The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 29

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Biblical Criticism of the

1904.]

fundamental creation of thought

'resent

437

Day.

in the soul of the Scripture-

writer cannot be looked upon as an act of divine revelation."

Corresponding to

From

a church of Christ.

She owes

outward.

Rothe's representation

this,

this

this

that there

is

church a higher

higher

life

to the

life

Holy

is

operates

who

Spirit,

pitched his tent in the midst of her, and elevates the sinful life,

up

ally.

to a "

" life.

This church exists organic-

Hence her nobler organs,

the apostles, possessed this

Gemeingeist

divine-human

in

tion their enlightenment

And

the ordinary laity.

caused that

this

for a

measure, and under this constella-

a special

became higher graded than that

illumination to single time

God

which

in the

become

most pregnant sense

inspiration,

up the

lifted

that of

life

was the

fact

their

soul

in

by a new touch, which made their consciousness of

God more

dear, and from this brightened consciousness of

God

were able

produce rich and new thoughts.

to

As a

they result

of this, Rothe held that there can be no mention of an infallibility

of Scripture

Scripture differs

degree

in

and that therefore

the.

the Scripture of the rect

;

most of the writers, but never the

can be called

itself,

greatly

that

;

inspired;

among

that

writers

the

inspiration

severally;

explanation given by the apostles of

Old Covenant often seems

that their representation

to

him

of Christian truth cannot be

taken to be normative for us per se; and that, which pecially

incor-

is

es-

noteworthy, even the image, the picture, given us

of the Christ

is

not of

itself

a faithful reproduction.

possessed of a guarantee of being

Rothe therefore abandons altogether

the narratives of creation and the

fall

;

views the historical

books as collections of records and documents which teem with mistakes little

more

left

;

and when the sum-total of his Bible than what,

is

if it

reached, there

is

be in an imperfect

way, has come to us as the result of preceding spiritual reve-

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