THE HARMONY OF DETERMINISM AND 

 FREEDOM 



A STUDY IN THE METAPHYSICS OF DIVINE CAUSATION 



You have asked me, Mr. President, and members 

 of the Theological Society,^ to give my views upon 

 a question into which I should hardly have made 

 any public venture of my own motion, at least at the 

 present time. But as you have been kind enough 

 to extend the invitation, and also quite urgently, 

 and as the subject has occupied me much for many 

 years, with results that may at length have taken 

 a form definite enough for at least a tentative expres- 

 sion, I have listened to your hospitable request and 

 to my interest in the topic, and have perhaps not 

 let the vastness and the intricacy of the theme give 

 me the pause they ought. For our subject is the 

 deep and hitherto very dark question of human 

 freedom, and its compatibility with the omniscient 

 and therefore omnipotent supremacy of God. 



The historic way of dealing witli this has usually been 

 either to assert the Divine Supremacy ruthlessly, to 



1 The essay was read before the Theological Society of Pacific 

 Seminary, in Oaklanil, California, April 5, 1898. 



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