ABSTRACT
The freedom of will and consciousness requires a delicate appreciation when it involves relations of the divine and the human, as implicating the doctrines of Jesus concerning it, for these afford little of favorable countenance to the current notions of free will, as affecting human responsibility and retribution. Of all the world's religious teachers, Jesus was the most explicit and persistent in the denial of man's originality, and especially of his self-relation. The adjustment of the citizen's inspired action to the requirements of national and social government was a problem which more than transiently concerned Jesus. The personal psychology of the Master is as obscure as was his social environment. Author's immediate interest in Jesus lies in the metaphysical weight of his emphasis upon what we regard as the philosophical fact that personality can bear but a part of the burden of explanation.
