THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGy 
Finality of the Christian Religio 
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By GEORGE B. FOSTER 
Professor of the Philosophy of Religion in the University of Chicago 
lbh a course of lectures delivered at Harvard in 1893 and 1894, Professor 
Foster outlined an argument for the absolute value of Christianity which s 
impressed his hearers that he was urged to put it into permanent form. This 
he has at length done in The Finality of the Christian Religion, a work which gives 
evidence on every page of deep reading and a penetrating mind. Professor Foster 
contends that Christianity is a part of human existence—that, in the words of 
Tertullian, men are by nature Christians. The tendency of modern thought is to 
reduce everything to mere relativity. To this he opposes the absolute value o! 
Christianity, not in the rigid form of a fixed revelation, but as a natural develop- 
ment, The work, which will be published in two parts, falls into four sections. 
The first section is a historical survey of the field under discussion; the second, 
a destructive criticism of authority-religion; the third, a presentation of the 
transition to a naturalistic view of the world; while the fourth is a constructs 
treatment of Christianity as the religion of the moral consciousness of maf, @ 
accordance with the evolutionary conception of a continually progressive humas- 
ity. (The first part will appear early in 1906.) 
The Prophetic Element in the Ml¢| 
Testament 
By WILLIAM R. HARPER 
President and Head of the Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures 0 
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f the Univers 
Sac is the latest volume in the series of ‘Constructive Bible Studies. 
forms, therefore, one step in the process by which the Sunday” ‘| 
pupil is led from the kindergarten stage to mature biblical che a f 
book is adapted for use in adult Bible classes, and will appeal particularly tant 
lege and divinity students. It assumes that the reader has already an vee ot ) 
ing of scholarly methods and a judgment of some maturity. The term a a 
is taken in its widest possible sense, and the prophetic element 1 weg | 
interwoven with every period of biblical history, the present phere it : 
the subject through Amos. A frank recognition is everywhere ay nalistie: 
various possible points of view, from the ultra-conservative to the wees ae 
but the reader has no difficulty in discovering the moderate views W | 
personally adopted by the author. 
viii-+142 pp., 8vo, cloth; postpaid $1-00 
