the final judgment, 1026of an evil deed, becomes keener with time, 1029Memra, relation to Johannine Logos, 320Mendacium officiosum, 262Mennonites, 970Mens humana capax divinæ, 212Mens rea, essential to crime, 554Mercy, in the God of nature, some indications which point to, 113optional, 271, 296, 297defined, 289[pg 1095]divine, a matter of revelation, 296election a matter of, 779Messiah, 321, 667, 668Metaphysical generation of the soul, 493Military theory of atonement, 747Millennium, 1008-1015Mind, has no parts, yet divisible, 9its organizing instinct, 15, 16gives both final and efficient cause, 76recognizes itself as another and higher than the material organization it uses, 92its attributes and itself different in kind and higher in rank than matter, 92, 93not transformed physical force, 93the only substantive thing in the universe, all else is adjective, 94unsatisfactorily defined as a“series of feelings aware of itself,”, 97Absolute, not conditioned as the finite mind, 104“carnal,”its meaning, 592Minister, his chief qualification, 17his relation to church work, 898forfeiture of his standing as, 923, 924Miracle, a preliminary definition, 117modified definition suggested by Babbage, 117, 118“signality”must be preserved in definition of, 118preferable definition, 118, 119never regarded in Scripture as an infraction of law, 119natural processes may be in, 119the attitude of some theologians towards, irrational, 120a number of opinions upon, presented, 120possibility of, 121-123not beyond the power of a God dwelling in and controlling the universe, shown in some observations, 121-123possibility of, doubly strong to those who give the Logos or Divine Reason his place in his universe, 122possible on Lotzean view of universe, 123possible because God is not far away, 123possible because of the action and reaction between the world and the personal Absolute, 123a presumption against, 124presupposes, and derives its value from, law, 124a uniformity of nature, inconsistent with miracle, non-existent, 124no one is entitled to saya priorithat it is impossible (Huxley), 124but the higher stage as seen from the lower, 125when the efficient cause gives place to the final cause, 125exists because the uniformity of nature is of less importance in the sight of God than the moral growth of the human spirit, 125“the greatest I know, my conversion”(Vinet), 125our view of, determined by our belief in a moral or a non-moral God, 126is extraordinary, never arbitrary, 126not a question of power, but of rationality and love, 126implies self-restraint and self-unfolding, 126accompanied by a sacrifice of feeling on the part of Christ, 126probability of, greater from point of view of ethical monism, 126a work in which God lovingly limits himself, 126probability of, drawn from the concessions of Huxley, 127the amount of testimony necessary to prove a, 127Hume's misrepresentation of the abnormality of, 127Hume's argument against, fallacious, 127evidential force of, 128-131accompanies and attests new communications from God, 128its distribution in history, 128, 129its cessation or continuance, 128, 132, 133certifies directly not to the truth of a doctrine, but of a teacher, 129must be supported by purity of life and doctrine, 129to see in all nature the working of the living God removes prejudice against, 130the revelation of God, not the proof of that revelation, 130does not lose its value in the process of ages, 130of the resurrection sustains the authority of Christ as a teacher, 130of Christ's resurrection, is it“an obsolete picture of an eternal truth”?, 130of Christ's resurrection, has complete historical attestation, 130, 131of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by theswoon-theoryof Strauss, 131of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by thespirit-theoryof Keim, 131[pg 1096]of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by thevision-theoryof Renan, 131of Christ's resurrection, its three lessons, 131the counterfeit, 132only a direct act of God a, 132the counterfeit, attests the true, 132how the false, may be distinguished from the true, 132, 133Miracles as attesting Divine Revelation, 117-133Mohammedanism, 186, 347, 427Molecular movement and thought, 93Molecules, manufactured articles, 77Molluscs, their beauty inexplicable by“natural selection,”, 471Monarchians, 327Monism presents that deep force, in which effects, psychical and bodily, find common origin, 69there must be a basal, 80Monism, Ethical, defined, 105consistent with the teachings of Holy Writ, 105the faith of Augustine, 105the faith of Anselm, 105, 106embraces the one element of truth in pantheism, 106is entirely consistent with ethical fact, 106is Metaphysical Monism qualified by Psychological Monism, 106is supplanting Dualism in philosophic thought, 106it rejects the two main errors of pantheism, 107, 109it regards the universe as a finite, partial, and progressive revelation of God, 107, 108it regards matter as God's limitation under law of necessity, 107it regards humanity as God's self-limitation under law of freedom, 107it regards incarnation and atonement as God's self-limitation under law of grace, 107regards universe as related to God as thought to the thinker, 107regards nature as the province of God's pledged and habitual causality, 107is the doctrine largely of the poets, 107, 108guarantees individuality and rights of each portion of universe, 108in moral realm estimates worth by the voluntary recognition and appropriation of the divine, 108does not, like pantheism, involve moral indifference