“It is Professor Schmidt’s aim in these chapters to show how the creeds pictured Christ, how the mind of the modern world has moved away from these dogmatic positions, that there was no Old Testament anticipation of the appearance of such a person as Jesus of Nazareth, that the term ‘Son of Man’ was not a Messianic title, that Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah ... that his life as it can be reconstructed was noble and simple, that his teaching was characterized by marvelous insight into ethical and religious conditions and equally marvelous ability to point to a sure remedy for many individual and social ills, that ... the influence of Jesus has been the mightiest force for good during all these centuries, that in our present problems with all their variety and perplexity we need the leadership of Jesus.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“Scholars may say that Schmidt leaves his proper subject in order to deliver a sermon on modern life. But many a one, on whom lies heavy the weight of the problems of the present age, will be grateful to him for his burning words, and will feel that not for nothing has the author sat so long at the feet of the prophet of Nazareth and heard His word.” R. T. Herford.
+ – Hibbert J. 5: 221. O. ’06. 2020w.
“No American scholar has made a greater contribution to the understanding of the creative days of the Christian religion.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 110w.
“Broad and accurate as the scholarship is in the main, and much as one admires the mastery which it displays, of many and varied fields of learning, it nevertheless goes astray at the most crucial point, the analysis and exegesis of the Synoptic Gospels.” George A. Barton.
+ – Int. J. Ethics. 17: 110. O. ’06. 5400w. + – Spec. 97: 87. Jl. 21, ’06. 2020w.
Schnabel, Clark. Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.
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