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Other things Niebuhr's way of putting the matter calls to mind are: Santayana's distinction between natural and ultimate religion; Whitehead's distinction between the religion for which God is the enemy and the religion for which God is the companion; and -- certainly not least -- Hartshorneand–certainly not least–Hartshorne's formulation of "the religious question" by asking, "Is the part for the whole, or the whole merely for the part?" For "there are two possibilities, and only two: . . . We must either serve, or be served by, the larger cosmos" ("The Modern World and a Modem View of God": 3).

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