to the variations observed in universe, 108does not regard saint and sensualist, men and mice as of equal value, 108it regards the universe as a graded and progressing manifestation of God's love for righteousness and opposition to wrong, 108it recognizes the mysterious power of selfhood to oppose the divine law, 108it recognizes the protective and vindicatory reaction of the divine against evil, 108it gives ethical content to Spinoza's apophthegm, 'all things serve,', 108it neither cancels moral distinctions, nor minifies retribution, 108recognizes Christ as the Logos of God in its universal acceptance, 109recognizes as the Creator, Upholder, and Governor of the universe, Him who in history became incarnate and by death made atonement for human sin, 109rests on Scriptural statements, 109secures a Christian application of modern philosophical doctrine, 109gives a more fruitful conception of matter, 109considers nature as the omnipresent Christ, 109presents Christ as the unifying reality of physical, mental and moral phenomena, 109its relation to pantheism and deism, 109furnishes a foundation for new interpretation in theology and philosophy, 109helps to acceptance of Trinitarianism, 109teaches that while the natural bond uniting to God cannot be broken, the moral bond may, 109, 110how it interprets“rejecting”Christ, 110enables us to understand the principle of the atonement, 110strengthens the probability of miracle, 126teaches that God is pure and perfect mind that passes beyond all phenomena and is their ground, 255teaches that“that which hath been made was life in him,”Christ, 311teaches that in Christ all things“consist,”hold together, as cosmos rather than chaos, 311teaches that gravitation, evolution, and the laws of nature are Christ's habits, and nature but his constant will, 311[pg 1097]teaches that in Christ is the intellectual bond, the uniformity of law, the unity of truth, 311teaches that Christ is the principle of induction, the medium of interaction, and the moral attraction of the universe, reconciling all things in heaven and earth, 311teaches that God transcendent, the Father, is revealed by God immanent, the Son, 314teaches that Christ is the life of nature, 337teaches that creation is thought in expression, reason externalized, 381teaches a dualism that holds to underground connections of life between man and man, man and nature, man and God, 386teaches that the universe is a life and not a mechanism, 391teaches that God personally present in the wheat makes it grow, and in the dough turns it into bread, 411teaches that every man lives, moves, and has his being in God, and that whatever has come into being, whether material or spiritual, has its life only in Christ, 413teaches that“Dei voluntas est rerum natura,”, 413teaches that nothing finite is only finite, 413its further teaching concerning natural forces and personal beings, 413, 414, 418, 419allows of“second cause,”, 416Monogenism, modern science in favor of, 480Monophysites, 672seeEutychians.Monotheism, facts point to an original, 56, 531Hebrew, preceeds polytheistic systems of antiquity, 531, 532more and more evident in heathen religions as we trace them back, 531, 532an original, authors on, 531, 532Montanists, 304Montanus, 712Moral argument for the existence of God, the designation criticized, 81faculty, its deliverances, evidences of an intelligent cause, 82freedom, what?, 361nature of man, 497-513likeness to himself, how restored by God, 518law, what?, 537-544law, man's relations to, reach beyond consciousness, 594government of God, recognizes race-responsibilities, 594union of human and divine in Christ, 671analogies of atonement, 716evil, seeSin.obligation, its grounds determined, 298-303judgments, involve will, 841Morality, Christian, a fruit of doctrine, 16of N. T., 177, 178Christian, criticized by Mill, 179heathen systems of, 179-186of Bible, progressive, 230mere insistence on, cannot make men moral, 863“Morning stars,”, 445“Mother of God,”, 681Motive, not cause but occasion, 360, 506man never acts without or contrary to, 360a ground of prediction, 360influences, without infringing on free agency, 360the previously dominant, not always the impulsive, 360Motives, man can choose between, 360persuade but never compel, 362, 506, 649not wholly external to mind influenced by them, 506, 817lower, sometimes seemingly appealed to in Scripture, 826, 827Muratorian Canon, 147Music, reminiscent of possession lost, 526Mystic, 31, 81Mysticism, true and false, 32MystikandMysticismus, 31Myth, its nature, 155as distinguished fromsagaand legend, 155“the Divine Spirit can avail himself of”(Sabatier), 155'may be made the medium of revelation' (Denney), 214not a falsehood, 155, 214early part of Genesis may be of the nature of a, 214Myth-theory of the origin of the gospels (Strauss), 155-157described, 155, 156objected to, 156, 157authors on, 157NachwirkungandFortwirkung, 776“Name, in my,”, 807Names of God, the five Hebrew,Ewald on, 318Nascimur, pascimur, 972[pg 1098]Natura, 392Natura enim non nisi parendo vincitur, 541Natura humana in Christo capax divinæ, 694Natura naturans(Spinoza), 244, 287Natura naturata(Spinoza), 244, 287, 700Naturæ minister et interpres, 2Natural = psychical, 484Natural insight as to source of religious knowledge, 203Natural law, advantages of its general uniformity, 124events aside from its general fixity to be expected if moral ends require, 125life, God's gift of, foreshadows larger blessings, 289realism, and location of mind in body, 280revelation supplemented by Scripture, 27

