denies the exceeding sinfulness of sin and the necessity of the atonement of Christ, such a book as this thoroughly read and digested would prove a powerful corrective of doubt and skepticism.The volume is quite complete in its make-up. There is a valuable "Preface" by the translator, and a "Prefatory Note" by Dr. Alvah Hovey.Each lecture is introduced by a brief biographical sketch and a portrait of its author. There is also a careful summary of each Professor Elder evidently has not before his eyes the fear of those who scout the argument from design as the "carpenter theory." Accepting the dictum of science that "the sensible universe is made up of matter and energy alone," he claims, with Dr. Carpenter, that " force must be taken as the direct expression of will," and hence that behind matter and energy there is something that directs them. Order, contrivance, and adaptation indicate design, and wise and benevolent design, such as the world manifests, implies a wise and benevolent designer. The author shows that there is no antagonism between the view that regards nature as ordered through mechanism, and that which affirms it to be governed by divine will, so that miracles are consistent with natural law, and so are credible when the occasion demands them, as it does in attestation of divine revelation, even while the operations of energy under natural law are manifestations, of God. denies the exceeding sinfulness of sin and the necessity of the atonement of Christ, such a book as this thoroughly read and digested would prove a powerful corrective of doubt and skepticism.The volume is quite complete in its make-up. There is a valuable "Preface" by the translator, and a "Prefatory Note" by Dr. Alvah Hovey.Each lecture is introduced by a brief biographical sketch and a portrait of its author. There is also a careful summary of each Professor Elder evidently has not before his eyes the fear of those who scout the argument from design as the "carpenter theory." Accepting the dictum of science that "the sensible universe is made up of matter and energy alone," he claims, with Dr. Carpenter, that " force must be taken as the direct expression of will," and hence that behind matter and energy there is something that directs them. Order, contrivance, and adaptation indicate design, and wise and benevolent design, such as the world manifests, implies a wise and benevolent designer. The author shows that there is no antagonism between the view that regards nature as ordered through mechanism, and that which affirms it to be governed by divine will, so that miracles are consistent with natural law, and so are credible when the occasion demands them, as it does in attestation of divine revelation, even while the operations of energy under natural law are manifestations, of God. denies the exceeding sinfulness of sin and the necessity of the atonement of Christ, such a book as this thoroughly read and digested would prove a powerful corrective of doubt and skepticism.The volume is quite complete in its make-up. There is...
thought, and vice versa. But the above is a fair statement precisely of the apologetic, as against the dogmatic, task of Christian theology. Indeed, these volumes, under the definite title of Dogmatik, are a conglomeration of philosophy of religion, apologetics, history of dogma, and of theology, metaphysics, and dogmatics. Schmidt has given us, not the evolution of an idea, but an aggregation of thoughts on all sorts of subjects, more or less closely allied, to be sure. The book is encyclopaedic, not systematic. It lacks Tiefsinn, Gesch/ossenheit, and Denknotwendigkeit, in consequence of which it is not surprising that his German contemporaries in theological endeavor have been rather severe in their reviews of his work. And it is evident that he has written some years too soon. Had he bided his time and digested his material, the result would doubtless have been better for him and the public. G. B. FOSTER. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. DIE SATISFACTIO VICARIA, das ist Die Lehre von der stellvertretenden Genugthuung des Herrn Jesu. Von DR. THEOL. WILHELM KOLLING. 2 Bande. Giitersloh: Druck und Verlag von C. Bertelsmann, I897, I899. M. Io.50.
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