“Notwithstanding its crudity of style and the lack of any really powerful passages anywhere, the novel holds the interest to the end.”
+ − N Y Times p25 D 19 ’20 290w Springf’d Republican p9a D 5 ’20 130w The Times [London] Lit Sup p442 Jl 8 ’20 100w
GORDON, ALEXANDER REID. Faith of Isaiah, statesman and evangelist. (Humanism of the Bible ser.) *$2.25 Pilgrim press 224
(Eng ed 20–6575)
“This series, in which Mr Gordon’s book makes the eighth volume, has been marked by its judicious selection of subject; and by its success in presenting to modern minds a fresh significance in studies of Job, Proverbs, the Psalms, St Paul, etc. Isaiah lends itself specially to this ‘humanistic’ treatment in the hands of a well-known exponent of the Old Testament literature who is a professor at McGill university and at Presbyterian college, Montreal. It is not his rôle to enter into critical discussion of text and authorship, but he necessarily accepts and embodies in his historical setting of the parts of the Book of Isaiah the conclusions of modern criticism as to the Deutero-Isaiah. Many of the numerous poetical translations (and parts of the text) are reproduced from Dr Gordon’s ‘Prophets of the Old Testament.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“From the point of view of homiletics it may be acclaimed unhesitatingly as high-grade work. While the book is an example of stimulating preaching, yet one feels that the reader will come away from it with a very unsatisfactory and hazy idea of the real Isaiah.”
+ − Bib World 54:436 Jl ’20 280w The Times [London] Lit Sup p635 N 6 ’19 130w
GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER. Humanism in New England theology. *$1.25 (18c) Houghton 285
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