satisfactory in connection with Christology; not seldom it is characteristic of the view that Jesus possesses his importance and wields his power by thought and teaching rather than by nature and action; as a piece of the movement towards the interiority of Jesus it is dangerously akin to the large modern trend towards placing all essentials and values of religion in the subjective sphere, detaching them from outward norms and forces. But this trend is an abuse and not a legitimate use of the conception.