The indwelling God
Subtitle: a historical study of the Christian conception of divine immanence and incarnation, with special reference to Indian thought
By: by E.C. Dewick
Publisher: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, Indian branch
Published: 1938
Place of publication: [London]; [New York, etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Immanence of God; Religion; Christianity and other religions
Notes: "Printed in India."

Issued also as inaugural dissertation, Cambridge.
Table of contents: title: Introductory. Various modes of indwelling ; Indwelling, immanence and incarnation ; Immanence and transcendence; title: The beginnings of the idea. Primitive ideas of something within nature ; The emergence of the two main types of higher religious thought : monism and monotheism ; The reactions within these two main types of religion; title: The Hinduism of the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Gītā. The beginnings of Hinduism : the Rig-Veda ; The Upanishads ; The Bhagavad-Gītā; title: Buddhism, Jainism, and later Hinduism. Buddhism ; Jainism ; The six Brahmanical systems of Hindu philosophy ; Śaṅkara's Advaita monism, or Vedānta ; Reactions towards theism within Hinduism ; The idea of divine immanence in the Hindu reformers; title: Pre-Christian thought in the west. The idea of divine indwelling in the east and the west ; The popular religion of Greece ; The philosophic tradition of Greece ; Conclusion; title: The religions of transcendence. Judaism ; Zoroastrianism ; Islam; title: The teaching of Jesus Christ. The general background of Christ's teaching ; The Synoptic Gospels ; The fourth Gospel ; The extra-canonical sayings of Jesus ; General conclusions; title: The experience and doctrine of divine indwelling in the church of the first three centuries. The apostolic writings of the New Testament ; The sub-apostolic fathers and apologists; title: The doctrine of divine indwelling in Orthodox and Catholic Christianity. The age of the creeds and councils ; The growing division between Eastern and Western Christianity ; The Orthodox tradition of the Eastern Churches ; The Catholic tradition of Western Christendom; title: The doctrine of divine indwelling in the reformed churches. The teaching of the reformers ; Orthodox Protestantism after the Reformation; title: The modern revival of immanentism in the Western world. Forerunners of the revival ; The chief factors in the revival of immanentism in the early nineteenth century; title: The revival of immanentism within the English church in the nineteenth century. The chief schools of thought in the church ; The Gospel of immanentism ; The difficulties involved in Christian immanentism; title: The post-war reaction against immanentism. The causes of the reaction ; The reaction from the side of philosophy and science ; The reaction from the side of Catholic dogma ; The Barthian reaction; title: Some general conclusions. The necessity for some measure of immanentism ; The necessity for some measure of transcendentalism ; The necessity for the middle path ; The Christian answers to the special challenges of today; title: Some unsolved problems of divine indwelling. The inadequacy, and yet the inevitability, of 'spatial' terms ; Divine indwelling in the world of nature ; Divine indwelling and the moral law ; Divine indwelling and human personality ; Divine indwelling and the 'absolute' claims of Christianity ; Epilogue.