Manhood of Christ, ideal, 678, 679Manichæanism, 382, 670Moriolatry, invocation of saints, and transubstantiation, origin of, 673Marriage, a type of human and divine nature in Christ, 693'Mary, mother of God,', 671, 686Material force as little observable as divine agency, 8organism, not necessarily a hindrance to activity of spirit, 1021Materialism, idealism, and pantheism, arise from desire after scientific unity, 90Materialism, what?, 90element of truth in, 90objection to, from intuition, 92objection to, from mind's attributes, 92, 93cannot explain the psychical from the physical, 93furnishes no sufficient cause for highest phenomena of universe, 94furnishes no evidence of consciousness in others, 94, 95Sadducean, denies resurrection of body, 1018recent, its services to proper views of body, 1018Materialistic Idealism, 95-100its definition, 95its development, 95-97defective in its definition of matter, 97defective in its definition of mind, 97, 98opposed to the imperative assumptions of non-empirical, transcendent knowledge of things-in-themselves, 98however modified, cumbered with the difficulties of pure materialism, 98, 99a view of, held by many Christian thinkers, 99, 100Mathematics, a disclosure of the divine nature, 261crystallized, the heavens are, 261Matter, regarded as atoms which have force as a universal and inseparable property, 90, 91in its more modern aspect, a manifestation of force, 91the Tyndall and Crookes deliverances regarding, 91mind intuitively regarded as different from it in kind, and higher in rank, 92to be regarded as secondary and subordinate to mind, 93and mind, relations between, 93, 94does it provide“the needful objectivity for God”?, 347its eternity not disprovable by reason, 374not stuff that emanated from God, 385not stuff, but an activity of God, 385according to Schelling,esprit gelé, 386its continuance dependent on God, 413made by God, and, therefore, pure, 560its capacities, as subservient to spirit, inestimable, 1021, 1022Memory, its impeccability in the case of the apostles, secured by promised Spirit, 207a preparation for the final judgment, 1026of an evil deed, becomes keener with time, 1029Memra, relation to Johannine Logos, 320Mendacium officiosum, 262Mennonites, 970Mens humana capax divinæ, 212Mens rea, essential to crime, 554Mercy, in the God of nature, some indications which point to, 113optional, 271, 296, 297defined, 289[pg 1095]divine, a matter of revelation, 296election a matter of, 779Messiah, 321, 667, 668Metaphysical generation of the soul, 493Military theory of atonement, 747Millennium, 1008-1015Mind, has no parts, yet divisible, 9its organizing instinct, 15, 16gives both final and efficient cause, 76recognizes itself as another and higher than the material organization it uses, 92its attributes and itself different in kind and higher in rank than matter, 92, 93not transformed physical force, 93the only substantive thing in the universe, all else is adjective, 94unsatisfactorily defined as a“series of feelings aware of itself,”, 97Absolute, not conditioned as the finite mind, 104“carnal,”its meaning, 592Minister, his chief qualification, 17his relation to church work, 898forfeiture of his standing as, 923, 924Miracle, a preliminary definition, 117modified definition suggested by Babbage, 117, 118“signality”must be preserved in definition of, 118preferable definition, 118, 119never regarded in Scripture as an infraction of law, 119natural processes may be in, 119the attitude of some theologians towards, irrational, 120a number of opinions upon, presented, 120possibility of, 121-123not beyond the power of a God dwelling in and controlling the universe, shown in some observations, 121-123possibility of, doubly strong to those who give the Logos or Divine Reason his place in his universe, 122possible on Lotzean view of universe, 123possible because God is not far away, 123possible because of the action and reaction between the world and the personal Absolute, 123a presumption against, 124presupposes, and derives its value from, law, 124a uniformity of nature, inconsistent with miracle, non-existent, 124no one is entitled to saya priorithat it is impossible (Huxley), 124but the higher stage as seen from the lower, 125when the efficient cause gives place to the final cause, 125exists because the uniformity of nature is of less importance in the sight of God than the moral growth of the human spirit, 125“the greatest I know, my conversion”(Vinet), 125our view of, determined by our belief in a moral or a non-moral God, 126is extraordinary, never arbitrary, 126not a question of power, but of rationality and love, 126implies self-restraint and self-unfolding, 126accompanied by a sacrifice of feeling on the part of Christ, 126probability of, greater from point of view of ethical monism, 126a work in which God lovingly limits himself, 126probability of, drawn from the concessions of Huxley, 127the amount of testimony necessary to prove a, 127Hume's misrepresentation of the abnormality of, 127Hume's argument against, fallacious, 127evidential force of, 128-131accompanies and attests new communications from God, 128its distribution in history, 128, 129its cessation or continuance, 128, 132, 133certifies directly not to the truth of a doctrine, but of a teacher, 129must be supported by purity of life and doctrine, 129to see in all nature the working of the living God removes prejudice against, 130the revelation of God, not the proof of that revelation, 130does not lose its value in the process of ages, 130of the resurrection sustains the authority of Christ as a teacher, 130of Christ's resurrection, is it“an obsolete picture of an eternal truth”?, 130of Christ's resurrection, has complete historical attestation, 130, 131of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by theswoon-theoryof Strauss, 131of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by thespirit-theoryof Keim, 131[pg 1096]of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by thevision-theoryof Renan, 131of Christ's resurrection, its three lessons, 131the counterfeit, 132only a direct act of God a, 132the counterfeit, attests the true, 132how the false, may be distinguished from the true, 132, 133Miracles as attesting Divine Revelation, 117-133Mohammedanism, 186, 347, 427Molecular movement and thought, 93Molecules, manufactured articles, 77Molluscs, their beauty inexplicable by“natural selection,”, 471Monarchians, 327Monism presents that deep force, in which effects, psychical and bodily, find common origin, 69there must be a basal, 80Monism, Ethical, defined, 105consistent with the