The Critical Review of Theological and Philosophical Literature, Vol. 12 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Critical Review of Theological and Philosophical Literature, Vol. 12

He dedicates his book to Harnack as the man from whom he has learnt most; and probably it is from him he has learned the secure historic insight which makes him notable among recent writers of the Old Testament. He feels how much the hypothesis of historic invention by late writers has been overworked Of late, and boldly restores the great mass Of the stories of Genesis-to the earliest times. Many of them he regards as pre-israelite; almost none Of them should, he thinks, be brought down in any essential feature below the time of David; and as a natural and necessary Consequence, he finds that much of the higher religious feeling, which it is now the fashion to regard as due to the teaching Of the writing prophets, was existent in very early if not primitive times. But he continually reminds himself and his readers how little we really know Of the literature and life Of early Israel, and in his preface he exhorts them not to overlook the continual recurrence of the words probably, may and can, and to remember that his disentanglement Of the various documents is in great part hypothetical, and is not to be taken as final.

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Excerpt from The Critical Review of Theological and Philosophical Literature, Vol. 12

At last there is provided what has been a desideratum for years - a really reliable translation of the great dogmatic work on Justification by which the most noted of modern theologians chiefly made his mark on the thinking of his age. "Ritschl" and "Anti-Ritschl" have been long bandied about as watchwords of controversy, but the English reader has hitherto had a difficulty in getting to close quarters with the man whose thoughts have been the occasion of so much stir. "Ritschlian Theology" is a term made to cover a great deal more than Ritschl's own contributions to theological system; yet, while books like Kaftan's Truth of the Christian Religion Herrmann's Communion with God, Harnack's History of Dogma, supposed to represent Ritschlianism, have been translated, there has always been a shrinking - due, it may be presumed, to the ponderous and involved nature of Ritschl's style - from grappling with the master himself. The courageous translators who undertook the task of rendering Ritschl's dogmatic tome into lucid and readable English were certainly not to be envied in their work. It is all the more to their credit that the difficulties of their enterprise have been so successfully overcome, and that we are at length in possession of a translation which, in point of accuracy, clearness, and frequently even felicity of expression, is nearly all that the most exacting could desire.

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