CHAPTER IV

The Ultimate Explanation and Ground of the Social Consciousness[35]

  1. How can it be, Metaphysically, that we do Influence One Another? [35]
    1. Not Due to the Physical Fact of Race-Connection[36]
    2. We are not to Over-Emphasize the Principle of Heredity[37]
    3. Not Due to a Mystical Solidarity[39]
    4. Grounded in the Immanence of God[40]
  2. What is Required for the Final Positive Justification of the Social Consciousness, as Ethical?[44]
    1. Must be Grounded in the Supporting Will of God[44]
    2. God's Sharing in our Life[48]
    3. The Consequent Transfiguration of the Social Consciousness[49]

THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS UPON
THE CONCEPTION OF RELIGION

Introduction[53]

CHAPTER V

The Opposition of the Social Consciousness to the Falsely Mystical[55]

  1. What is the Falsely Mystical?[55]
    1. Nash's Definition[55]
    2. Herrmann's Definition[56]
  2. The Objections of the Social Consciousness to the Falsely Mystical[57]
    1. Unethical[58]
    2. Does not Give a Really Personal God[58]
    3. Belittles the Personal in Man[59]
    4. Leaves the Historically, Concretely Christian[62]

CHAPTER VI

The Emphasis of the Social Consciousness Upon the Personal Relation in Religion,
and so Upon the Truly Mystical[66]