THe VALVE ASITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 
The Function of Religion in Man’s Struggle for Existence. By 
George Burman Foster, Professor of the Philosophy of Religion 
in the University of Chicago. 
316 pages, 16mo, cloth; net $1.00, postpaid $1.10 
Tracing the development of religion through its successive 
stages, and expounding the various theories as to its origin—in 
ancestor worship, in general revelation, or in special revelation— 
our author points out the ultimate facts beneath the changing 
forms. “In a world strewn with dead gods, the question is 
whether modern humanity has, like the ancient, that religious 
need and capacity from which the bright consummate flower 
of the divine can grow.”’ ‘The author declares that dogmatic and 
scientific proof of deity have failed, and accordingly seeks to lead 
us back to knowledge which is purely experiential, and therefore, 
most valid. 
New York Evening Post. Demanding that the religious situation be faced 
with pitiless veracity, has lived up to his own command, if candor and 
the free use of modern knowledge measure intellectual honesty at all. 
John Vance Cheney in the a Francisco Examiner.” Our author is the 
champion of the religion-to-be. This is his offense; this and no more. 
The Teaching of Jesus about the Future According to the Synoptic 
Gospels. By Henry Burton Sharman, Instructor in New 
Testament History and Interpretation in the University of 
Chicago. 
398 pages, 8vo, cloth; net $3.00, postpaid $3.26 
The contemporaries of Jesus had a very definite body of ideas 
about the future. Did Jesus share these ideas, or did he dis- 
regard the prevalent notions and elaborate a new set of concep- 
tions? Did he consider the Kingdom as something imminent, or 
as something with a distant future, when he himself was to appear 
as Judge? Did he assume that man is immortal, and are the vivid 
sketches of eternal torment from his mouth? These are questions 
upon which the author believes decision is not impossible. 
Congregationalist. A thorough and scholarly bioee er of the Synoptic Gospels, 
which presents some important conclusio 
Interior. His book contains elements of vataients which will place it among 
the indispensable works for future study on the subject. 
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