Excerpt from Getting Together: Essays by Friends in Council on the Regulative Ideas of Religious Thought

The unique character of this series of Essays will appear in a glance at the list of its subjects and authors. Members of communions once estranged, and still more or less separated by theological differences, have never before been associated as here in an exposition of the fundamentals of a theology accepted by them all.

Every man's interpretation of the innumerable phenomena of the world and of human life is determined by a comparatively few fundamental ideas, the principia of his reasoned thought. The vast difference between ancient astronomy and modern springs from their antagonistic underlying principles of geocentric and heliocentric motion. Opposing theologies likewise spring from opposite principles at the root of thought. The differences in the religious thinking of such opposites as the deist, Thomas Paine, and the theist, Edward Caird, are rooted in opposite primary concepts - an external Deity, dwelling apart from the world and men, and the indwelling God, "who is over all, and through all, and in all."

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