BOOKS RECEIVED

[The more important books in this list will be reviewed at length]

HISTORY OF RELIGIONS

HOLTOM, D. C. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Tokyo: Asiatic Society of Japan, 1922. Yen 5.00.

A timely and valuable study of the political philosophy of modern Shinto. SAUNDERS, K. J. Buddhism in the Modern World. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1922. x+83 pages. Paper 2s., cloth 35. This book might be entitled "Sketches from Buddhist Lands." The author estimates the worth of Buddhism as a religion in each land and offers suggestions as to the missionary approach.

SCHOMERUS, H. W. Die Anthroposophie Steiners und Indien. Leipzig: Deichert, 1920. 67 pages. M. 2.10.

A none too objective effort to expose the sources and contacts of Dr. Rudolf Steiner's religious philosophy.

UNDERHILL, M. M. The Hindu Religious Year ("Religious Life of India Series"). New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1921. 194 pages. $2.00.

An excellent guide to the interpretation of the religious ceremonies of India. It marks a beginning of the application of the new anthropology to this very complex field.

HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY

Festgabe von Fachgenossen und Freunden Karl Müller zum siebzigsten Geburtstag dargebracht. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1922. vii+351 pages. M. 8.

A series of papers by the leading church historians of Germany published in honor of the seventieth birthday of their distinguished fellow-historian, Karl Müller. HARNACK, ADOLF VON. Augustin: Reflexionen und Maximen. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1922. xxiii+231 pages. M. 3.

A collection in German translation of choice passages from the writings of Augustine.

KOENIGER, ALBERT MICHAEL (ed.). Beiträge zur Geschichte des christlichen Altertums und der byzantinischen Literatur. Bonn: Kurt Schroeder, 1922. viii+501 pages. M. 180.

A Festgabe containing twenty-four different essays by as many different authors, the whole constituting a volume of distinctly scientific value for the student of the ancient church.

SEEBERG, REINHOLD. Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte. Erster Band, Dritte Auflage. Leipzig: Deichert, 1920. x+676 pages. M. 19.50.

A new and considerably enlarged edition of this well-known author's history of Christian doctrine. This volume deals with the subject down to the end of the third century.

SEHLING, C. Kirchenrecht. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1922. 119 pages. M. 24.

An admirable summary, in almost inconceivably brief space, of the essential facts of canon law in the Roman Catholic church, and a short appendix dealing with the constitution of the orthodox Greek church.

SOPPA, WILHELM. Die Diversa Capita unter den Schriften des heiligen Maximus Confessor in deutscher Bearbeitung und quellen kritischer Beleuchtung. Dresden: Saxonia Buchdruckerei, 1922. 132 pages.

A textual study leading to the conclusion that the Diversa Capita should not be accepted as a work of Maximus, but is perhaps a compilation of the monk Antonius who lived about the year 1100 A.D.

OLD TESTAMENT INTERPRETATION

BEWER, JULIUS A. The Literature of the Old Testament in Its Historical Development. New York: Columbia University Press, 1922. xiv+452 pages. $5.00.

A very useful sketch of the development of Hebrew thought as found in the Old Testament. Each literary source is placed in its chronological sequence and its contents briefly summarized.

GALER, ROGER S. Old Testament Law for Bible Students. New York: Macmillan, 1922. ix+194 pages. $1.25.

An analysis of the legal codes of the Old Testament by a practical lawyer, each law being classified under its appropriate subject and as belonging to the Covenant, Deuteronomic, Holiness, or Priestly Codes, or to the J and E documents. The book will be of interest primarily to students of law.

KITTEL, GERHARD. Sifre zu Deuteronomium. Erste Lieferung. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1922. ii+144 pages. $2.40.

The first part of the translation of a commentary on Deuteronomy written by the rabbis of the second century, A.D. This work done in accordance with sound philological and exegetical methods will render valuable service to students of Rabbinical thought and interpretation of the New Testament who desire to know Jewish thought in the second century A.D.

PÉRENNÈS, HENRI. Les Psaumes Traduits et Commentés. Saint-Pol-de-Léon: Feiz Ha Breiz, 1922. xxii+320 pages. $1.50.

A new French translation of the Psalms by a Catholic scholar, with brief notes. The strophic system devised by D. H. Müller and worked out in more detail by Zenner and especially by Père Condamin is here rigidly applied to the Psalter, while the work of Duhm and Briggs is rejected as being too subjective.

