PRACTICAL IDEALISM. 



By WM. DeWITT HYDE, D.D., 



President of Bowdoin College, and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. 

 12010. Cloth. $1.50. 



THE OUTLOOK: " A book of singular lucidity and of ethical vigor and practical 

 philosophy, utterly free from theological bias, wide in the outlook of keen thought and 

 warm feeling, and admirably interpreting ' the spiritual significance of every -day life.' " 



CHURCH UNION: "Full of much that is intellectually stimulating, and full 

 too, as its title signifies it was meant to be, of much that is practically helpful." 



THE CONGREGATIONALIST: " Whoever reads this volume . . . will concede 

 readily that it deserves the highest commendation. Certainly we recall no other 

 treatise upon its topic which we consider its equal. It is exceedingly concise and 

 compact. It is characteristically candid and large-minded. It outlines its subject 

 with proper concentration of attention upon essential points, and its interest inert 

 to the climax. Its style is unusually lucid and intelligible." 



OUTLINES OF SOCIAL THEOLOGY. 



By WM. DeWITT HYDE, D.D., 



President of Bowdoin College, and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. 



121110. Cloth. Price $1.50. 

 Part I. Theological; II. Anthropological; III. Sociological. 



" It contains something more than commonly well worth reading. The keynote 

 of the volume, as we read it, is sounded in the first sentence of Chapter IV. : ' It 

 is impossible to separate God from man or man from God. They are correlative 

 terms.' The author plants himself firmly on this social conception of theology, and 

 holds it. The book is, all through, very much out of the ordinary line. It does not 

 fly in the face of settled convictions, nor contradict the traditional creeds. The sub- 

 ject is set up for discussion in a different light and in new and delightfully suggestive 

 relations." The Independent. 



" A most welcome book. It is something far better and more desirable than its 

 title would indicate. We think he deserves credit for something more thorough and 

 lasting than he is willing to claim. At any rate, he traverses from end to end the 

 whole region of religion, on the side both of theory and of practice, and explores it 

 in the light of the science and thinking and spirit of our day. The author's gift 

 of telling utterance, his fine feeling, and lofty purpose seem never to fail him. He 

 shows that he has in rare degree the gifts of the preacher, and that these chapters 

 were first spoken as sermons. They lose in print none of their reality and practical 

 efficiency. It is a good omen that this first attempt at a thorough restatement of 

 Christian doctrine should command the service of the art to please and convince, 

 and partake both of the 'grace and truth which came by Jesus Christ.'" The 

 Congregationalist. 



" The dominating idea of Dr. Hyde's book is indicated by its title, ' Outlines of 

 Social Theology.' It is not sociology viewed theistically: it is theology viewed 

 socially. It does not. like Kidd's ' Social Evolution ' or Drummond's ' Ascent of 

 Man,' contribute one notably new and crystallizing thought to a familiar discussion. 

 It is rather, as its title indicates, an ' outline.' But it is not a skeleton. It is full 

 of life, of blood, of nerves. In it the author reflects in fresh and vital statements, 

 the latest, and what the Outlook regards as the best, theological thought of our 

 time. But this he does not as a mere reporter; he is a thinker who has felt the 

 influence of the Zeitgeist, and reproduces in remarkably clear statements truths 

 which lie in modern consciousness, either as undefined experiences or as individual 

 but not correlated truths." The Outlook. 



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