Warren, William F. The Ministry of Evil: An Examination of the Popular Bitter-Sweet Theology. New York: Carlton & Porter, 1859. First Edition. [12081]
Removed, no wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 30 pp. Good. Pamphlet.
A discourse delivered at the Concord Biblical Institute on "the old problem respecting the necessity and function of evil in the Divine Economy...we frequently find it either directly asserted or covertly assumed, that all evil, natural or moral, is, all things considered, an advantage to the universe - a Divine means to a Divine end, both as it respects the individual and the universal. It is this assertion which we propose to challenge."
The writer concludes that to assert the necessity and usefulness of evil in the plans of God "is horrible, blasphemous, detestable beyond all utterance."
William Fairfield Warren (1833-1929), b. Williamsburg, Mass.; d. Brookline, Mass. Educated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; at Andover Theological Seminary; and on the continent at Berlin and Halle. He was professor of systematic theology in the Methodist Episcopal Missionary Institute at Bremen, Germany; and became the first president of Boston University in 1873.
