The Main Issue: A Straight Question to Professor Briggs (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1332153488 ISBN 13: 9781332153480

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Main Issue: A Straight Question to Professor Briggs

Church his fate has made him the leader of the party oi' the higher criticism on this continent. His two standard works, Biblical Study and Messianic Prophecy, lie on the working desks of thousands of young clergymen of all denominations, who are learning therefrom the methods, and imbibing the spirit, and adjusting them selves to some of the results of the new criticism. It afiects their preaching and their teaching, if they dare to teach; for many of them Will not teach in their own Sunday schools, explaining privately to one another that they cannot submit to the cross-examination of zealous ignorance. To these men the new criticism has brought questions Which throw all those raised by the creed revision movement into the background. And Professor Briggs has won this constituency by the fact that his fear less scholarship on the one hand, and his unchallenged occupancy of a chair in a Presbyterian theological sem inary on the other, seemed to warrant the confidence that he could solve these questions. His books would have been religiously avoided by many who are now under their spell, had they not felt assured that such as he must be able to reconcile the new scholarship With the old theology. Hence, if there is any doubt of his having done so, he owes it to those of his pupils Who cannot be led off on a false trail by the hue and cry of creed-revision, to resolve that doubt. Such doubt there is, and to it this essay seeks to give definite expression.

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Excerpt from The Main Issue: A Straight Question to Professor Briggs While the creed-revision movement will probably not accomplish its conscious aims, it cannot leave the great and scholarly Presbyterian Church as it found it, and its incidental effects will be the most important. One of these deserves immediate notice. The movement threatens to obscure the main religious issue of the age. It is largely the work of a party of whom a representative and leader is Professor Charles A. Briggs, the foremost American Old Testament scholar; and it has come in the nick of time to divert attention and attack from Professor Briggs' own province of scholarship, by setting the denomination by the ears upon such matters as justification by faith, infant salvation, the middle state, reprobation, and the divine attributes. It could not more certainly have produced this effect if it had been so designed. And, so far, this has been its most important effect. For, as Dr. McCosh has wisely observed, the issue involved in the new biblical learning must take precedence of all other theological questions. Whether of his own choice or not, Professor Briggs stands, not for creed-revision, nor for the importation into the middle and western states of the nugatory middle-state controversy, which has trivialized and otherwise cursed New England, - but for the new scholarship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332153488
• ISBN 13: 9781332153480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38