20 APRIL 1912, Page 24

The Resurrection is the New Testament. By Clayton R. Bowen,

B.D. (G, P. Putnam's Sons. Os. net.)—We can take but one item in this elaborate argument. Professor Bowen insists strongly on St. Luke's material view of the Resurrection, contrasting it With the spiritual view which he finds in St. Paul. Much, of course, here depends upon the chronology. Now Professor Bowen assigns the First Epistle to the Corinthians to the year 57, and puts Luke forty years and Acts fifty years later. This is to discard i he now common belief in the close relation between Luke and Paul. If, as we have good reason for thinking, this close relation existed the diametrical opposition in their views of the Resurrec- tion becomes highly improbable.