SOURCE: "The Religious Philosophy of Samuel Alexander," in The Journal of Religion, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, April, 1947, pp. 102-13.

In the following essay, McCreary explicates Alexander's theological views, which posit the existence of God through the principle of emergence, or, the development of nature to successively higher levels.

Alexander is a representative of that movement of thought which may be termed Anglo-American realism; in his Space, Time, and Deity, he has offered the most complete metaphysical and religious system so far given by that group.¹ Much, if not most, of his work is occupied with mind—mind as in the order of realities which begins with mere events in space and time and ends with God. These data are for Alexander at once the most simple and the most complex in the universe. The present study is limited to his view of deity, treating space and time only with...