The Christian Examiner
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217947473
Paperback|9780217947473
Out of Stock
Overview
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. ID.?THE RELIGION OF THE PRESENT. 1. Plan of the Creation: or, Other Worlds, and Who Inhabit Them. By Rev. C. L. Hequembourg. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company. 1859. 2. Man and his Dwelling-Place. An Essay towards the Interpretation of Nature. New York: J. S. Redfield. 1859. The former of these books is an ordinary, though the most recent, specimen of the old theological method of treating those great problems of truth and destiny which constantly solicit the human mind. The phenomena of the world and the experience of man form the matter to be explained, ? to be explained so as to answer our fears, fix our hopes, and illustrate our duties. The all-containing data from which the Rev. C. L. Hequembourg thinks the desired solutions can be wrung, by ingenious juxtaposition and powerful pressure, are the traditions of the theologians and the words of Scripture. At this oft-repeated process he labors with commendable earnestness; but the result is neither novel nor brilliant. The method is so vicious, that the'product cannot fail to be worthless. It is ludicrous and painful to see an empiric teacher briefly condescending with feeble glance and grasp to the mighty treasures of philosophic science; and when they have eluded his incompetent and untrained powers, to see him complacently turn from them to read the entire history and fate of the universe in a few obscure texts of the Bible. Mr. Hequembourg says: God permitted sin to break out in this restricted sphere, where he could govern it, for the great purposes of his wisdom. Man is the being who is to emerge in successive generations from this world, to overspread the universe with his hardly acquired wisdom and virtue. The universe is in its infancy, and man is the only being hitherto created capable of ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217947473 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0217947476 |
| Weight | 1.30 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.89 In |
| List Price | $27.46 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Pages | 402 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
