New-York tribune., 1901-11-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE BALDWIN Observation-Disclosures
TIoNs OF THE NEW TEsTAMENT-A
SYMPOSIUM ON THE AToNEMENT
OTHER RELIGIOUS BOOKS
Aspects of Revelation" by Chauncey b.
Brewster. D. d. Gongnlans. Green & Cob is
the volume for 1900 published under the deed
ot trust which esta bshed the Baldwin Lect-
ures" atsthe University of Michigan, and pro-
vided for the publishing of lectures delivered
before the students there eacn year. Dr. Brews-
ter. who is the Bishop Of Connecticut prepared
these lectures for audience Of college students
intelligent and thoughtful, but not Verseo IN
theology. The subject of Revelation he has
not attempted to treat exhaustively. but In a
manner to induce further study. There are
seven lectures treating of the Revelation IN
Nature. in Man: Revelation That Reveals;
Revelation of Personality; Progressive ReVela-
tion; the Revelation Of God in Christ: and Christ
In Men. The keynote of these lectures is found
in the fourth, which treats Of Personality.
'Just now" says DR. Brewster there is a
fashion of thinking and talking Of the Deity In
a vague impersonaI and unintelrgible way.
which is not without menace to old landmarks
Of truth and right" and he follows with an at
tempt TO show the personality Of God and 10
maintain distinction between God and man
without separation Of impossible distance
and to furnish that which has been desired as
"a basis for the facts of divine inspiration and
incarnation" While never leaving the atmos-
phere of a purely theological discussion, DR.
Brewster always makes the lectures clear TO
the student mind, and in published form they
form valuable data for any reader.
In The First Interpreters of Jesus, by George
Hoey Gilbert CThe Macmillan Company. we
have exhaustive treatment of the writings
Of those men who first interpreted the life of
Christ and whose words preserved in the
New Testament. DR.. Gilbert. who was until
recently professor of New Testament literature
In the Chicago Theological Seminary, evidently
feels the need of return to the original teach
ings Of Jesus and brushing away OF the mis-
leading theological web woven about the New
Testament by its would-be interpreters. He
says:
When compared with the statements of any
subsequent writers who have attempted to say
who Jesus was and what He did. and especially
when compared with the statements Of profes-
sional theologians of the past, the Ut
terances OF the first interpreters. both In re-
spect to what they affirm and the spirit IN "hlch
they write are vastly worthy of the high
theme with which they deal These writers VINO
were first in time are stlll nrst IN llIlu-
ence and authority.
Then. while asking the question: What do
these writings teach?" the author carries one
through a most interesting Interpretation OF the
Gospel, denuded of everything save the utter
ances Of the writers themselves and taking
them in the order Of Paul. James, Peter, Jude
and the writer Of Hebrews.
Thomas Whitaker publishes THE Atonenlent
ThoDpht. A Theological
Symposium OF the seventeen eminent dfvlnes'
Frederic Godet Adolf Harnack, Auguste Saba
tfri Lyman Abbott Washington GLADDEN., I. l.
Munger F. W. Farrer. w H Fremantle. W. r
Adeney, R. J. Campbell, A Cave, Marcus Doos'
P T. Forsyth, Sylvester Horne, R. F. Horton,
John Hunter and Bernard ]. Smell. whose names
appear on the title page contributors to this
symposium least two or three will be faInlllar
to every reader, and viii show the plane OF
thought on which this topic is discussed Each
writer discusses the Atonement frC his own
point of view. but. after reading all the able pre-
sentations Of the thought the opening sentence
Of the essay by DR.. Horton, Of Oxford, seems to
~ the w. e volume down TO this: Christ died
rsyr Co.. SINS according to the Scriptures: That
. sentence sums up the whole Bible" And SO 1t
sums up the many essays on TIE Atonement
with as great conciseness.
The views Of Lyman Abbott, Washington
GLADDEN. and Adolf Harnack are especially well
expressed, but each shows deep thought and
careful study. The eminent positions occupied
by the several authors bespeaks Difference TO. II
not entire belief in, the views of each And the
fact that so many able and original thinkers
will arrive at the same conclusions through such
varied lines OF reasoning is itself worthy OF
comment The articles appeared from time TO
time in The Christian World" during the winter
Of 1852 1900 They are intended as discussion
of the Atonement from representatives not only
Of different ecclesiastical communions and ma
tionalities but of widely separated religious
thought Brought together in one volume. they
form perfect whole.
-0The Social Life Of the Hebrews, by the
Rev Edward Day oCharles Scribner's Sons IS
one of the Semitic Series, edited by James Alex
the University of Michigan IL