SOURCE: Review of Faith and Reason: Essays in the Philosophy of Religion, in The Journal of Religion, Vol. 49, No. 3, July, 1969, pp. 280-94.

In the following essay, Hartt provides an analysis of Collingwood's religious thought.

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Mr. Rubinoff's subtitle is excessively modest. In the Editor's Introduction [to Faith and Reason: Essays in the Philosophy of Religion by R. G. Collingwood], and in the introductions to each of the major divisions of the Collingwood material he presents in this volume, he mounts an interesting and important argument about the consistency of Collingwood's philosophy, early and late. He says: "According to my interpretation … Collingwood's thought should be regarded as a gradually developing scale of forms which admits of differences as well as similarities. And such differences as may appear either as a series of irreconcilable inconsistencies or as evidence of significant changes of outlook will emerge, when so regarded, as systematic...