MODERN SCEPTICISM.

A
COURSE OF LECTURES
DELIVERED AT THE REQUEST OF THE
CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE SOCIETY,

WITH AN EXPLANATORY PAPER
BY THE RIGHT REVEREND
C. J. ELLICOTT, D.D.,
LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL.

NEW YORK:
ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH AND CO.,
770, BROADWAY.
MDCCCLXXI.

Issued in this Country
by special arrangement with the English Publishers,
Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton.

[PREFACE.]

The following Lectures, delivered at the request of the Christian Evidence Society, are now, for the convenience of the reader, gathered together into one volume, and earnestly commended to his serious consideration.

A short account of the general designs of the Society, of the plan of the Lectures, and the reasons for their appearing in a different order from that in which they were delivered, will be found in an explanatory paper which the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has been kind enough to draw up at the request of the Committee. Though placed, as last written, at the end of the volume, the attention of the reader should be early directed to this paper.

The Committee take this opportunity of offering their best thanks to the eminent men who have found time, in the midst of their varied and laborious avocations, to lend such able and efficient service to the great cause in hand,—the maintenance of the truth of the Christian Revelation.

HARROWBY,
Chairman of Committee.

[CONTENTS.]

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DESIGN IN NATURE	[1]
By the Most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of York.
PANTHEISM	[33]
By the Rev. J. H. Rigg, D.D., Principal of Westminster Training College.
POSITIVISM	[79]
By the Rev. W. Jackson, M.A., F.S.A., late Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
SCIENCE AND REVELATION	[139]
By the Very Rev. R. Payne Smith, D.D., Dean of Canterbury; late Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford.
THE NATURE AND VALUE OF THE MIRACULOUS TESTIMONY TO CHRISTIANITY	[179]
By the Rev. John Stoughton, D.D.
THE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF REVELATION	[229]
By the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Carlisle.
THE ALLEGED HISTORICAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, AND THE LIGHT THROWN ON THEM BY MODERN DISCOVERIES	[265]
By the Rev. George Rawlinson, M.A., Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford.
MYTHICAL THEORIES OF CHRISTIANITY	[305]
By the Rev. Charles Row, M.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford.
THE EVIDENTIAL VALUE OF ST. PAUL'S EPISTLES	[361]
By the Rev. Stanley Leathes, M.A., Professor of Hebrew, King's College.
CHRIST'S TEACHING AND INFLUENCE ON THE WORLD	[409]
By the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ely.
THE COMPLETENESS AND ADEQUACY OF THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY	[457]
By the Rev. Canon Cook, M.A., Canon of Exeter; Preacher at Lincoln's Inn.
EXPLANATORY PAPER	[503]
By the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.
NOTES	[529]