" CHRISTUS CONSUMMATOR. "
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1
Sra,—As one of the teachers to whom, as you well say, Dr. Westcott is a teacher, I have read with much interest your succinct and forcible delineation of the scope and significance of this remarkable book, in its heighth and depth, and length and breadth. As to that part of your criticism which, though not adverse to the book, is directed to its aim and purpose as of inferior importance to a more strictly polemical one, I would observe that Dr. Westcott has already notably appeared in the character of an apologist of the Faith. In "The Gospel of the Resurrection," the argument is mainly apologetic ; the objections to miracle as antecedently impossible, and the positive evidence for the fact of the bodily resurrection of Christ, are discussed at large. That the author "lives by Aspiration, Hope, and Love," as well as on "Evidences," is doubtless something of a novelty in a Begins Professor of Divinity ; but it is to me a most welcome novelty. In his numerous works of learning and criticism, Dr. Westcott has given abundant proof of his power as a defender of the Faith ; in " Christus Consummator," let ns gladly welcome him as the "fully instructed scribe" who "brings out of the Divine Treasury things new and old."—I am, Sir, &a.,
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