New-York tribune., 1910-12-07
RELIGIOUS BOOKS
Recent Studies in Theology and
Biography.

The fifth volume of the New Schaf-
Herzog Religious Encyclopedia Funk
/ & Wagnalls Company covers the topics
/ Goar- Innocent with good proportion OF
| freshly prepared articles. Contributions
dealing with the problems of Hebrew
/ language and literature present both the
conservative" and the critical views
of a question so that the reader may
take his choice. The opposing of con-
servative to critical makes distinctions
! that one hopes may not be allowed TO
stand. inasmuch as the critical apparatus
/ is indispensable TO any Biblical scholar
ship whatsoever Would not the with
drawal Of the awkward antithesis help
| in doing away with the notion operating
here and there that in these matters of
/ debate conservatism means obscurant-
! ism. to say nothing Of discounting the
t delusion elsewhere cherished which can
/ see in the critical school, only the hob
goblin Of the household of faith?
! The article Gospel and Gospels" by
Professor Henry s. Nash points out the
| fact that the evangelists do not supply a
| life Of Christ in the scientific sense but
/ dNiitA tiite SdEpiS n iiiS VI NiAii ioN as VIZ
subjective and corporate needs Of the
apostolic or prophetic age shaped it. DR..
/ TIL. Zahn's study of the Epistle to
| the Hebrews inclines toward Apollos as
the probable author. DR.. George w.
| Gilmore writes an eight column account
of the Herods. and takes a similar space
in treating of Hammura hi and his code.
| Under Gregory and Innocent the lives
| of twenty-nine popes are outlined. Hide
brand and Innocent ILL., as we'll as sew
eral shorter articles. being done by Pro
fessor Carl Mirbt, of Marburg. A col
umn is given to the Gorham case. whose
decision was one of the influences lead
ing to Manning's separation from the
| Church of England and the famous
judgment of the Privy Council March.
| 1850. is quoted: Devotional express
4 slons involving assertions must not as
Tof course, be taken to bear an absolute
and unconditional sense President
Francis l.. Patton provides bfogra phies
Of the Hodges of Princeton, Charles
Archibald A. and Caspar Wistar. The
| sketches of churchmen are numerous in
! the present volume. with liberal informa-
| ton about contemporaries. and they in
| Clude Gerhard Groote, Madame Guyon
| Father Hecker, Peter HeyIyn, Petrus
| Hofstede. Alvah Hovey and William
Walsham How. That the last named
! CccleSiaStic was not ambitious is horne
cut by the statement that before ac-
cepting the suffragan see of Bedford.
with episcopal supervision Of East Lon
don, he had declined no less than five
/ bfshoprics, canonry and three i'm
/ portant livings. Among other contribu-
lfions that should be named there is the
| admirable survey OF home missions in
the United States and the articles "Hu-
/ nanism. FymnologyT and "Immor-
! tality." and Professor B. B. WarfeId,s
| discussion of Imputation
! Two volumes are added to The Inter
national Critical Commentary CCbarIes
! Scrihner's Sons. one on Genesis. hv Prin-
| cipal John Skinner, Westminster College.
| Cambridge. and one on Chronicles. by
! Professor Z. L. Curtis. Yale University.
and Rev. Albert Alonzo Nadsen. pastor
/ Of the First Congregational Church.
Newburg. The prevalence of legend
and myth in the thinking of primitive
Semites is so much taken for granted
| that DR.. Skinner avoids, as alien from
! living issues. the old controversies about
/ the compatibility of the earlier chapters
/ of Genesis with the findings of science.
Mythical ina magination and poetic idealiza-
ton ne considers to be of the life and
soul of the narratives. II will be neces-
sary if We are TO retain our faith in the
! inspiration Of Scripture to recognize that
the Divine Spirit has enshrined a part
of his revelation i'm such forms Only
/ by frank acceptance of this truth saws
/ DIR. Skinner. can the Book of Genesis be
made q means of religious ediffcation to
/ the educated mind of our age
! Professor Curtis's volume relieved a
dearth by supplying a modern critical
commentary on Chronicles available for
readers of the English Revised Version
| Dr. Madsen's contribution to this work
| includes comment on nine chapters and
| textual notes on sixteen. essays on pc
culiarities of diction, on the Hebrew text
in relation to the Greek, Latin, Syriac
and other versions, and a report in five
pages on the literature dealing with the
| books Of Chronicles.
1.-The Temple Dictionary (E. P. Dut-
! ton & Coz is a quarto volume of 1910
pages, with five hundred illustrations
and eight maps. Sixty pages are taken
up with Introductory articles on the
! English Bible and fits influence on Eng
| lish literature, the Apocrypha of the New
| Testament, apocalyptic literature. ver-
sions, the fargums, Philo JudRus, Jo-
| serbus, the language of Palestine in the
| time of our Lord. The editors. Rev. w
| Ewing and Rev. J. f. II. Thompson.
have been able to draw on their personal
acquaintance NTH peoples manners and
cGstoms in the lands of the Bible. In
/ subjects If special importance they have
! hsd tho aid OF some forty scholars,
mostly Scotch. BEING unable 10 adopt
the more advanced critical point Of view
Of the larger dictionaries of the Bible re-
Gently published the editors Of this very
HANDY volume are i'm the main content 10
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