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Church Quarterly Review. January. (Spottiswoode and Co.)— The best articles in this number, we are inclined to think, aro those on " The Religious Opinions of S. T. Coleridge," an attempt, as the writer describes it, to " disentangle Coleridge the religious thinker from Coleridge the poet," &c. ; and "Renan's History of Israel." M. Renan, indeed, lays himself open to some forcible strokes, and his critic does not fail to deliver them. The Roman question is discussed in an article on Mr. Luke Rivington's " Authority " and Mr. Charles Gore's " Roman Catholic Claims." The disputants are not equally matched, for Mr. Rivington's excellence is that of a preacher and not a theologian, and the writer of the article has no difficulty in awarding the victory, or in following it up with some arguments of his own. We may note that the reviewer retorts on Mr. Rivington's contention that " the Church of England is wavering even on the subject of hell," with a very interesting enumeration of " waverings " which have taken place of late years on this subject in eminent members of the Roman communion. " English Ceremonial " deals with the Italianising tendency of modern ritual developments. The other articles are " Gordon's Letters," " The Names of God," a review of " The Dictionary of Christian Biography," " The Quignon Breviary," " Dorothy Osborne's Letters," " John Gerson," and "Optimistic Flaws in Modern Thought."
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