ABSTRACT

One constituent, the author think, is the greater power which a blow delivered from a height has because it is reinforced by gravity. He can only put forward with a query what seem to me the constituents of the feeling attached to the idea of height. All the same the feeling must, the author think, depend in part upon man's experience of gravity. In German Protestantism the Otherness of God is asserted to-day as the central thing in his message by Karl Barth. The symbol of diverse dimensions is now a favourite one with German religious thinkers to express the difference of God's being from our own. Another Christian thinker in Germany, Karl Heim, who holds a chair of philosophy in Tubingen, has put forward in his book, Glaube und Denken, a philosophy of religion, in which the symbol of diverse dimensions is worked out further than in Barth.