Methodist Review - Softcover

Methodist Book Concern

 
9780371583821: Methodist Review

Synopsis

Methodist Review. This 1872 issue of the Methodist Quarterly Review surveys science, church literature, biblical interpretation, and contemporary exploration within a religious-educational frame. It presents cautious, polemical discussions that defend non-reductionist views of life and mind, critiquing attempts to derive vitality or consciousness from physical force and urging careful distinctions among conservation, correlation, and evolution. The publication also profiles The Methodist Book Concern and its publishing enterprise, including catalogs and the emphasis on literacy and education as core Methodist aims, with notes on governance and finances. It treats Revelation as a dramatic, didactic allegory and outlines an act-by-act structure to illuminate biblical truths. Additionally, it covers German explorations in Africa and broader imperial-era geopolitics, while situating Methodism as a reading- and education-forward movement. Finally, it surveys doctrinal reform, ministerial education, church extension, and the role of periodicals in sustaining unity, growth, and mission in a expanding religious landscape.

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