Methodist Review - Softcover

Various Authors

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461447649 ISBN 13: 9780461447644

Publisher: HardPress, 1850

Synopsis

Methodist Review is a mid-19th-century religious periodical issue (January 1851, edited by J. McClintock) presenting three substantial articles that fuse theology with natural philosophy, astronomy, and literary biography for educated lay readers. The first article defends divine agency in material phenomena: all physical events originate in God’s deliberate will; matter is passive; nature’s laws are expressions of God’s order, not autonomous causes. It rebuts materialist accounts and argues that knowledge of the natural world should lead to God, not atheism, and that prayer and providence can be harmonized with science. The second article offers a dense survey of astronomy, detailing a fourfold framework and instrument-driven progress, discussing corrections, parallax, and celestial phenomena, and noting modern achievements (Neptune’s discovery via perturbations, Adams/Le Verrier, Rosse telescope). The third analyzes Campbell’s Life and Letters, critiquing Beattie’s sympathetic biography and tracing Campbell’s development from Glasgow to his Romantic poetry and Napoleonic-era experiences. Taken together, the issue illustrates the era’s tension between religious orthodoxy and scientific progress, and between biographical praise and critical discernment.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1850
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461447649
• ISBN 13: 9780461447644
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 706