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A simple, vivid, and original presentation of the most important elements of modern constructive religious thought.
CHAPTER I Losing God, or the Honest Atheist
CHAPTER II How Science Saves Religion, or Modern Knowledge and Religion
CHAPTER III Does Man Have a Soul, and What Is His Place in the Universe?
CHAPTER IV Does God Have a Body, and Could He Become a Man?
CHAPTER V Losing the Sense of Immortality
CHAPTER VI Finding the Sense of Immortality
CHAPTER VII What Difference Does It Make Whether We Believe in Immortality if We Live as We Should in This Life?
CHAPTER VIII How Shall We Conceive of the Future Life?
CHAPTER IX Losing the Bible to Find It
CHAPTER X Losing the Bible to Find It (Continued)
“I could wish that every uncertain and troubled mind might know that there is such a book as this. It makes God intelligible to men of modern world view. It shows how science prepares the way for a far better, more vital, more spiritual, more personal God than was possible under the older forms of thinking... It would put a new face on nature, on history, on providence, on prayer, on the future life. Aye, and the possession of a deep conviction as to the reality of God would put new radiance upon the face of the reader himself.” -The Christian Century
“Dr. Swain has made an exhaustive study of the human need of God. He has written a book that is mainly analytical. Its background is suffering humanity seeking to know a God of good, and much of the material is the result of the author’s actual contact with men wishing to believe in Infinite Justice.” -The Unitarian Register
“‘What and Where is God?’ draws a clearly defined picture of God, man, and the universe to take the place of the fading picture that is becoming such a menace to religious faith. A better book to put into the hands of the religiously perplexed and doubting has not been written for many a day. It is a book that will live.” -Dr. Douglas C. McIntosh, Professor of Theology, Yale University
“Full of hints for men troubled over the question of God. Dr. Swain properly objects to the application to God of time-space terms, as though they were to be taken with exact literalness. He finds evidence of God in the presence of spiritual realities here in the time-space order: We find the expression of God’s presence not in abstract but in real existences; but all those existences are only hints of him. When men say they have not seen God, he replies that they have seen evidence of God in a mother’s love and in all great deeds of heroism. These are not God, but they are evidences of his presence and his power. No book of recent times is likely to come more helpfully to troubled minds as this book of Dr. Swain’s.” -The Interior
“Dr. Swain has given us here ‘a human answer to the deep religious cry of the modern soul,’ which is the same in character as the age-long cry of the sons of men. Those who are inclined to give careful consideration to the matter of their soul’s relation to God will do well to give this book thoughtful reading....An intelligible discussion of themes that are vital to the soul life in language that is quite within the comprehension of any person who is enough given to his own thinking to raise the double question that constitutes the title of the book.” -The Christian Advocate
