HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY DIEHL, ERNEST. Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres. Vol. 1. Fasc. 6. With the publication of this sixth instalment the first volume (488 pages) of this series of Latin Christian inscriptions is complete. It brings together in one series a vast quantity of texts that previously were available only in many different publications. Inscriptions of lesser importance, not printed in full, are described. A second volume is to follow. The work is indispensable for research in the history of Christianity down to the beginning of the seventh century. DÖRRIES, HERMANN. Zur Geschichte der Mystik. Tübingen: Mohr, 1925. 122 pages. M. 1.20. A critical investigation of the debt of John Scotus Erigena to Neoplatonic mysticism. While Erigena's obligations to his predecessors are recognized, a high valuation is placed upon his own creative contribution to the thinking of his age. FRIDRICHSEN, ANTON. Le problème du miracle dans le christianisme primitif. This is a historical, rather than a philosophical, discussion of the place of miracle in early Christianity. The author does not ask whether or not Jesus worked miracles, but recognizes that he and his disciples believed that he did, and this study aims to show the importance of that belief for the early Christians. JACOBS, CHARLES M. The Story of the Church. Philadelphia: The United A narrative account of the great movements and the great characters in the history of the church. The story is told with simplicity and directness. With considerable skill, unimportant detail is eliminated. The book has considerable movement and the sense of continuity is well conserved. It makes profitable reading for laymen for whom the author intended it. LOHMEYER, ERNST. Vom Begriff der Religiösen Gemeinschaft. Leipzig: Teubner, 1925. 86 pages. M. 4. An instructive investigation of the elements that entered into the making of a distinctive community life of Christians during the early years of the new movement's history. While historical considerations are taken into account, the treatment is more interpretative than descriptive, and more psychological than social in its emphasis. PENNEY, NORMAN (editor). The Short Journal and Itinerary Journals of George Fox. London: Cambridge University Press, 1925. xxxiv+ 403 pages. 40s. A high-grade edition of this journal published for the first time. There is an excellent introduction and an imposing array of informing notes. The index is very complete. All in all, an edition worthy of the splendid work always done by Norman Penney. M WYNNE, JOHN J. The Jesuit Martyrs of North America. New York: The Universal Knowledge Foundation, 1925. xi+246 pages. $1.50. The salient features in the careers of outstanding Jesuit martyrs in North America, written in popular style by a Jesuit thoroughly conversant with the official "relations." Several illuminating quotations therefrom are inserted. NEW TESTAMENT INTERPRETATION BACON, BENJAMIN W. The Apostolic Message. New York: The Century Co., 1925. vii+423 pages. $3.50. A defense of the doctrine of the atonement as essential both to apostolic and to modern Christianity. BACON, BENJAMIN WISNER. The Gospel of Mark. New Haven: Yale University Press. 339 pages. $5.00. A detailed examination of all available evidence for the dating of this Gospel and the determination of its author. Markan authorship is sustained and the date of composition is placed subsequent to the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. BULTMANN, RUDOLF. Die Erforschung der synoptischen Evangelien. Giessen: Töpelmann, 1925. 36 pages. M. 0.70. A summary account of the newer method of gospel criticism, known in Germany as Formgeschichte. GRIFFITH, REV. GWILYM O. St. Paul's Life of Christ. New York: Doran, 1925. viii+288 pages. $2.00. A picture of what Paul thought about Christ, rather than a critical estimate of Paul's knowledge of the earthly Jesus. The outcome is a discussion embodying the traditional Christology with its attendant theological problems. KINDSIN, KARL. Topologische Überlieferungsstoffe im Johannes-Evangelium. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1925. 80 pages. M. 4. The genesis of the Gospel of John is traced back to earlier stories told in the services of the Christian communities and in the missionary preaching, thus making the book or at least the units of tradition combined into a narrative by the final author-a product of the Christian society. This is an important addition to similar studies recently issued in Germany by the advocates of the Formgeschichte. MUIRHEAD, LEWIS A. The Message of the Fourth Gospel. London: Williams & Norgate, 1925. xxiv+235 pages. 