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HE WHO IS: A STUDY IN TRADITIONAL THEISM, by E. L. Mascall. 210 pp.New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1943.As the title suggests, this book is a study in natural theology along thelines of that “traditional theism” which “received, as regards its main features, a coheren’t formulation in the thirteenth century in the works ofSt. Thomas Aquinas” (p. viii). The author defines this as the doctrinethat asserts “(1.) That the human mind can, from the consideration of finite beings, arrive, without appeal to ‘religious experience’ or ‘revelation,’ at a sure knowledge of the existence of a God whose primary character is that of a self-existent Being. (2.) That the finite world derivesits existence and its persistence from a free act of will upon the part ofGod, to whom it is altogether unnecessary and who would be in everyrespect complete without it, but whose concern with it is none the less amanifestation of the deepest condescension and love” (p. ix). He remarks, rightly, that, to those who do not accept Kant’s metaphysical agnosticism, the Kantian criticisms of the traditional “proofs” of the existence of God are by no means fatal. Unfortunately, in restating the“proofs” he prefers to

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Author

E. L. (Eric Lionel) Mascall

Publisher

Longmans, Green and Co.

Published

1943

Language

EN

ISBN

9780208009012

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Christianity

Updated

2026-03-24