SAMPEY, JOHN R. The Heart of the Old Testament. New York: Doran, 1922. 227 pages. $1.75.

The author says that he is a “modern scholar who believes thoroughly in the supernatural in both Testaments." He has sought from this point of view to make a book not too difficult for the average reader, nor too elementary for students in schools and colleges. Within these limits the author has done his best.

SANDERS, FRANK K. Old Testament History. New York: Scribner, 1922. viii+158 pages. $1.25.

This is the history of the Hebrews in a nutshell. It organizes the presentation of this history into a series of brief outlines, with a few explanatory notes and references to more extended treatments in a list of commended books.

SELLIN, ERNST. Wie wurde Sichem eine israelitische Stadt? Leipzig: Deichert, 1922. M. 3.

A critical analysis and interpretation of the story of Abimelech in Judges, chapter 9. SMYTH, J. PATERSON. The Bible for School and Home, Vol. IV. The Prophets and Kings. New York: Doran, 1922. 227 pages. $1.25.

A series of twenty-four lessons upon the text of the prophetic books and the Books of Kings. It will be of use to Bible classes knowing and caring nothing about the modern historical method of interpretation.

NEW TESTAMENT INTERPRETATION

CALKINS, RAYMOND. The Social Message of the Book of Revelation. New York: Woman's Press, 1920. xi+190 pages. $1.00.

A fairly accurate historical interpretation upon which the writer has arbitrarily superimposed a modern social interest entirely foreign to the genius of the original. GANDIER, ALFRED. The Son of Man Coming in His Kingdom. New York: Doran, 1922. 154 pages. $1.25.

The volume begins with the historic approach through prophecy and apocalypse. The author holds that Jewish apocalyptic "offered a truer medium for the expression of the nature and mission of Jesus than did the language of national aspiration." Having said this, he insists upon the moral and spiritual transformation wrought by Jesus in his use of these forms and ends up with the Fourth Gospel as the expression of the real message of Jesus.

OSBORN, THOMAS. The Lion and the Lamb. New York: Abingdon Press, 1922. 264 pages. $1.75.

An attempt to modernize Revelation by eliminating the original predictive element, because to assume that it "is predictive and then find the prediction unfulfilled excites suspicion concerning the inspiration of the book," and also excites suspicion regarding the value of this modern interpretation.

ROBERTSON, A. T. A Harmony of the Gospels. New York: Doran, 1922. Xxxvii+305 pages. $2.50.

A new edition, with extensive revision and enlargements, of the older Harmony of Broadus. It follows conventional lines in the arrangement of materials and includes all four gospels, thus forcing John into the outline of Mark.

SCOTT, E. F. The Epistle to the Hebrews. New York: Scribner; Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1922. vii+216 pages. $3.00.

Mainly an exposition of the Christian message contained in Hebrews and a good companion volume to the same author's earlier book on the Fourth Gospel. STRACK, HERMANN L., and BILLERBECK, PAUL. Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch. Erster Band, Das Evangelien nach Matthäus. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1922. viii+1055 pages.

An extensive assemblage of passages from the Talmud and Midrashim paralleling words, phrases, and ideas appearing in the Gospel of Matthew.

WADE, G. W. New Testament History. New York: Dutton, 1922. xi+690 pages. $7.00.

This is a sequel to the same author's earlier survey on Old Testament History The present book is encyclopedic in type. Part I presents a survey of the land where, and the peoples among whom, Christianity arose. Textual and documentary criticism are surveyed in the second part, while the third includes the career of Jesus, the history of the apostolic age, and an outline of New Testament theology.

WEBER, VALENTIN. Des Paulus Reiserouten bei der zweimaligen Durchquerung Kleinasiens. Würzburg: C. J. Becker, 1920. 41 pages. M. 3.

Mainly a restatement of W. M. Ramsay's argument in favor of the south Galatian theory.

Weber, ValeNTIN. Grundsäulen der Kritik des Neuen Testamentes? Würzburg: C. J. Becker, 1922. 46 pages. M. 30.

A Roman Catholic reply to the extreme radical New Testament criticism of the Dutch school, as represented by van den Bergh van Eysinga.

WELCH, ADAM C. Visions of the End ("The Humanism of the Bible Series"). Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1922. 259 pages. $2.25.

