Abstract

The better part of this book is an excellent and penetrating study of the relation between God and the world. Its thesis is the centrality of creation, that God is the creator of the world and both immanent and transcendent to it. In the development of his thesis Professor Neville observes that among contemporary writers the problem has for the most part been approached from the positions of traditional Thomism, the panentheism of Hartshorne, the existential theology of Paul Tillich and the Aristotelianism of Paul Weiss. ‘What seems to be missing from the contemporary scene, however, is a comparable theory in the Platonic Augustinian tradition’ Hence the first aim of his study will be to develop a theory which will represent that tradition. The second aim is to discover the philosophical truth about the speculative problem of the transcendence and immanence or presence of God.