ABSTRACT
Criticism of traditional beliefs and attitudes is always necessary if religion is to be kept pure and if theology is to be kept in touch with religious experience. Such criticism is an enquiry into the principles of religion, it is not merely a study of human nature, but an attempt, however imperfect, to examine what can be reasonably believed about the nature of God and his relation to man. No man can hope to understand divine action from God's own point of view if such absurdly misleading words can be used for God's knowledge of himself. If we presume to speak about God's intuitive understanding of Himself, the objections raised against an argument falsely supposed to be valid for finite thinking cease at once to have any force. In response to charges of meaningless talk I have permitted myself to deviate into a speculative theology which attempts to envisage God's actions as they are in themselves.