teachings of Holy Writ, 105the faith of Augustine, 105the faith of Anselm, 105, 106embraces the one element of truth in pantheism, 106is entirely consistent with ethical fact, 106is Metaphysical Monism qualified by Psychological Monism, 106is supplanting Dualism in philosophic thought, 106it rejects the two main errors of pantheism, 107, 109it regards the universe as a finite, partial, and progressive revelation of God, 107, 108it regards matter as God's limitation under law of necessity, 107it regards humanity as God's self-limitation under law of freedom, 107it regards incarnation and atonement as God's self-limitation under law of grace, 107regards universe as related to God as thought to the thinker, 107regards nature as the province of God's pledged and habitual causality, 107is the doctrine largely of the poets, 107, 108guarantees individuality and rights of each portion of universe, 108in moral realm estimates worth by the voluntary recognition and appropriation of the divine, 108does not, like pantheism, involve moral indifference to the variations observed in universe, 108does not regard saint and sensualist, men and mice as of equal value, 108it regards the universe as a graded and progressing manifestation of God's love for righteousness and opposition to wrong, 108it recognizes the mysterious power of selfhood to oppose the divine law, 108it recognizes the protective and vindicatory reaction of the divine against evil, 108it gives ethical content to Spinoza's apophthegm, 'all things serve,', 108it neither cancels moral distinctions, nor minifies retribution, 108recognizes Christ as the Logos of God in its universal acceptance, 109recognizes as the Creator, Upholder, and Governor of the universe, Him who in history became incarnate and by death made atonement for human sin, 109rests on Scriptural statements, 109secures a Christian application of modern philosophical doctrine, 109gives a more fruitful conception of matter, 109considers nature as the omnipresent Christ, 109presents Christ as the unifying reality of physical, mental and moral phenomena, 109its relation to pantheism and deism, 109furnishes a foundation for new interpretation in theology and philosophy, 109helps to acceptance of Trinitarianism, 109teaches that while the natural bond uniting to God cannot be broken, the moral bond may, 109, 110how it interprets“rejecting”Christ, 110enables us to understand the principle of the atonement, 110strengthens the probability of miracle, 126teaches that God is pure and perfect mind that passes beyond all phenomena and is their ground, 255teaches that“that which hath been made was life in him,”Christ, 311teaches that in Christ all things“consist,”hold together, as cosmos rather than chaos, 311teaches that gravitation, evolution, and the laws of nature are Christ's habits, and nature but his constant will, 311[pg 1097]teaches that in Christ is the intellectual bond, the uniformity of law, the unity of truth, 311teaches that Christ is the principle of induction, the medium of interaction, and the moral attraction of the universe, reconciling all things in heaven and earth, 311teaches that God transcendent, the Father, is revealed by God immanent, the Son, 314teaches that Christ is the life of nature, 337teaches that creation is thought in expression, reason externalized, 381teaches a dualism that holds to underground connections of life between man and man, man and nature, man and God, 386teaches that the universe is a life and not a mechanism, 391teaches that God personally present in the wheat makes it grow, and in the dough turns it into bread, 411teaches that every man lives, moves, and has his being in God, and that whatever has come into being, whether material or spiritual, has its life only in Christ, 413teaches that“Dei voluntas est rerum natura,”, 413teaches that nothing finite is only finite, 413its further teaching concerning natural forces and personal beings, 413, 414, 418, 419allows of“second cause,”, 416Monogenism, modern science in favor of, 480Monophysites, 672seeEutychians.Monotheism, facts point to an original, 56, 531Hebrew, preceeds polytheistic systems of antiquity, 531, 532more and more evident in heathen religions as we trace them back, 531, 532an original, authors on, 531, 532Montanists, 304Montanus, 712Moral argument for the existence of God, the designation criticized, 81faculty, its deliverances, evidences of an intelligent cause, 82freedom, what?, 361nature of man, 497-513likeness to himself, how restored by God, 518law, what?, 537-544law, man's relations to, reach beyond consciousness, 594government of God, recognizes race-responsibilities, 594union of human and divine in Christ, 671analogies of atonement, 716evil, seeSin.obligation, its grounds determined, 298-303judgments, involve will, 841Morality, Christian, a fruit of doctrine, 16of N. T., 177, 178Christian, criticized by Mill, 179heathen systems of, 179-186of Bible, progressive, 230mere insistence on, cannot make men moral, 863“Morning stars,”, 445“Mother of God,”, 681Motive, not cause but occasion, 360, 506man never acts without or contrary to, 360a ground of prediction, 360influences, without infringing on free agency, 360the previously dominant, not always the impulsive, 360Motives, man can choose between, 360persuade but never compel, 362, 506, 649not wholly external to mind influenced by them, 506, 817lower, sometimes seemingly appealed to in Scripture, 826, 827Muratorian Canon, 147Music, reminiscent of possession lost, 526Mystic, 31, 81Mysticism, true and false, 32MystikandMysticismus, 31Myth, its nature, 155as distinguished fromsagaand legend, 155“the Divine Spirit can avail himself of”(Sabatier), 155'may be made the medium of revelation' (Denney), 214not a falsehood, 155, 214early part of Genesis may be of the nature of a, 214Myth-theory of the origin of the gospels (Strauss), 155-157described, 155, 156objected to, 156, 157authors on, 157NachwirkungandFortwirkung, 776“Name, in my,”, 807Names of God, the five Hebrew,Ewald on, 318Nascimur, pascimur, 972[pg 1098]Natura, 392Natura enim non nisi parendo vincitur, 541Natura humana in Christo capax divinæ, 694Natura naturans(Spinoza), 244, 287Natura naturata(Spinoza), 244, 287, 700Naturæ minister et interpres, 2Natural = psychical, 484Natural insight as to source of religious knowledge, 203Natural law, advantages of its general uniformity, 124events aside from its general fixity to be expected if moral ends require, 125life, God's gift of, foreshadows larger blessings, 289realism, and location of mind in body, 280revelation supplemented by Scripture, 27

