THE SCHOLARSHIP OF BISHOP BARNES
Sm,—Besides Sir Frederick Kenyon, Mr. Gee might consult Professor C. H. Dodd's Christian Beginnings : A Reply to Dr. Barnes's "The Rise of Christianity," which originally appeared as an article in the July; 1947, number of the London & Holborn Quarterly Review, and has been republished as a sixpenny pamphlet by the Epworth Press. To ask where Dr. Barnes is "wrong in his facts" shows too simple a conception of historical truth ; it is his critical method and canons of interpretation that are inadequate. "The book.has been widely praised for its frank- ness and honesty—deservedly praised," says Professor Dodd. "But these are not the only qualities requisite in one who offers himself as a guide through a particularly complex historical problem. He requires accurate information, command of critical method, patience, sobriety of judgement and the historical imagination which includes the power to enter with sympathy into the minds of men-of another age. This last gift aladye all
has been denied to Dr. Barnes."—Yours, &c., MARTIN WIGHT. 218 Ashley Gardens, S.W.r. , _
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