The Prospective Review.

A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature, price 2s. 6d.

“The Prospective Review is devoted to a free Theology, and the moral aspects of Literature. Under the conviction that lingering influences from the doctrine of verbal inspiration are not only depriving the primitive records of the Gospel of their true interpretation, but even destroying faith in Christianity itself, the Work is conducted in the confidence that only a living mind and heart, not in bondage to any letter, can receive the living spirit of Revelation; and in the fervent belief that for all such there is a true Gospel of God, which no critical or historical speculation can discredit or destroy. It aims to interpret and represent Spiritual Christianity, in its character of the Universal Religion. Fully adopting the sentiment of Coleridge, that ‘the exercise of the reasoning and reflective powers, increasing insight, and enlarging views, are reguisite to keep alive the substantial faith of the heart.’— with a grateful appreciation of the labours of faithful predecessors of all Churches, —it esteems it the part of a true reverence not to rest in their conclusions, but to think and live in their spirit. By the name ‘Prospective Review,’ it is intended to lay no claim to Discovery, but simply to express the desire and the attitude of Progress; to suggest continually the Duty of using Past and Present as a trust for the Future: and openly to disown the idolatrous Conservatism, of whatever sect, which makes Christianity but a lifeless formula.” —Extract from the Prospectus.