Manhood of Christ, ideal, 678, 679

Manhood of Christ, ideal, 678, 679

Manichæanism, 382, 670

Manichæanism, 382, 670

Moriolatry, invocation of saints, and transubstantiation, origin of, 673

Moriolatry, invocation of saints, and transubstantiation, origin of, 673

Marriage, a type of human and divine nature in Christ, 693

Marriage, a type of human and divine nature in Christ, 693

'Mary, mother of God,', 671, 686

'Mary, mother of God,', 671, 686

Material force as little observable as divine agency, 8organism, not necessarily a hindrance to activity of spirit, 1021

Material force as little observable as divine agency, 8

organism, not necessarily a hindrance to activity of spirit, 1021

Materialism, idealism, and pantheism, arise from desire after scientific unity, 90

Materialism, idealism, and pantheism, arise from desire after scientific unity, 90

Materialism, what?, 90element of truth in, 90objection to, from intuition, 92objection to, from mind's attributes, 92, 93cannot explain the psychical from the physical, 93furnishes no sufficient cause for highest phenomena of universe, 94furnishes no evidence of consciousness in others, 94, 95Sadducean, denies resurrection of body, 1018recent, its services to proper views of body, 1018

Materialism, what?, 90

element of truth in, 90

objection to, from intuition, 92

objection to, from mind's attributes, 92, 93

cannot explain the psychical from the physical, 93

furnishes no sufficient cause for highest phenomena of universe, 94

furnishes no evidence of consciousness in others, 94, 95

Sadducean, denies resurrection of body, 1018

recent, its services to proper views of body, 1018

Materialistic Idealism, 95-100its definition, 95its development, 95-97defective in its definition of matter, 97defective in its definition of mind, 97, 98opposed to the imperative assumptions of non-empirical, transcendent knowledge of things-in-themselves, 98however modified, cumbered with the difficulties of pure materialism, 98, 99a view of, held by many Christian thinkers, 99, 100

Materialistic Idealism, 95-100

its definition, 95

its development, 95-97

defective in its definition of matter, 97

defective in its definition of mind, 97, 98

opposed to the imperative assumptions of non-empirical, transcendent knowledge of things-in-themselves, 98

however modified, cumbered with the difficulties of pure materialism, 98, 99

a view of, held by many Christian thinkers, 99, 100

Mathematics, a disclosure of the divine nature, 261crystallized, the heavens are, 261

Mathematics, a disclosure of the divine nature, 261

crystallized, the heavens are, 261

Matter, regarded as atoms which have force as a universal and inseparable property, 90, 91in its more modern aspect, a manifestation of force, 91the Tyndall and Crookes deliverances regarding, 91mind intuitively regarded as different from it in kind, and higher in rank, 92to be regarded as secondary and subordinate to mind, 93and mind, relations between, 93, 94does it provide“the needful objectivity for God”?, 347its eternity not disprovable by reason, 374not stuff that emanated from God, 385not stuff, but an activity of God, 385according to Schelling,esprit gelé, 386its continuance dependent on God, 413made by God, and, therefore, pure, 560its capacities, as subservient to spirit, inestimable, 1021, 1022

Matter, regarded as atoms which have force as a universal and inseparable property, 90, 91

in its more modern aspect, a manifestation of force, 91

the Tyndall and Crookes deliverances regarding, 91

mind intuitively regarded as different from it in kind, and higher in rank, 92

to be regarded as secondary and subordinate to mind, 93

and mind, relations between, 93, 94

does it provide“the needful objectivity for God”?, 347

its eternity not disprovable by reason, 374

not stuff that emanated from God, 385

not stuff, but an activity of God, 385

according to Schelling,esprit gelé, 386

its continuance dependent on God, 413

made by God, and, therefore, pure, 560

its capacities, as subservient to spirit, inestimable, 1021, 1022

Memory, its impeccability in the case of the apostles, secured by promised Spirit, 207a preparation for the final judgment, 1026of an evil deed, becomes keener with time, 1029

Memory, its impeccability in the case of the apostles, secured by promised Spirit, 207

a preparation for the final judgment, 1026

of an evil deed, becomes keener with time, 1029

Memra, relation to Johannine Logos, 320

Memra, relation to Johannine Logos, 320

Mendacium officiosum, 262

Mendacium officiosum, 262

Mennonites, 970

Mennonites, 970

Mens humana capax divinæ, 212

Mens humana capax divinæ, 212

Mens rea, essential to crime, 554

Mens rea, essential to crime, 554

Mercy, in the God of nature, some indications which point to, 113optional, 271, 296, 297defined, 289[pg 1095]divine, a matter of revelation, 296election a matter of, 779

Mercy, in the God of nature, some indications which point to, 113

optional, 271, 296, 297

defined, 289

divine, a matter of revelation, 296

election a matter of, 779

Messiah, 321, 667, 668

Messiah, 321, 667, 668

Metaphysical generation of the soul, 493

Metaphysical generation of the soul, 493

Military theory of atonement, 747

Military theory of atonement, 747

Millennium, 1008-1015

Millennium, 1008-1015

Mind, has no parts, yet divisible, 9its organizing instinct, 15, 16gives both final and efficient cause, 76recognizes itself as another and higher than the material organization it uses, 92its attributes and itself different in kind and higher in rank than matter, 92, 93not transformed physical force, 93the only substantive thing in the universe, all else is adjective, 94unsatisfactorily defined as a“series of feelings aware of itself,”, 97Absolute, not conditioned as the finite mind, 104“carnal,”its meaning, 592

Mind, has no parts, yet divisible, 9

its organizing instinct, 15, 16

gives both final and efficient cause, 76

recognizes itself as another and higher than the material organization it uses, 92

its attributes and itself different in kind and higher in rank than matter, 92, 93

not transformed physical force, 93

the only substantive thing in the universe, all else is adjective, 94

unsatisfactorily defined as a“series of feelings aware of itself,”, 97

Absolute, not conditioned as the finite mind, 104

“carnal,”its meaning, 592

Minister, his chief qualification, 17his relation to church work, 898forfeiture of his standing as, 923, 924

