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^{page 108 note 2} Ibid. p. 103.

^{page 108 note 3} Ibid. p. 105.

^{page 108 note 4} Ibid. p. 107.

^{page 108 note 5} Ibid. p. 106.

^{page 108 note 6} Ibid. p. 109.

^{page 108 note 7} Ibid. p. 112.

^{page 108 note 8} Ibid.

^{page 109 note 1} Ibid. pp. 112–13.

^{page 109 note 2} Ibid. p. 105.

^{page 109 note 3} See Gustafson, ‘Introduction’, p. 10.

^{page 109 note 4} This essay was first published as ‘The nature and existence of God: a protestant's view’, Motive IV (1943), 13–15, 43–6Google Scholar; Radical Monotheism, pp. 114–26.

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^{page 110 note 1} Niebuhr, H. Richard, The Meaning of Revelation (New York: Macmillan, 1941), p. 77.Google Scholar

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^{page 110 note 4} Ibid. p. 121.

^{page 110 note 5} Ibid. p. 122.

^{page 110 note 6} Ibid. p. 121.

^{page 110 note 7} Ibid. p. 224. Niebuhr's citation is from Whitehead's Religion in the Making.

^{page 110 note 8} Ibid.

^{page 110 note 9} Ibid. p. 125.

^{page 111 note 1} Ibid. p. 126.

^{page 111 note 2} Ibid. pp. 24–37.

^{page 111 note 3} Ibid. p. 24.

^{page 111 note 4} Ibid.

^{page 111 note 5} Ibid. p. 26.

^{page 111 note 6} Ibid. p. 28.

^{page 111 note 7} Ibid. p. 32.

^{page 111 note 8} Ibid.

^{page 111 note 9} Ibid. p. 33.

^{page 112 note 1} Ibid. pp. 33–4.

^{page 112 note 2} Ibid. p. 37.

^{page 112 note 3} H. R. Niebuhr, ‘The anachronism of Jonathan Edwards’, p. 16 (handwritten). I am prepared (unpublished address given at the First Church of Christ, Northampton, Massachusetts, March 9, 1958) to advance a claim for the reliability of this quotation despite the hazards involved in trying to decipher Niebuhr's handwriting and in spite of the apparent problems with syntax and punctuation.

^{page 113 note 1} Ibid. p. 15.

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^{page 114 note 3} Ibid.

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