ΤΟ A. M. C. WITH WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT THESE LECTURES WERE FIRST DELIVERED AND AFTERWARDS MADE INTO THIS BOOK PREFATORY NOTE. This book originated in a course of lectures delivered in various towns in England, Scotland, and Wales, during the years 1900-1903. Their object was to awaken the interest of Christians of all Churches in the modern study of the sacred books of their religion, by sketching the history of the processes of investigation, and indicating some of the results which have been so far attained. In preparing the lectures for the press, it was possible to expand the treatment of some topics which were handled with inevitable brevity in oral exposition; but their sequence has not been altered, and the author has endeavoured throughout to write with the memory of his audiences still before him. Questions of theology have been kept in the background, except in the last lecture, where it appeared desirable to consider some modern forms of the doctrine of authority both in the Bible and the Church. The Author desires to express his sincere thanks to the Delegates of the University Press, Oxford, for their kindness in permitting him to employ the Revised Version in the lectures on the Gospels; and to the two friends who have so generously aided him with suggestions and corrections in the reading of the proofs. OXFORD, March 20th, 1903. Thirlwall translates Schleiermacher's Essay on the Gospel of Luke... Proceedings against Dr. Rowland Williams and Rev. H. B. Wilson 31 Dr. Colenso on the Pentateuch ... Judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council |