The more we study theology the more we see that it is transcendentalized politics. We extend into the field of religion the practices to which we have become accustomed outside of religion. These practices we are very apt to take as self-evident truth, and we are sometimes surprised when we are shown what they really are. Here as in so many other places a refusal to think conventionally is at first sight rather startling. Yet facts are facts whether we have seen them or not.