CURRENT LITERATURE.
ALBRECHT RITSCHL AND HIS SCHOOL.
Albrecht Ritschl and his School. By Robert Mackintosh. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d. net.)—Profeesor Mackintosh's book is a summary and criticism. He bee used with evident enjoyment the best of what had already been written on his subject, yet his criticism is independent, and based upon his own study of Ritaohis works. After an introduction and biography, the works are discussed in the order of their publication. The development of Hitachi, thought is vividly
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set in its environmenL Especially interesting is the account of the modification of his ideas by his followers; and Pro- fessor Mackintosh's affection for Herrmann, of whom he was himself a hearer, diffuse, a pleasant warmth into the die- cuseion. " Challenges " are :deo noticed "which from within the school itself have been directed against several of the foundations of Ritschlianism." Such came from Johannes Weiss, Troeltsch, and Bouseet. Their positions are shrewdly examined, but perhaps too briefly for perfect fairness. The most interesting part of the book comes at the end, where the critic gives his own answers to the great questions which have been opened. Here is his conclusion
"Our primary apologetic duty is to make men trust the right thing—God's message through Christ—and distrust the wrong. Our apologetic duty, did rimy 1 It is our primary and fundamental Christian duty. Whatever Ritschlianism has done or left undone, it has meant this; it has Bought this ; it is seeking this still, and seeking will find."
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