In the Modern Religious Problems Series. 12mo, 50 cents net. Postage 5 cents.
The author of this book is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and has been Norrisian Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, England, since 1905. He has made a special study of the Semitic Christianity that once flourished east of the Roman Empire, and believes that the rise of the Christian Church can be understood only in relation to the hopes and fears of the Jewish nation during the first century. Our view of these hopes and fears must profoundly modify the critical judgment that we pass on the Gospels and the sources from which we may suppose them to have been derived. In a previous work, called "The Gospel History and its Transmission," Professor Burkitt considered the problem how it came to pass that any historical record of the Life of Jesus should have survived. In the present volume the main positions taken up are (1) the general historicity of the sketch of our Lord's career given in the Gospel of Mark, and (2) the impossibility of making a satisfactory reconstruction of the lost source or sources used (in addition to Mark) in the Gospels according to Luke and Matthew.
PAUL AND PAULINISM
By James Moffatt
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The author of this monograph made his first contribution to the criticism of the New Testament in 1901 by the publication of "The Historical New Testament," a work which was at once recognized in Germany and America, as well as in Great Britain, as an original and fruitful statement of its position. In 1907 Dr. Moffatt delivered the Jowett Lectures in London upon The Spirit in the Early Church. These have not yet been published, but the present monograph is a compact and popular outline of the argument developed in the first and second of the Lectures. Dr. Moffatt has contributed articles on various aspects of Paul to the Encyclopedia Biblica, the new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and the critical reviews. He writes out of a prolonged study of the subject, both on its critical and on its constructive side, so that the present monograph may claim to have behind it that original research without which no contribution to the literature of Paulinism is entitled to a hearing.
THE CHURCH AND LABOR
By Charles Stelzle
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This little book seeks to make clear the steps which have been taken to bring the Church and Labor into closer relationship with one another, and to point out methods of still closer relationship. Mr. Stelzle was born in a tenement house district in New York City. At eight years of age he left school and went to work in a tobacco factory. Later he was a newsboy, and then a machinist, which has given him the right to be a member of the International Order of Machinists, and to have access to the Labor Unions of this country. He annually attends the two weeks' convention of the American Federation of Labor as a fraternal delegate, and his addresses have created the greatest enthusiasm. He is now directing some laboratory work for the Presbyterian Church among the foreign-speaking people of New York City. He is director of the Department of Christian Sociology in one of the leading schools for Christian workers, and as Superintendent of the Presbyterian department of Church and Labor, has done yeoman service in bringing the Church to an appreciation of the laboring man, and the laboring man to an appreciation of the Church.
Poetry
COMPLETE POEMS
OF RICHARD WATSON GILDER