Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Retribution and Other Addresses
Christianity is founded upon a special form of the idea of God. It does not teach us to regard him as Cause, or even as Being, but in a quite special relation to us, as the Father of men. Philosophy may consider God as Cause, or science may speak of him as Force, but it was the faith in the Divine Fatherhood that quickened the soul Of Jesus, and prepared him to be come the world's Savior.
Religion, however, no less than science, is interested in finding a way to think of God's relation to the world. In any true or proper sense, are we the work of his hand? The word work seems to sug gest the mechanic or the artist. Is God related to nature as the sculptor is to the statue or the carpenter to his house? Ac cording to such a View, God may be at work, or he may be at rest. He may be present in the world, or he may leave it. The universe is his creation, indeed; but it is something wholly external to him it is his work, but it is by no means his living garment.
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