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Excerpt from Was Bronson Alcott's School a Type of God's Moral Government?: A Review of Joseph Cook's Theory of the Atonement
In the first place, the subject has been brought sharply before the public; men are thinking about it everywhere; and, if the truth be not all told, it may be well to tell a little more of it. Mr. Cook has rather rudely brushed away, in his denials, doctrines which many good Christians yet believe and he has tried to put in their place something which he regards as more rational. His denials have been more effective than his affirmations. He has made it plain that some things that have been believed hitherto can be believed no longer; but he has by no means made it plain what we are to believe in their stead. The work of theological reconstruction is always easy, so far as the pull ing-down process is concerned: the rebuilding process is quite another thing. And the struc ture which Mr. Cook has put in place of those theories of the atonement once held is so badly planned and so poorly built that they who take refuge in it are sure before long to find it tum bling down upon their heads. It is the simple duty of those by whom tlie defects of this theory are clearly seen, to point them out to those who have not seen them.
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