[14] So far as I am aware, the only explicit condemnation passed in the German Reichstag on the German submarine policy has been delivered by the Socialist Adolf Hoffmann, a professed Freethinker. He pronounced it “shameful,” and was duly called to order. [↑]
[15] I have briefly put the case in pref. to S.H.C. [↑]
[16] Dr. Rendel Harris, on the other hand, in effect avows that his heart is warmed by fictitious “Odes of Solomon,” in which the writer puts imaginary language in the mouth of the Christ. [↑]
[17] See J. McCabe, Sources of the Morality of the Gospels, R.P.A., 1914. [↑]
[20] Canon Charles, in loc. [↑]
[21] There are many such close parallels of thought and diction between the two books. See Canon Charles’s introduction, § 26. [↑]
[22] In The Historical Jesus, pp. 23–26, I had to point out how two Doctors of Divinity, of high pretensions, had scornfully denied that that story had ever been transcended, and how signally they erred. The second, the Rev. Dr. T. J. Thorburn, has since produced another work, in which the subject is carefully ignored. When theologians thus exhibit themselves as morally colour-blind, they relieve us of the necessity of proving at any length how congenitally incompetent they are to determine the moral problems of sociology by the authority they presume to flaunt. [↑]