Minister, his chief qualification, 17

his relation to church work, 898

forfeiture of his standing as, 923, 924

Miracle, a preliminary definition, 117modified definition suggested by Babbage, 117, 118“signality”must be preserved in definition of, 118preferable definition, 118, 119never regarded in Scripture as an infraction of law, 119natural processes may be in, 119the attitude of some theologians towards, irrational, 120a number of opinions upon, presented, 120possibility of, 121-123not beyond the power of a God dwelling in and controlling the universe, shown in some observations, 121-123possibility of, doubly strong to those who give the Logos or Divine Reason his place in his universe, 122possible on Lotzean view of universe, 123possible because God is not far away, 123possible because of the action and reaction between the world and the personal Absolute, 123a presumption against, 124presupposes, and derives its value from, law, 124a uniformity of nature, inconsistent with miracle, non-existent, 124no one is entitled to saya priorithat it is impossible (Huxley), 124but the higher stage as seen from the lower, 125when the efficient cause gives place to the final cause, 125exists because the uniformity of nature is of less importance in the sight of God than the moral growth of the human spirit, 125“the greatest I know, my conversion”(Vinet), 125our view of, determined by our belief in a moral or a non-moral God, 126is extraordinary, never arbitrary, 126not a question of power, but of rationality and love, 126implies self-restraint and self-unfolding, 126accompanied by a sacrifice of feeling on the part of Christ, 126probability of, greater from point of view of ethical monism, 126a work in which God lovingly limits himself, 126probability of, drawn from the concessions of Huxley, 127the amount of testimony necessary to prove a, 127Hume's misrepresentation of the abnormality of, 127Hume's argument against, fallacious, 127evidential force of, 128-131accompanies and attests new communications from God, 128its distribution in history, 128, 129its cessation or continuance, 128, 132, 133certifies directly not to the truth of a doctrine, but of a teacher, 129must be supported by purity of life and doctrine, 129to see in all nature the working of the living God removes prejudice against, 130the revelation of God, not the proof of that revelation, 130does not lose its value in the process of ages, 130of the resurrection sustains the authority of Christ as a teacher, 130of Christ's resurrection, is it“an obsolete picture of an eternal truth”?, 130of Christ's resurrection, has complete historical attestation, 130, 131of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by theswoon-theoryof Strauss, 131of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by thespirit-theoryof Keim, 131[pg 1096]of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by thevision-theoryof Renan, 131of Christ's resurrection, its three lessons, 131the counterfeit, 132only a direct act of God a, 132the counterfeit, attests the true, 132how the false, may be distinguished from the true, 132, 133

Miracle, a preliminary definition, 117

modified definition suggested by Babbage, 117, 118

“signality”must be preserved in definition of, 118

preferable definition, 118, 119

never regarded in Scripture as an infraction of law, 119

natural processes may be in, 119

the attitude of some theologians towards, irrational, 120

a number of opinions upon, presented, 120

possibility of, 121-123

not beyond the power of a God dwelling in and controlling the universe, shown in some observations, 121-123

possibility of, doubly strong to those who give the Logos or Divine Reason his place in his universe, 122

possible on Lotzean view of universe, 123

possible because God is not far away, 123

possible because of the action and reaction between the world and the personal Absolute, 123

a presumption against, 124

presupposes, and derives its value from, law, 124

a uniformity of nature, inconsistent with miracle, non-existent, 124

no one is entitled to saya priorithat it is impossible (Huxley), 124

but the higher stage as seen from the lower, 125

when the efficient cause gives place to the final cause, 125

exists because the uniformity of nature is of less importance in the sight of God than the moral growth of the human spirit, 125

“the greatest I know, my conversion”(Vinet), 125

our view of, determined by our belief in a moral or a non-moral God, 126

is extraordinary, never arbitrary, 126

not a question of power, but of rationality and love, 126

implies self-restraint and self-unfolding, 126

accompanied by a sacrifice of feeling on the part of Christ, 126

probability of, greater from point of view of ethical monism, 126

a work in which God lovingly limits himself, 126

probability of, drawn from the concessions of Huxley, 127

the amount of testimony necessary to prove a, 127

Hume's misrepresentation of the abnormality of, 127

Hume's argument against, fallacious, 127

evidential force of, 128-131

accompanies and attests new communications from God, 128

its distribution in history, 128, 129

its cessation or continuance, 128, 132, 133

certifies directly not to the truth of a doctrine, but of a teacher, 129

must be supported by purity of life and doctrine, 129

to see in all nature the working of the living God removes prejudice against, 130

the revelation of God, not the proof of that revelation, 130

does not lose its value in the process of ages, 130

of the resurrection sustains the authority of Christ as a teacher, 130

of Christ's resurrection, is it“an obsolete picture of an eternal truth”?, 130

of Christ's resurrection, has complete historical attestation, 130, 131

of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by theswoon-theoryof Strauss, 131

of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by thespirit-theoryof Keim, 131

of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by thevision-theoryof Renan, 131

of Christ's resurrection, its three lessons, 131

the counterfeit, 132

only a direct act of God a, 132

the counterfeit, attests the true, 132

how the false, may be distinguished from the true, 132, 133

Miracles as attesting Divine Revelation, 117-133

Miracles as attesting Divine Revelation, 117-133

Mohammedanism, 186, 347, 427

Mohammedanism, 186, 347, 427

Molecular movement and thought, 93

Molecular movement and thought, 93

Molecules, manufactured articles, 77

Molecules, manufactured articles, 77

Molluscs, their beauty inexplicable by“natural selection,”, 471

Molluscs, their beauty inexplicable by“natural selection,”, 471

Monarchians, 327

Monarchians, 327

Monism presents that deep force, in which effects, psychical and bodily, find common origin, 69there must be a basal, 80

Monism presents that deep force, in which effects, psychical and bodily, find common origin, 69

