The Twentieth Century Outlook Upon Holy Scripture: A Familiar Literary Review (1913)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS PREFATORY. Potent influence of Bible?Vast range of authorship?Extraordinary history?Obscuration of purpose? Modern critical and literary treatment. Character and Method of Revelation I. INSPIRATION. Necessity for investigation?Unnecessary dis turbance to faith?Both natural and supernatural?Application of sane principles?Ignorance of undergraduates?A Lost Book?Various other channels?Treasure in earthen vessels?Inerrancy only in Euclid?Spoken and Written Prophecy?Unscientific, not nfi-scientific?Verbal theory unknown to Early Church?A Library, not a Book?Our Title Deeds ? Progressiveness ? Butler’s Analogy ? Three rival theories?Growth of responsibility?Culmination in Christ?Varying styles?Erroneous chronology?Hebrew and Christian Church preceded Bible?Value of tradition? Perpetuation of principles. II. THE STANDARD. Canon established by Church?Theories of Rome and Protestantism?Discrepancies?Infallibility only in Faith and Practice?Saint Vincent of Lerins?Degrees of authority?Vain legends of Chaldea, Greece and Rome? Monotheistic myths?Matchless Typology?Hebrew and Christian Law?Growth in spirituality?The Great Promise. III. AUTHORITY. Formation of Canon?Limitations and reserve ?The Creeds?Rome’s false additions?Danger in proof texts?Infallibility a dangerous tenet?A Person, not a Book ?Myth and Fable?Not pens, but penmen?Science not taught?Childlike criticism?Hebrew Church great school of Religion?Schools of Prophets?Grades of Prophecy? Earliest Written Prophecy?First compilation?New Testament upon Old?Christ limited His Humanity?Law of Parsimony?Inerrancy a Modern Theory. IV. THE CANON. Palestinian and Alexandrian Old Testament ?Christ’s dialect?Ancient and forgotten Books?Ezra and Nehemiah for Old Testament?Final settlement of Canon? …