The Criticism of the Fourth Gospel
THE MORSE LECTURES
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THE CRITICISM OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL.
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THE PLACE OF CHRIST IN MODERN THEOLOGY.
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THE RELIGIONS OF JAPAN.
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PREFACE
These lectures were delivered in accordance withthe terms of the Morse foundation in the Union TheologicalSeminary, New York, between October 12and November 4, 1904; and they were afterwardsrepeated, with some changes, in Oxford. I havetried to improve their form both while they werebeing delivered and since. But I have been contentto state the case for the most part broadly and constructively,and have not (as I had at one timeintended) burdened the pages with notes and detaileddiscussions.
I am conscious of inadequate treatment throughout,but especially perhaps in Lecture VII. There hasbeen a movement of thought going on ever sincethe lectures were begun; and, if I am not mistaken,the burning point of the whole controversy has cometo rest more and more upon the question discussedin this lecture. But on neither side has the real issuebeen pressed home with any thoroughness. Criticalwriters are in the habit of assuming with very littleproof that the theology of St. John is simply a developmentof that of St. Paul, and that the theologyof St. Paul was from one end to the other theApostle’s own creation. I cannot think that this isa true representation of the facts; it seems to meto ignore far too much the Mother Church and thatwhich gave its life to the Mother Church. At theviiisame time I am quite aware that what I have givenis rather a sketch for a possible answer to this question,than a really satisfactory discussion of it. Thereare not wanting signs that a fuller examination ofthe relations between the teaching of Christ on theone hand and St. Paul and St. John on the other isthe next great debate that lies before