1849 - THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD: LITERAL RESURRECTION OF THE HUMAN BODY

  THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD: A VINDICATION OF THE LITERAL RESURRECTION OF THE HUMAN BODY; IN OPPOSITION TO THE WORK OF PROFESSOR BUSH — By Calvin Kingsley — Very Early Edition, 1849 — Physical and Spiritual Resurrection

 Publisher: Lane & Scott, New York (1849)

Early edition from 1849 (first published in 1847), in overall very good condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight, with shelf wear to boards and some chipping to spine ends and corners. The pages are generally crisp and clean save for foxing (mainly on first few and last several pages) and old stain on front endpaper. Bookplate of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School on front inside board. 159 pages. Embossed brown boards with gilt decorations, et al on spine. Book measures 4" x 6". Please see below for a book review.

The doctrine of the resurrection from the dead has ever been regarded, by orthodox Christians, as a doctrine of the Bible, and as Vital to Christianity. Infidels and semi-infidels have always denied it as wholly “incredible.” Some, who repudiate both the above characters, have fallen into their modes of reasoning upon the subject with much apparent honesty, Among these Professor Bush has lately become enrolled. His book upon the subject has done much harm, and is likely to do much more…[Methodist Review XXV]