The Progress of Religious Thought : As Illustrated in the Protestant Church of France; Being Essays and Reviews Bearing on the Chief Religious Questions of the Day, Translated From the French (Classic Reprint)

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Museum, Treuttcl et Wurtz; Loxmx, David Nutt, 270 Strand.mind. The present volume therefore exhibits the Gospel in most of its important aspects - first, God, and God's relation to the universe, and especially to the human mind; second Christ, and his true and rightful authority in the soul third, Christ's religion in its essential harmony with science; fourth, Revelation in its general character, and in its particular exhibition in the Bible, leading to direct and distinct state ments of what the Bible is, and -what the Bible contains. It is a distinguishing peculiarity of the system of religious thought here ex pounded to hold that the Gospel is self-evidencing, and so needs no outward testimony or support. Yet there are miracles in the Bible. Especially do the miracles of Jesus Christ demand attentive study. The essay on the subject does something toward exhibiting their real nature and their true value in a discriminating manner, and in a spirit alike of free enquiry and reverent faith. This essay, it is thought, may serve to qualify and supplement the piece contributed by the late Professor Powell to the Essays and Reviews. A view of the spiritual conception of Christianity presented by the liberal writers in the Afozwelle Revue de Tliéologie, and as the writer believes, greatly needed in the present state of religion in this country, wouid have been more defective than that here offered to the public, had these pages not contained the brief but valuable piece on The Simplicity of the Gospel nor would this picture of the new French school of thought have been complete. Nor could the full impression hoped for in this country have been produced. Had not the contrast been exhibited. Which appears in the biographical notice of Calvin, as between the new. Fresh. And vigorous forms of religious thought and sentiment. And the decaying ones of a traditional and exploded theology. In this brief account of the objects and contents of the volume I now put forth, I must not omit to state that while keep ing my eye fixed on the improvement and wants of what is commonly called the religious world. I have not overlooked those of the world which professes to do without religion. I hope that the earlier of the compositions which ensue mav help to counteract the materialistic and infidel tendencies and efform of the present day which are bv no means confined to England. But which. Wherever they are active. Make a desert which their advocates cmncorislv dcnominatc peace.

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