ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the leading men among orthodox Christians, since they no longer seem to desire to interpose any insuperable protest against overhauling from time to time the material and historical assertions associated with Christianity. The statement that the Christ depicts in the gospels is God, is a statement illustrative of our conception of Godhead, and not really an explanatory statement concerning Christ: one cannot explain the known terms of the unknown. The spirit and essence have preserved their identity; the accidentals, in Judaea, in ancient Rome, in mediaeval Germany, in modern England and America, the accidentals have been different. The evangelical or spiritual Christianity, associated with the name of Paul seeks to emphasise a forensic scheme of salvation, and links to the Hebraistic and Hellenistic ideas of blood and vicarious sacrifice. The perception of a human God, or of a God in the form of humanity, is a perception which welds together Christianity and Pantheism and Paganism and Philosophy.
