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may be in all ways identical with that of His creatures 

 as they evolve from unconsciousness to consciousness, 

 so that eventually union may be complete; for this 

 same end the Mediating Logos becomes Incarnate, in 

 order that, sharing to the full men's experience as 

 limited personal beings, He may be one with them, and 

 they with Him, in the experience of bodily limitation, 

 and that, with Him, they may transcend duration and 

 enter into eternal life. By man's sin the Incarnation is 

 made to involve at-one-ment in another sense, as the 

 renewal of the possibility for which the creature was 

 made. The barrier between man and God must be done 

 away. For this end God as Christ experiences all the 

 isolation of sin in needless suffering, Himself sinless, 

 thus once more sharing man's experience to the full, and 

 making union between man and God again possible. 

 Through the Incarnation they are at one, and if man 

 will accept this at-one-ness for he cannot be compelled 

 without his freedom being impugned, and so one part 

 of his god-likeness, and hence his power of entering into 

 real love of God he passes, in union with God, through 

 limitation into transcendence. These points again have 

 already been dealt with, and reference should be made 

 to Evolution and the Need of Atonement and Evolution 

 and Spiritual Life for their fuller treatment. 



In the foregoing brief account we have summarised in 

 modern form what seem to us the essential implications 

 of the traditional doctrines of Christianity in regard to 

 the nature of the Godhead. If in places we have been 

 dogmatic in disputed matters, it is of set purpose. We 

 have set down nothing, we believe, that is antagonistic 

 to the fundamental teachings of the Church in any 

 degree. But in disputed matters, such as the deeper 

 problems of the Incarnation and Atonement, we have 

 definitely chosen that expression of the truth which 

 seems to us to fit in best with the aspects of human 



