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LIST OF BOOKS REVIEWED BALLARD, The Miracles of Unbelief...... 509 CARUS, Nietzsche and Other Exponents of Individualism......... 501 CLOW, Christ in the Social Order...... 517 Continuation Committee Conferences in Asia, The, 1912-1913.. 521 HASTINGS, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics Vol. VI......... 502 SIMMS, What Must the Church Do to be Saved..... 524 SPRAGUE, The Book of Job..... 514 STEIN MANN, Der religiöse Unsterblichkeitsglaube... 507 THORBURN, Jesus the Christ: Historical or Mythical..... 512 Verso la Feda, Biblioteca di studi religiosi, 4.. 511 WALTER, Nature and Conception of Time and Space..... 501 Copyright 1914, by THE PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL REVIEW ASSOCIATION. Theological Review JULY, 1914 GENESIS * Our study of Genesis is purely homiletic. Questions of higher and lower criticism, of text and unity and authorship, do not concern us here. It is our purpose simply to inquire how the book as it lies before us may be studied in the closet and treated in the pulpit, and how the truth which it is designed to teach may be most clearly and effectively presented. Genesis means beginning. The origin of all things is here disclosed-the heavens and the earth, man, sin, salvation, arts, industries, society, government, civilization, the church. Genesis portrays the beginning as the Revelation portrays the end of all things. One unveils the eternal past, the other the eternal future. Scripture opens and closes with the vision of paradise. Here is the earthly paradise, soon forfeited by sin; here is the heavenly paradise, the home of the children of God, from which they shall go out no more forever. Here is man created, fallen; here is man redeemed, restored. Here is God the Creator, with the world in rebellion against Him; here is God the Redeemer, with the universe prostrate at His feet. Here the divine purpose is declared, the divine promises are given; here purpose and promises are fufilled. The account of the creation is not scientific but pictorial. So far as we can see, this is the only way in which the story could be told so as to convey essential truth, and at the same time be understood by men of every age. If it had been written in terms of modern science, it would have * A lecture delivered at the Princeton Seminary Summer School of Theology on June 3, 1914. been unintelligible for thousands of years, and would be in need of frequent revision. The universe is called into being by the free and deliberate act of God. It is the product of His will alone. It is not self-made, the result of eternal forces operating upon eternal matter. Nor is it a necessary and eternal evolulution, God unfolding Himself. It is a divine creation. Materialism and Pantheism alike are contradicted by the opening words—In the beginning God created. His agents were His word and His Spirit. In the light of the New Testament His word is seen to be the eternal Son, by whom were all things made. This is the picture presented—the earth is a chaotic mass of matter, waste and void, covered with water, and shrouded in the darkness of a starless night. Over it broods the Spirit of God, like a bird upon its nest-the Spirit who in the beginning of the new dispensation descended upon Jesus in the form of a dove. Then we see the universe taking shape in the hands of its Maker. By what methods and forces He executed His design, during what ages of time He wrought from matter up to man, we are not told. We are led back of second causes to the Great First Cause. God made the firmament; God made the sun, the moon, the stars; God made the living creatures of the earth; God made man. How He made them, we are not told. That is the question science seeks to answer. God made, says the Scripture; how did God make? science inquires. And no theory of development or evolution is contrary to Scripture so long as it recognizes that the forces and processes of nature are instruments in the hands of God-are God's ways of working. All that Scripture affirms is, God made; man may discover how, if he can. The interest of the writer is not scientific but religious. He dismisses the material creation in a few words, and hastens to his chosen theme. It is the story of human life that he is eager to tell. The world is only the stage on which man shall play his part. Sun, moon, and stars are created to |