there must be a basal, 80

Monism, Ethical, defined, 105consistent with the teachings of Holy Writ, 105the faith of Augustine, 105the faith of Anselm, 105, 106embraces the one element of truth in pantheism, 106is entirely consistent with ethical fact, 106is Metaphysical Monism qualified by Psychological Monism, 106is supplanting Dualism in philosophic thought, 106it rejects the two main errors of pantheism, 107, 109it regards the universe as a finite, partial, and progressive revelation of God, 107, 108it regards matter as God's limitation under law of necessity, 107it regards humanity as God's self-limitation under law of freedom, 107it regards incarnation and atonement as God's self-limitation under law of grace, 107regards universe as related to God as thought to the thinker, 107regards nature as the province of God's pledged and habitual causality, 107is the doctrine largely of the poets, 107, 108guarantees individuality and rights of each portion of universe, 108in moral realm estimates worth by the voluntary recognition and appropriation of the divine, 108does not, like pantheism, involve moral indifference to the variations observed in universe, 108does not regard saint and sensualist, men and mice as of equal value, 108it regards the universe as a graded and progressing manifestation of God's love for righteousness and opposition to wrong, 108it recognizes the mysterious power of selfhood to oppose the divine law, 108it recognizes the protective and vindicatory reaction of the divine against evil, 108it gives ethical content to Spinoza's apophthegm, 'all things serve,', 108it neither cancels moral distinctions, nor minifies retribution, 108recognizes Christ as the Logos of God in its universal acceptance, 109recognizes as the Creator, Upholder, and Governor of the universe, Him who in history became incarnate and by death made atonement for human sin, 109rests on Scriptural statements, 109secures a Christian application of modern philosophical doctrine, 109gives a more fruitful conception of matter, 109considers nature as the omnipresent Christ, 109presents Christ as the unifying reality of physical, mental and moral phenomena, 109its relation to pantheism and deism, 109furnishes a foundation for new interpretation in theology and philosophy, 109helps to acceptance of Trinitarianism, 109teaches that while the natural bond uniting to God cannot be broken, the moral bond may, 109, 110how it interprets“rejecting”Christ, 110enables us to understand the principle of the atonement, 110strengthens the probability of miracle, 126teaches that God is pure and perfect mind that passes beyond all phenomena and is their ground, 255teaches that“that which hath been made was life in him,”Christ, 311teaches that in Christ all things“consist,”hold together, as cosmos rather than chaos, 311teaches that gravitation, evolution, and the laws of nature are Christ's habits, and nature but his constant will, 311[pg 1097]teaches that in Christ is the intellectual bond, the uniformity of law, the unity of truth, 311teaches that Christ is the principle of induction, the medium of interaction, and the moral attraction of the universe, reconciling all things in heaven and earth, 311teaches that God transcendent, the Father, is revealed by God immanent, the Son, 314teaches that Christ is the life of nature, 337teaches that creation is thought in expression, reason externalized, 381teaches a dualism that holds to underground connections of life between man and man, man and nature, man and God, 386teaches that the universe is a life and not a mechanism, 391teaches that God personally present in the wheat makes it grow, and in the dough turns it into bread, 411teaches that every man lives, moves, and has his being in God, and that whatever has come into being, whether material or spiritual, has its life only in Christ, 413teaches that“Dei voluntas est rerum natura,”, 413teaches that nothing finite is only finite, 413its further teaching concerning natural forces and personal beings, 413, 414, 418, 419allows of“second cause,”, 416

Monism, Ethical, defined, 105

consistent with the teachings of Holy Writ, 105

the faith of Augustine, 105

the faith of Anselm, 105, 106

embraces the one element of truth in pantheism, 106

is entirely consistent with ethical fact, 106

is Metaphysical Monism qualified by Psychological Monism, 106

is supplanting Dualism in philosophic thought, 106

it rejects the two main errors of pantheism, 107, 109

it regards the universe as a finite, partial, and progressive revelation of God, 107, 108

it regards matter as God's limitation under law of necessity, 107

it regards humanity as God's self-limitation under law of freedom, 107

it regards incarnation and atonement as God's self-limitation under law of grace, 107

regards universe as related to God as thought to the thinker, 107

regards nature as the province of God's pledged and habitual causality, 107

is the doctrine largely of the poets, 107, 108

guarantees individuality and rights of each portion of universe, 108

in moral realm estimates worth by the voluntary recognition and appropriation of the divine, 108

does not, like pantheism, involve moral indifference to the variations observed in universe, 108

does not regard saint and sensualist, men and mice as of equal value, 108

it regards the universe as a graded and progressing manifestation of God's love for righteousness and opposition to wrong, 108

it recognizes the mysterious power of selfhood to oppose the divine law, 108

it recognizes the protective and vindicatory reaction of the divine against evil, 108

it gives ethical content to Spinoza's apophthegm, 'all things serve,', 108

it neither cancels moral distinctions, nor minifies retribution, 108

recognizes Christ as the Logos of God in its universal acceptance, 109

recognizes as the Creator, Upholder, and Governor of the universe, Him who in history became incarnate and by death made atonement for human sin, 109

rests on Scriptural statements, 109

secures a Christian application of modern philosophical doctrine, 109

gives a more fruitful conception of matter, 109

considers nature as the omnipresent Christ, 109

presents Christ as the unifying reality of physical, mental and moral phenomena, 109

its relation to pantheism and deism, 109

furnishes a foundation for new interpretation in theology and philosophy, 109

helps to acceptance of Trinitarianism, 109

teaches that while the natural bond uniting to God cannot be broken, the moral bond may, 109, 110

how it interprets“rejecting”Christ, 110

enables us to understand the principle of the atonement, 110

strengthens the probability of miracle, 126

teaches that God is pure and perfect mind that passes beyond all phenomena and is their ground, 255

teaches that“that which hath been made was life in him,”Christ, 311

teaches that in Christ all things“consist,”hold together, as cosmos rather than chaos, 311

teaches that gravitation, evolution, and the laws of nature are Christ's habits, and nature but his constant will, 311

teaches that in Christ is the intellectual bond, the uniformity of law, the unity of truth, 311

teaches that Christ is the principle of induction, the medium of interaction, and the moral attraction of the universe, reconciling all things in heaven and earth, 311

teaches that God transcendent, the Father, is revealed by God immanent, the Son, 314

teaches that Christ is the life of nature, 337

teaches that creation is thought in expression, reason externalized, 381

teaches a dualism that holds to underground connections of life between man and man, man and nature, man and God, 386

teaches that the universe is a life and not a mechanism, 391

teaches that God personally present in the wheat makes it grow, and in the dough turns it into bread, 411

teaches that every man lives, moves, and has his being in God, and that whatever has come into being, whether material or spiritual, has its life only in Christ, 413

teaches that“Dei voluntas est rerum natura,”, 413

teaches that nothing finite is only finite, 413

its further teaching concerning natural forces and personal beings, 413, 414, 418, 419

allows of“second cause,”, 416

Monogenism, modern science in favor of, 480

Monogenism, modern science in favor of, 480

Monophysites, 672seeEutychians.

