The Forum, Vol. 3

Excerpt from The Forum

Some God, some religion, humanity must have. What God, what religion, will it be? Will the abstract God of deism content us Assuredly not. We want, in Kant's happy phrase, a God that can interest us.' He then proceeds to quote a somewhat abbreviated (as he says) but beautiful and striking passage from Cardinal Newman's representation of what is contained and implied in the idea of God, as if it only applied to the God of Christianity. This passage, thus partially quoted by him, continues on as follows.