Fitz-Greene Halleck as a Poet
Examines hazards and new regulations on household poisons, and presents a critical appreciation of Fitz-Greene Halleck’s poetic style and influence.
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Fitz-Greene Halleck as a Poet
Perry’s Elements of Political Economy
Argues for an organized ‘ecclesiastical economy’ to systematize church temporalities; contains reviews of natural history and Arthur P. Perry’s Elements of Political Economy tracing economic thought.
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Shakespeare
Two pieces: a call to develop ‘ecclesiastical economy’ for managing congregational temporalities, and a critical review of Richard Grant White’s biography of Shakespeare.
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Tenney’s Manual of Zoology
Argues for a systematic ‘ecclesiastical economy’ for congregational temporalities. Reviews works on Jesus and on zoology, defending special creation against Darwinian views.
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Childhood of Joseph Addison Alexander
Biography of Joseph Addison Alexander’s childhood: a precocious, voracious reader who mastered Latin, Hebrew and other languages under his father’s tutelage and prepared for Princeton.
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The Sea: By One on Shore
Index and selections from Hours at Home (Vol. VIII, 1868–69). A literary monthly featuring essays, translations, travel pieces and poetry (Girardin profile, Sevastopol, sea poems).
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The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander, Volume 1
Biography of Joseph Addison Alexander (1809–1860), Princeton theological professor, biblical and Oriental scholar, preacher and commentator, chronicling his studies, teaching and writings.
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Gardiner’s Harmony of the Four Gospels
Presbyterians argue apostolic succession rests on apostolic writings, doctrine and polity rather than historical lineage. Also reviews Gardiner’s Harmony of the Gospels.
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An Invitation
A magazine issue featuring a sketch of Jasmin, the troubadour of Agen; a poem ‘An Invitation’ evoking wintry night and hearth; and an introduction to Plautus’s comedy ‘The Haunted House.’
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Gough’s New Testament Quotations
Reviews Hodge’s Systematic Theology as learned, perspicuous, and orthodox. Notes Gough’s New-Testament/Old-Testament collations (helpful for Romans) and Somers’ postwar Southern survey.
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What I Saw of the Shah
Victorian literary-travel sketches: Italian haunts of Lord Byron and a narrator’s uneasy encounters with the Shah of Persia—obsession, public spectacle, and travel observation.
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Reason and Redemption
Review of Reason and Redemption: argues that denying Redemption requires abandoning reason; critiques deism, pantheism, positivism and atheism and defends Christian apologetics.
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The Metaphysical Postulate of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles
Critique of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles arguing his doctrine of the ‘unknowable’ rests on flawed Hamiltonian premises and tends toward agnosticism or atheism. Compares positivism with Christian theology.
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The Modern Doctrine of the Unknowable
Critiques Dr. Bledsoe’s theodicy and debates over infant baptism/salvation; examines and refutes the ‘unknowable’ philosophy of Hamilton, Mansel, Spencer on relativity and the absolute.
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The Vedder Lectures for 1874 and 1875
Review of The Vedder Lectures defending theism against atheism and naturalistic evolution. Argues for cosmological and moral proofs, the credibility of miracles, and the Bible’s primacy.
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Social Science Under a Christian Aspect
Review of the Walnut Street Church legal dispute and R. J. Wright’s Principia, assessing theology’s relation to social science, communism, and Broad Church mysticism.
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Some Elements of Religion: Lent Lectures
Contents include a committee report on the diaconate—its relation to the presbyterate and duties—and reviews of Liddon’s Lent lectures on religion and a critique of Huxleyism/evolution.
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The Alternatives of Unbelief
Two essays: one explains the Lord’s Supper and its sanctifying purpose; the other surveys anti-theistic systems (atheism, pantheism, deism, agnosticism) and Christian responses.
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The Reflex Influence of Religion on the World
Essay on the reflex influence of Christianity on the world: defending the faith, promoting conversion and missions, and confronting skepticism and worldly depravity.
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