Thus, as God creates, the universe evolves towards higher forms of complexity, consciousness, and finally with humans, personality, because God, who is drawing the universe towards Him, is a person.

He also drew on the philosophy of personalism, which was highly fashionable in the 1930 s, as it sought a middle way between individualist liberalism and communitarian socialism, and insisted that persons always had a spiritual dimension that materialistic liberalism supposedly failed to acknowledge.