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Genre/Form: | Controversial literature |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Clay Fulks |
OCLC Number: | 56778607 |
Description: | 32 pages ; 13 cm. |
Series Title: | Little blue book, no. 1402. |
Responsibility: | Clay Fulks. |
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Review of 'How I went to the devil’ by Clay Fulks.
CITATION: Fulks, C. (n.d.). How I went to the devil (Little Blue Book #1402). Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications.
Reviewer: Dr William P. Palmer.
This is a standard thirty-two-page Little Blue Book. It appears to be at least partially autobiographical, though much is about a young boy’s thoughts and beliefs. It is also about the many ‘Fundamentalist’ churches in North Central Arkansas, probably in the late Nineteenth Century. Clay’s father’s religious beliefs were of the ‘cool calculating Calvinistic variety that delights more in the hamstringing of an opponent than in bringing a lost sheep into the fold.’ His mother religious beliefs were of the Arminian type with a simple trusting faith where she ‘leaned upon the Everlasting Arms and implicitly believed that all Adam’s lost race might do the same.’
The majority of the book is about the way in which these opposing values affected Clay as a young boy and his interaction with various church ministers. The book moves its emphasis to Clay’s researches on the nature of the devil (Satan) using a lengthy selection of quotations from Sixteenth Century Scottish or American authors writing about Satan with a surprising conclusion.
BILL PALMER
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