The Tendencies of Modern Theology. By the Rev. John S.
Banks. (C. H. Kelly.)—Nine of the ;twelve papers which are reprinted in this volume first appeared in the London Quarterly Replete, one was published in the Expository Times, and two in the Thinker. Mr. Banks is somewhat suspicious of modern ten- dencies; but he is just and candid, and conducts his controversy in a really Christian spirit. We think that he fails sometimes to do justice to opponents, but it is not intentionally. To say that F. D. Maurice held "that the only purpose of Christ's death was to move men to repentance" is strange indeed. Surely one of
the essential parts of Maurice's teaching was that the work of Christ's life and death was to bring the human will into harmony with the Divine. The best of these papers deals with the Incarnation. We cannot accept the writer's views, which seem to imply Apollinarianism, but the question is stated with pre- cision and fairness.
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