[2] The Coming People, by the same author, p. 49.
[3] The Over-Emphasis of Sin, by the Rev. Alexander Brown, in the Hibbert Journal, April, 1909, p. 616.
[4] The Theology of Civilisation, p. 61. It would, of course, have been easy to give references from other authors; but there is an extraordinary family-likeness between the writers of this School, extending down to the very phrasing of their ideas.
[5] A Study of Religion, vol. ii., pp. 166, 179.
[6] Theology of Civilisation, p. 129.
[7] The Rev. Alexander Brown, loc. cit., p. 619; italics ours.
[8] Dole, op. cit., p. 101.
[9] The analogy of the tyro and the expert chess-player—the tyro "free," yet the expert foreseeing and holding the issue of the game in his own hands—is only superficially plausible. There seems, however, one other possible explanatory hypothesis, though it is here advanced only in the most tentative manner: may it not be possible for the Most High to impose a limitation upon His infinite knowledge corresponding to that self-limitation of His infinite power which we regard as a necessary assumption? It would be difficult on a priori grounds to declare such a thing to be inconceivable. When Paul spoke of himself as "determined not to know anything save Jesus Christ," he signified his intention of shutting out from his knowledge whole ranges of facts, for reasons dictated by the purpose he had in hand; and as a matter of every-day experience, we all practise something like this habitually, voluntarily narrowing the range of our consciousness and our immediate interests for one cause and another. Might not God, if the reality of our freedom could not be guaranteed in any other way, and if that freedom was necessary for the attainment of His purpose with man, forbear in some measure, however slight, to exercise His omniscience? We are well aware that the subject admits of nothing more than reverent surmise; and having stated our suggestion, we simply leave it with the reader as one of those possibilities which will appeal differently to different minds.
[10] Types of Ethical Theory, vol. ii., pp. 31 ff.
[11] Spinoza, p. 195.