First printed as articles in The Examiner in 1879 and published as a book after Butler’s death, this short treatise rejects both orthodox theism and vague pantheism. Drawing on his evolutionary ideas in Life and Habit, Butler argues that the whole tree of life can be seen as one vast living person, a knowable God, with an unknown God beyond.
A provocative essay in religious philosophy from the iconoclast behind Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. Download the free EPUB.