Chapter IV

	The philosophical situation at the opening of the century	125
	Leading representatives of present day philosophy	127
I.	Bergson and Creative Evolution	127
	Creative Evolution a drama in three acts	128
	Features of Bergson’s system: the vital impulse	129
	His rejection of Finalism: is it compatible with Theism?	132
II.	Eucken and the Truth of Religion	137
	His critique of Naturalism, of Pragmatism and of Absolutism	138
	Universal Religion and Characteristic Religion	140
	Eucken’s relation to Christianity: “Can we still be Christians?”	142
	Bergson and Eucken as prophets of a new era	146
III.	Ward and the Realm of Ends	146
	His transition from Pluralism to Theism	147
	His argument for Immortality	152
	Pampsychism and Metempsychosis	153
	Difficulties in the doctrine of Pampsychism	154
IV.	Royce and the Problem of Christianity	155
	Christianity as a Religion of Loyalty	157
	“What is vital in Christianity?”	158
	The Christian ideas of Sin and of Atonement or Grace	159
	The Church as a source of salvation: its origin	161
	Philosophical interest in Christianity and its significance	164