THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGG aa 
Finality of the Christian Religion 
By GEORGE B. FOSTER 
Professor of the Philosophy of Religion in the University of Chicago 
Ly a course of lectures delivered at Harvard in 1893 and 1894, Profess 
Foster outlined an argument for the absolute value of Christianity which » 
impressed his hearers that he was urged to put it into permanent form. Ths 
he has at length done in ‘‘The Finality of the Christian Religion,” a wort 
which gives evidence on every page of deep reading and a penetrating mint 
Professor Foster contends that Christianity is a part of human existence— 
that, in the words of Tertullian, men are by nature Christians. The tendency 
modern thought is to reduce everything to mere relativity. To this 
opposes the absolute value of Christianity, not in the rigid form of a fixed reve 
lation, but as a natural development. The book has two sections, the = 
being a destructive criticism of authority-religion, the second a constructive tee 
ment of Christianity as the religion of the moral consciousness of man, in accore 
ance with the evolutionary conception of a continually progressive humanity 
The Prophetic Element in the Ml 
Testament 
By WILLIAM R. HARPER 
President and Head of the Department of Semitic Languages 
of Chicago 
ple is the latest volume in the series of Constructive 
forms, therefore, one step in the process by whic 
pupil is led from the kindergarten stage to the mature 
The book is adapted to advanced Bible classes and to ee 
students, and assumes that the reader has already an understand 
arly methods and a judgment of some maturity. The tim ore 
taken in its widest possible sense, and the prophetic cleaee . me ink 
interwoven with every period of biblical history, the present ts ee of 
the subject through Amos. A frank recognition is everywhere ge st 
various possible points of view, from the ultra-conservative t° - hich * 
but the reader has no difficulty in discovering the modera 
personally adopted by the author. 
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