6s. The aim of this book, as expressed by its author, is to conduct the reader through a "comprehensive course of edifying exposition." Although the chapters of the book were preached as sermons, the preacher himself holds to modern critical opinions in his view of the origin of the Fourth Gospel. CONCERNING JESUS CLOW, W. M. The Five Portraits of Jesus. New York: Doran, 1925. x+255 pages. $2.00. A sketch of the evolution of Christological thinking within the New Testament made in the interests of supporting commonly accepted teaching of the church on the subject. COOLEY, WILLIAM FORBES. The Aim of Jesus Christ. New York: Macmillan, 1925. 227 pages. $2.00. An exposition of the subject made on the basis of the widely accepted twodocument theory of synoptic origins and on the assumption that Jesus interpreted his mission in terms of belief in his own apocalyptic Messiahship. FINDLAY, J. ALEXANDER. Jesus in the First Gospel. New York: Doran, 1925. 317 pages. $1.75. A cursory homiletical treatment of the Gospel of Matthew. MOUZON, EDWIN D. Program of Jesus. New York: Doran, 1925. 255 pages. $1.50. The ideals of Jesus are here set forth with especial reference to their applicability to modern life and the making of an ideal modern society. DOCTRINAL BANKS, A. J. G. The Healing Evangel. Milwaukee: Morehouse Publishing Co. 268 pages. $2.00. A textbook based on the actual practice of religious therapeutics as conducted by the author. He enlarges his conception of sacramental salvation to include bodily ills as well as spiritual needs. The gospel of physical healing is expounded as a plain teaching of the New Testament. Medical advice and prescriptions are to be employed, but these are to be used always under religious guidance. BELL, W. COSBY. Sharing in Creation. New York: Macmillan, 1925. 227 pages. $2.00. The John Bohlen Lectures, delivered in 1925. Dr. Bell undertakes a defense of the Christian conceptions of God and of Providence by exploring the implications of man's intimate relationship to Nature, which produced him. By virtue of his intelligent capacity to interpret the universe, man shows his capacity for sharing in the divine process of continual creation. Many suggestive considerations grow out of this point of view. BOUVIER, ANDRÉ. L'Unité du Protestantisme. Lausanne: Imprimerie la Concorde, 1925. 115 pages. A discussion of the way in which unity might be secured among Protestant churches. The author considers the genesis of Protestantism, and concludes that federation, rather than ecclesiastical unity, is the only practicable program. MACINTOSH, DOUGLAS CLYDE. The Reasonableness of Christianity. New York: Scribners, 1925. xviii+293 pages. $1.50. This book was awarded the Bross Prize. It undertakes a candid examination of the essentials of Christianity, to discover whether these may reasonably be affirmed. Starting with those aspects of Christianity which are not in conflict with any known fact, and which are therefore entirely reasonable, Dr. Macintosh proceeds gradually to those aspects which arouse questions, distinguishing here between what is defensible and what is open to criticism. The discussion is one of the most notable recent contributions to systematic theology. DE PAULEY, W. C. Punishment, Human and Divine. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1925. vi+212 pages. 7s. 6d. A careful study of the conceptions of the functions of punishment as these have been expounded by leading philosophers and theologians, followed by an attempt to interpret the death of Christ so as to preserve the traditional formulation without the objectionable features which have aroused protest. SHAW, JOHN MACKINTOSH. The Christian Gospel of the Fatherhood of God. New York: Doran, 1925. xvi+191 pages. A series of lectures, vitalizing the standard doctrines of creation, providence, incarnation, redemption, regeneration, etc., by showing how the fatherly quality of God's activity is manifested in these doctrines. SNEATH, E. HERSHEY. Shall We Have a Creed? New York: The Century Co., 1925. vii+69 pages. $1.00. A candid examination of the advantages claimed by those who favor a creed, followed by an equally candid survey of the evils connected with creed-subscription. The creeds now in use cannot command general assent, and hence are provocative of controversy rather than of Christian fellowship. Dr. Sneath purposes to substitute for these a short creed of three articles affirming belief in Jesus' conception of a fatherly God, Jesus' conception of the law of love, and Jesus' conception of the immortality of the righteous soul. He believes that all Christians of all denominations would assent to this vital statement, and that Christianity would thus be recalled to its central religious mission. SCIENCE AND RELIGION GAGER, C. STUART. The Relation between Science and Theology. Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co. 87 pages. $1.00. A popular presentation of the elementary facts concerning scientific method with a very brief and necessarily superficial consideration of the bearing of scientific method on the conceptions of the Bible and of religion. HARDMAN, O. (editor). Psychology and the Church. New York: Macmillan, 1925. 203 pages. $1.50. Discussions of various religious problems in the light of modern psychology. The writers are W. R. Matthews, L. W. Grinsted, H. M. Relton, J. A. Hadfield, L. F. Browne, and the editor. A primary concern is to rescue the objective existence of God from the apparently subjectivistic conclusions of psychological analysis. Social psychology is scantily recognized. Much useful information is given and practical conclusions are drawn as to what “psychology teaches." KLYCE, SCUDDER. Sins of Science. Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1925. 432 pages. $3.00. A most entertaining book by a man gloriously sure of his own intellectual superiority and caustically sarcastic in his dealing with virtually every other intellect. He arraigns scientists for their materialism and their claims of exactness based on inexact measurements, and sweeps majestically aside the "trash" of theologians to make room for "genuine Christianity," which, in his opinion, "amounts to seeing that everything is continuous into God, and each man ultimately is God." The author's tone of omniscience suggests that he has perhaps in his own estimation nearly reached this "ultimate." Nevertheless, there are some acute criticisms in the book, stimulating to thought. SLOSSON, EDWIN E. Sermons of a Chemist. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1925. 319 pages. $2.00. That the wonders disclosed by modern science are as capable of stimulating and reinforcing religious faith as the wonders on which traditional theology relied is a position which needs to be emphasized. Dr. Slosson in this volume cleverly and persuasively interprets religious and moral questions in the light of modern knowledge. They are good and edifying sermons, every one prefaced with a biblical text. SWEET, LOUIS MATTHEWS. To Christ through Evolution. New York: Doran. 351 pages. $2.50. A book disclosing an enormous amount of reading on the subject of evolution, and concerned largely with pointing out the large number of purely hypothetical factors which must be interlarded between observed facts in order to establish the evolutionary hypothesis. Making much of the differences between human capacities and those of lower orders, the author concludes that the divine creative power present in the entire evolutionary process was exercised in a special way in the creation of man. Since "the depreciation of man is the background of most of the current objection to the idea of the Incarnation," the way is cleared for the doctrine of the unique origin of Jesus. WATSON, JOHN M. Science As Revelation. New York: Macmillan, 1925. 303 pages. $2.25. A book marked by enthusiastic idealism. The author is reasonably well-informed in amateur fashion concerning the findings of the various sciences. These he displays in a series of picturesquely written chapters in such fashion as to show the marvelous orderliness of Nature. Back of this he puts God, as the Energy which produces all things. The "new religion" which emerges consists in the best possible understanding of, and co-operation with, the God revealed through Nature. WHITEHEAD, A. N. Science and the Modern World. New York: Macmillan, 1925. xi+296 pages. $3.00. A noteworthy discussion of the implications of modern science by an eminent authority. Professor Whitehead carefully analyzes the attitudes and purposes underlying scientific interpretation and indicates how the progress of science has modified scientific concepts. The realm of scientific interpretation is defined and the relationship between this type of inquiry and the satisfaction of aesthetic and religious ideals is pointed out. THE RELIGION OF COLLEGE STUDENTS HARRIS, CYRIL. The Religion of Undergraduates. New York: Scribners, 1925. viii+86 pages. $1.25. This discussion grows out of a somewhat extended experience of the author with undergraduates. He tells us fairly how undergraduates who trouble to think about the matter at all view religion. He diagnoses the situation as one of undeveloped interest, and finds no reason to be alarmed. He craves for youth—as for older people— |