Professor Welch treats of Daniel and Revelation, with two introductory chapters on apocalyptic. Consistently with the aim of the series in which this volume appears, he seeks to bring out the moral and spiritual values of these writings. His task is helpfully done. He holds with Charles as against Porter's contrast of prophecy and apocalyptic, insisting that cataclysm and intervention are not essential to apocalyptic, though admitting that they are present in our biblical apocalyptic books.

DOCTRINAL

BECKWITH, CLARENCE A. The Idea of God. New York: Macmillan, 1922. xiii+343 pages. $2.50.

An unusually comprehensive study of the conception of God, including a historical survey, a consideration of modern philosophical discussions, a frank treatment of the important apologetic problems, and an appreciation of the meaning of the idea in religious experience.

ERDMAN, CHARLES R. The Return of Christ. New York: Doran, 1922. 108 pages. $1.00.

This book, by a Princeton Seminary professor, represents a mild chiliasm of an irenic spirit, whose criticism is largely directed against the positions of the prevailing propaganda of premillennialism. It opposes in turn the ideas of the secret "rapture" of the saints, of the use made of the "thousand years" of Revelation, chapter 20, and of the imminent return.

FLEISCHMANN, ALBERT, and GRÜTZMACHER, RICHARD. Der Entwicklungsgedanke in der gegenwärtigen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaft. Leipzig: Deichert, 1922. 189 pages. M. 6.30.

A series of lectures given in the University at Erlangen in the winter of 1921-22. The first part of the course was given by a professor of biology, the last half by a theologian. The biologist confined himself to the scientific realm, discriminating between generalized conceptions of evolution and the detailed investigations of modern biologists. The theologian dealt with rather general philosophical concepts, adversely criticizing optimistic monistic ideals of inevitable progress, and seeking to show that Christianity is not adequately accounted for in terms of immanentist development.

JELKE, ROBERT. Die Wunder Jesu. Leipzig: Deichert. 125 pages. M. 4.50.

A defense of the element of miracle in the New Testament.

KOIGEN, DAVID. Der moralische Gott. Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1922. 219 pages.

An examination of various types and expressions of religion, and especially of religion based on the power of the moral imperative. The author shows that the ethical consciousness gives man a share in the making of a world not yet complete, and thus rescues religion from either quietism or pessimism.

MIDDLETON, EDMUND S. Unity and Rome. New York: Macmillan, 1922. xvi+269 pages. $1.75.

Among Protestants "there does not appear to be any consciousness that Christ founded the church in one definite way, and that the apostles and their successors continued this closely welded society in the form of a Visible Unity." The author, an Anglican priest, seeks to prove historically such a foundation and insists that there can be no true church unity which does not include Rome "for the very simple and obvious reason that the Bishop of Rome is the Primate of the whole church." SCHLEIERMACHER, FRIEDRICH. The Christian Faith in Outline. Translated by D. M. BAILLIE. Edinburgh: W. F. Henderson, 1922. 63 pages. 2s. 6d.

A much-needed and eminently serviceable book. Hitherto, except for Cross's valuable paraphrase of Schleiermacher's theology, students who have not mastered German have been debarred from any first-hand knowledge of this epoch-making work. The present translation gives accurately the contents of the definitions which form the framework of Schleiermacher's discussion. The variants in the first and second editions are shown on opposite pages.

SHELDON, HENRY C. The Essentials of Christianity. New York: Doran, 1922. 314 pages. $2.00.

An open-minded popular presentation of Christianity in terms of the conventional system, with an attempt to meet supposed difficulties. It retains the philosophical presuppositions and the doctrinal conception of Christianity prevalent during the distinguished author's early life, but is marked by spiritual insight and a generous spirit.

STRONG, THOMAS B. The Gospel and the Creed. New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1922. 16 pages. $0.35.

An essay read at the Anglo-Catholic congress in June, 1922, in which it is contended that the Nicene creed safeguards the essentials of the gospel without imposing extraneous metaphysical interpretations.

TEN BROEKE, JAMES. The Moral Life and Religion. New York: Macmillan, 1922. 244 pages. $2.00.

A carefully analyzed discussion of the important aspects of ethical conduct and of the religious consciousness, so as to indicate the harmonious blending of the two in Christianity. The exposition is dominated by idealistic philosophy, but is enriched by a discerning use of the findings of psychology and sociology.