The Open Court Volume 16 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...in the University of Berlin during the winter term of 1899 to 1900. Dr. Harnack has earned a well-deserved reputation for theological erudition and his great work, The History of Dogma, has taken front rank among books on this subject. But he is more than a scholar; he is also a man of great religious enthusiasm who has declared that "the theologians of every country only half discharge their duties if they think it enough to treat of the Gospel in the recondite language of learning and bury it in scholarly folios." The present lectures were accordingly designed to present the essential features of the Christian religion and its historical development in a popular form for lay students of every calling. The lectures were a great success in Berlin and appear to have served their purpose admirably. The publishers of the work are the prominent house of J. C. Hinrichs, of Leipsic, which has made a specialty of theological and Oriental works of every character. It was they who issued Dr. Delitzsch's lecture on "Babel and Bible." Readers unacquainted with German may be grateful to know that Dr. Harnack's work was. on its first appearance last year, translated into English by T. Baily Saunders, under the title, "What is Christianity?," and published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. The price of the German edition is one mark fifty pfennigs, bound. Mr. John Maddock has published a booklet entitled: A Catechism of Positive, Scientific Monism. In Refutation of the Negative Monism of Prof. Ernst Haeckel. He defines monism as "the science which teaches that all forms came forth from the great, universal, material womb--intelligent, potential matter." The dynamic force of nature Mr. Maddock calls "the Great Dynamis," wh...