Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 144: July-December, 1888
Christian era was to restore that intuition which Israel had lost, to give a fuller idea of righteous ness, to unfold the method of its attainment, to restore to it the sanction of happiness. The vice of the theory is, that the author of it claimed to look back across the centuries and completely re model the revelation by the light of what he considered reasonable and credible, freely imputing mis apprehension to its first recips ients, to whose convictions, trans lated into superhuman energy, he was alone indebted for any know ledge of it.
Inadequate as this theory must be recognised to be, it at all events concedes the idea of a chosen people and the ultimate fulfilment of a gradual revelation, while denying, as we understand it, its miraculous character. It is to be accepted not because of a divine origin, but because the Bible, read aright - that is, with a disposition to accept nothing but what is verifiable by experience - with the misapprehensions of ages controlled by means of a tact coming in a clear and fair mind from a wide literary ex perience, deals with the whole subject in a way incomparable for effectiveness. The whole book strikes us as disclosing a vague and unsatisfactory literary conception, rather than a practical religion; but, such as it is, we are con vinced that it is the real parent of the new brotherhood in El good Street. It has been acutely observed that no religious creed was ever yet overthrown by a philosophical theory. The theories about Christianity have been in numerable, but the doctrines of revelation and redemption will outlast them all.
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