Guarding the Conception 208 2. God is Always the Completely Personal God 212 (1) Consequent Relation of God to "Eternal Truths" 212 (2) Eternal Creation 214 (3) The Unity and Unchangeableness of God 216 (4) The Limitations of the Conception of Immanence 217 3. Deepening the Thought of the Fatherhood of God 218 (1) History, no Mere Natural Process 218 (2) God, the Great Servant 219 (3) No Divine Arbitrariness 220 (4) The Passibility of God 221 4. As to the Doctrine of a Social Trinity 222 5. Preëminent Reverence for Personality, Characterizing all God's Relations with Men 226 (1) Reflected in Christ 226 (2) In Creation 230 (3) In Providence 232 (4) In Our Personal Religious Life 233 (5) In the Judgment 237 (6) In the Future Life 240 THEOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS INTRODUCTION _THE THEME_ No theologian can be excused to-day from a careful study of the relations of theology and the social consciousness. Whether this study becomes a formal investigation or not, the social consciousness is so deep and significant a phenomenon in the ethical life of our time, that it cannot be ignored by the theologian who means to bring his message to men really home. This book is written in the conviction that, while men are thus moved as never before by a deep sense of mutual influence and obligation, they have also as deep and genuine an interest as ever in the really greatest questions of religion and theology. Interests so significant and so akin cannot long remain isolated in the mind. They are certain soon profoundly to influence each other. And this mutual influence of theology and the social consciousness form the theme of this book.