The Philosophy of Faith; and The Fourth Gospel. By Henry
Scott Holland, D.D. (Murray. 12s. net.)—Whatever may be thought of Dr. Scott Holland as a Regius Professor of Divinity, his influence over men of very various types was wide. His economic and social activities were more In evidence than his theological ; but, with whatever subject- matter he dealt, he was essentially a religious teacher ; and, though his standpoint was that of what is known as Anglo-Catholioism, his mind was too open and his temper too sunny to make it possible for him either to think or act as a partisan. He did much to establish what his editor happily describes as "normal human relationships" between men of different and conflicting schools ; and with his death a force in the Church Party which made against bitterness and sectionalism disappeared. Liddon and T. H. Green were the main influences In his development. How far he succeeded in uniting their standpoints, or how far they are capable of being united, is matter of opinion ; and the first section of this book, "The Philosophy of Faith," gives his personal answer to the question. But it is something—it is much—that so representative a Church- man should have laid stress on both sides of the equation, and refused the easy solution reached by leaving one out of the account.
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