CHAPTER V 



SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE INCARNATION (cont.) 



ACCEPTANCE of the true 'Manhood of Jesus Christ in- 

 volves us in the difficulties of yet another problem, very 

 different in some respects from those we have hitherto 

 been considering, yet related to them. If He was Man, 

 passed through the stages of a man's development, 

 suffered the limitation of a man's intellect, in a word, 

 became as man becomes, we must try to trace out the 

 influence of these processes upon His Eternal Being. 

 For if the changes were real for Him, as they must have 

 been, we cannot simply say that because He is God as 

 well as Man, they can have had no effect upon that. To 

 say this would be to deny their reality. 



We have already examined the question of the 

 memory of transcendent experience in the earthly life 

 of Christ. We must now do exactly the opposite; ex- 

 amine the earthly memory of Christ and see whether 

 and how it affects His transcendent Being. 



Once more we can start with human experience and 

 argue from it with the more confidence, that, ex hypo- 

 thesi, Christ was perfectly human. Further, since we 

 believe that man, though human, has an eternal 

 destiny, and is already in part transcendent, both 

 sides of the problem are before us as we consider that 

 experience. 



For this purpose we will glean what we can from two 

 of the most suggestive contemporary writers on memory, 

 Freud and Bergson. Working for different ends, looking 

 at life from opposed standpoints, the one expounding 

 a new scheme of materialism, the other, almost, a new 

 scheme of pantheism, we shall find that they yet supple- 

 ment and confirm each other in a remarkable manner. 