Monophysites, 672

seeEutychians.

Monotheism, facts point to an original, 56, 531Hebrew, preceeds polytheistic systems of antiquity, 531, 532more and more evident in heathen religions as we trace them back, 531, 532an original, authors on, 531, 532

Monotheism, facts point to an original, 56, 531

Hebrew, preceeds polytheistic systems of antiquity, 531, 532

more and more evident in heathen religions as we trace them back, 531, 532

an original, authors on, 531, 532

Montanists, 304

Montanists, 304

Montanus, 712

Montanus, 712

Moral argument for the existence of God, the designation criticized, 81faculty, its deliverances, evidences of an intelligent cause, 82freedom, what?, 361nature of man, 497-513likeness to himself, how restored by God, 518law, what?, 537-544law, man's relations to, reach beyond consciousness, 594government of God, recognizes race-responsibilities, 594union of human and divine in Christ, 671analogies of atonement, 716evil, seeSin.obligation, its grounds determined, 298-303judgments, involve will, 841

Moral argument for the existence of God, the designation criticized, 81

faculty, its deliverances, evidences of an intelligent cause, 82

freedom, what?, 361

nature of man, 497-513

likeness to himself, how restored by God, 518

law, what?, 537-544

law, man's relations to, reach beyond consciousness, 594

government of God, recognizes race-responsibilities, 594

union of human and divine in Christ, 671

analogies of atonement, 716

evil, seeSin.

obligation, its grounds determined, 298-303

judgments, involve will, 841

Morality, Christian, a fruit of doctrine, 16of N. T., 177, 178Christian, criticized by Mill, 179heathen systems of, 179-186of Bible, progressive, 230mere insistence on, cannot make men moral, 863

Morality, Christian, a fruit of doctrine, 16

of N. T., 177, 178

Christian, criticized by Mill, 179

heathen systems of, 179-186

of Bible, progressive, 230

mere insistence on, cannot make men moral, 863

“Morning stars,”, 445

“Morning stars,”, 445

“Mother of God,”, 681

“Mother of God,”, 681

Motive, not cause but occasion, 360, 506man never acts without or contrary to, 360a ground of prediction, 360influences, without infringing on free agency, 360the previously dominant, not always the impulsive, 360

Motive, not cause but occasion, 360, 506

man never acts without or contrary to, 360

a ground of prediction, 360

influences, without infringing on free agency, 360

the previously dominant, not always the impulsive, 360

Motives, man can choose between, 360persuade but never compel, 362, 506, 649not wholly external to mind influenced by them, 506, 817lower, sometimes seemingly appealed to in Scripture, 826, 827

Motives, man can choose between, 360

persuade but never compel, 362, 506, 649

not wholly external to mind influenced by them, 506, 817

lower, sometimes seemingly appealed to in Scripture, 826, 827

Muratorian Canon, 147

Muratorian Canon, 147

Music, reminiscent of possession lost, 526

Music, reminiscent of possession lost, 526

Mystic, 31, 81

Mystic, 31, 81

Mysticism, true and false, 32

Mysticism, true and false, 32

MystikandMysticismus, 31

MystikandMysticismus, 31

Myth, its nature, 155as distinguished fromsagaand legend, 155“the Divine Spirit can avail himself of”(Sabatier), 155'may be made the medium of revelation' (Denney), 214not a falsehood, 155, 214early part of Genesis may be of the nature of a, 214

Myth, its nature, 155

as distinguished fromsagaand legend, 155

“the Divine Spirit can avail himself of”(Sabatier), 155

'may be made the medium of revelation' (Denney), 214

not a falsehood, 155, 214

early part of Genesis may be of the nature of a, 214

Myth-theory of the origin of the gospels (Strauss), 155-157described, 155, 156objected to, 156, 157authors on, 157

Myth-theory of the origin of the gospels (Strauss), 155-157

described, 155, 156

objected to, 156, 157

authors on, 157

NachwirkungandFortwirkung, 776

NachwirkungandFortwirkung, 776

“Name, in my,”, 807

“Name, in my,”, 807

Names of God, the five Hebrew,Ewald on, 318

Names of God, the five Hebrew,

Ewald on, 318

Nascimur, pascimur, 972

Nascimur, pascimur, 972

Natura, 392

Natura, 392

Natura enim non nisi parendo vincitur, 541

Natura enim non nisi parendo vincitur, 541

Natura humana in Christo capax divinæ, 694

Natura humana in Christo capax divinæ, 694

Natura naturans(Spinoza), 244, 287

Natura naturans(Spinoza), 244, 287

Natura naturata(Spinoza), 244, 287, 700

Natura naturata(Spinoza), 244, 287, 700

Naturæ minister et interpres, 2

Naturæ minister et interpres, 2

Natural = psychical, 484

Natural = psychical, 484

Natural insight as to source of religious knowledge, 203

Natural insight as to source of religious knowledge, 203

Natural law, advantages of its general uniformity, 124events aside from its general fixity to be expected if moral ends require, 125life, God's gift of, foreshadows larger blessings, 289realism, and location of mind in body, 280revelation supplemented by Scripture, 27

Natural law, advantages of its general uniformity, 124

events aside from its general fixity to be expected if moral ends require, 125

life, God's gift of, foreshadows larger blessings, 289

realism, and location of mind in body, 280

revelation supplemented by Scripture, 27


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