 Alexander’s account of deity is explored further in his 1927 “Theism and Pantheism”, reprinted in his Philosophical and Literary Pieces (1939). This paper argues that theology is a kind of science aiming to account for a certain kind of experience: one’s sense of the divine in the world (Alexander 1939: 316). Alexander discusses a particular philosophical problem facing theism, the question of whether transcendence (i.e., being beyond the material world) and immanence (i.e., living within the world) can be combined in one being, as is often claimed of God. Alexander argues he can offer a solution: God can be understood as being transcendent and immanent if he will emerge from the world: