“The book leaves a tranquilly sad impression on the reader’s mind, the workmanship is highly finished and the plot is well thought out.”
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Clarke, James Langston. Eternal Saviour-judge. [*]$3. Dutton.
“The familiar principle that the proper design of punishment is reformatory, not vindictive, is here applied in a new line of argument to the problem of retribution. Mr. Clarke works out a Biblical doctrine that aims to avoid the objections made severally to the theories of endless retribution, annihilation, and universalism. Substantially, it is a purgatorial scheme. In this the Biblical antithesis to ‘salvation’ is not ‘damnation’ but ‘judgment,’ corrective as well as punitive.”—Outlook.
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“This thesis is stated with much ability.”
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[*] Clarke, William Newton. Use of the Scriptures in theology; the Nathaniel William Taylor lectures delivered at Yale university in 1905. [**]$1. Scribner.
The fundamental premise of this volume is “that a rationally sound theology depends on the soundness of the method of using the Bible as a source of theology. Dr. Clarke shows that the traditional method is unsound, and what mischief has been done by it. He then discusses the problem created by the search for a sound method, what this method is, and what its results, both negative and positive.”—Outlook.
[*] “Dr. Clarke has written a book which every minister should buy or beg or borrow.”