ABSTRACT
T. H. Green's philosophy did not find the type of reception because it was a conventional or familiar doctrine. As a theology, Evangelicalism preached little more than that doctrine of justification by faith which Protestantism claimed to be the essence of St. Augustine and the Pauline epistles. Actually the Wesleys taught an infinitely simpler doctrine than that of the original Protestant reformers. In Green's Oxford, religion was the obsessive issue that eclipsed all others. In the memoirs of his more articulate contemporaries, again and again the same note is struck: always the recurring, undermining doubt raised by science and scholarship at war with the will to believe. Although the details of Green's theology are derived from a highly technical philosophical position, his conclusions are stated with relative clarity in his lay sermons. There he claims that the role of the philosopher is to begin with those facts which we know and act upon.
