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No. IX.

CONTENTS OF THE JANUARY NUMBER, 1861.

A PORTRAIT OF SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON.

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By Rev. John

VII.-SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE. By Prof. H.

B. Smith, D.D.,

VIII.-THE ANTE-NICENE TRINITARIANISM. By Prof. R. D. Hitchcock, D.D.,

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No. X.

CONTENTS OF THE APRIL NUMBER, 1861.

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No. XI.

CONTENTS OF THE JULY NUMBER, 1861.

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VIII-THE ANTE-NICENE TRINITARIANISM. By Prof. R. D. Hitchcock, D.D.,

II. THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

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IV. THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE SUNDAY LAWS: JUDGE ALLEN'S

OPINION,

V. THE MORAL ASPECTS OF THE PRESENT STRUGGLE. By Rev. Jonathan
F. Stearns, D.D.,

VI. THE CALVINISM OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,

II. THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGence.

THE OXFORD ESSAYS AND REVIEWS: Proceedings in Convocation. GERMANY: Athana-
sius Studien und Kritiken-Stahl-Mone's Laws of Society-Theologische Quar-
talschrift-Zeitschrift f. die hist. Theologie-University Students. FRANCE: Revue
Chrétienne-New Works-Cochin on Slavery-Guizot's Address. ENGLAND: Brit-
ish Quarterly Journal of Sacred Literature-Eclectic Review-London Review-
Sir Francis Palgrave-Westminster Review, etc. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
Evangelical Review-Church Review-Bibliotheca Sacra-New Englander-Mercers-
burg Review-Prince Gallitzin-Henri de Courcy, •

754-760

THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY: Calderwood's Philosophy of the Infinite-Shields, Philo-
sophia Ultima-Green's Hebrew Grammar-Vidal, Theologie de la Religion Natu-
relle. HISTORY: Davis, Carthage and her Remains-Hauréau, Singularités Histo-
riques-Memorial Volume of the American Board-Gasparin's Uprising of a Great
People. GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS: Du Chaillu's Equatorial Africa-Lamont's Sea-
Horses-Life in South Pacific. GENERAL LITERATURE: Recreations of a Country
Parson-Smith's Edwin of Deira-Trollope's Framley Parsonage-The House on
the Moor-Harper's Monthly-The Eclectic Magazine-National Preacher. SCIENCE
AND EDUCATION: Faraday's Chemical History of a Candle-Calkins's Object Lessons--
Willson's Fifth Reader-Collord's Latin Accidence,

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AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW.

No. IX.

JANUARY, 1861.

ART. I.-JULIAN THE APOSTATE.

By PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., Prof. in Theol. Seminary, Mercersburg, Pa.

THE reign of Julian the Apostate is a brief but most interesting and instructive episode in the history of the Roman Empire and of the ancient Church. It was a systematic and vigorous effort to dethrone Christianity and to restore Paganism to its former supremacy. But in its entire failure it furnished an irresistible proof that Christianity had accomplished a complete intellectual and moral victory over the religion of Greece and Rome.

Julian, a nephew of Constantine the Great, was born in 331, and educated in the Arian court-Christianity of his despotic and suspicious cousin Constantius. He was even intended for the priesthood against his secret wish and will, and ordained a reader of the Scriptures in public worship. But the despotic and mechanical force-work of a repulsively austere and vio lently polemic type of Christianity roused the vigorous and

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