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Biblical Criticism of the Present

Day.

[July,

considerate judgment but without the least uncertainty, express,

—that

the biblical criticism of the present day

is

structive of the best interests of the church of the living

for the -reason that \

it

we de-

God,

revokes her theology, robs her of the

Give

Bible, and destroys her liberty in Christ.

me your

atten-

tion as, in the development of these three propositions, I shall

show

that biblical criticism as

almost every

at

Protestant

it

prosecuted in our times

is

on the continent of

university

Europe, must result in the utter destruction of theology; that it

cannot continue without robbing the church of the Holy

Scriptures; and that

it

I

bow and

name of

whose church

for the welfare of

my word

be in this the inspirer of

thoughts

Lord Jehovah,

the

the Strength of our

the

I plead,

and the judge of

while in this sacred task, also,

;

in-

And may He, before whose glory

clericalism.

reverently

in surrendering her, utterly

arms of the most unbearable, because

defenseless, into the tellectual,

must end

Rock

our help

my

in the

is

of our strength, and

life. I.

Biblical criticism of the present

day tears the parts of the-

ology out of their relation, violates tutes for

it

something which

fold complaint in which

hand, as

no theology.

I treat

the

first

Such

and is

substi-

the three-

part of the subject in

undertake to prove the proposition that present-day

I

biblical criticism

Theology

is

must end

in the destruction of theology.

a science which,

and psychology, this

is

character,

its

if it is

analogous to philosophy

distinguished from

is

fundamental point, that

it

all

other sciences by

does not occupy

itself

with the

knowledge of the creature, but of the Creator hence of a God ;

who,

as

creator,

creaturely.

The

cannot

be

included

in

the range of the

object of theology, therefore,

God and something

besides which

is

is

God.

Not

coordinated with him;

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