The Apostolic Age. By Carl von Weizsacker. Translated by James
Millar, B.D. Vol. II. (Williams and Norgate.)-This volume belongs to the series published by the "Theological Translation Fund." Professor von Weizsacker holds the position occupied by what is, probably, the majority of German critics. He accepts as genuine among the Epistles of St. Paul, Romans, Corinthians, and Galatians. The Acts he regards as little more than a romance. We should be much surprised if this view long holds its ground against the powerful reasoning, based as it is not on speculation but on fact, of Professor Ramsay. The objec- tions urged by von Weizsacker to the credibility of the narrative seem to us arbitrary in the extreme. It would be easy to prove Thucydides a production of the fourth century A.D. by similar reasoning. The view as to the late date of the Epistle of James seems to us untenable. Where the Professor deals with a docu- ment which he holds to be genuine, as in this volume with the Epistle to the Romans, his comments are valuable. The volume as a whole is one which the student may consult with advantage, but must not accept as a guide. —From the same publishers, and under the auspices of the same firm, we have also Communion with God, by Professor Hermann, translated by B. T. Sandya Stanyon. This is a book of a semi-devotional character, and will be welcomed by many readers to whom controversy is not only unsatisfying, but distinctly unedifying. Professor Hermann can hardly be considered orthodox. While he rejects mystic theories he is also opposed to the views of the dogmatists. But to the essential fact of the Christian faith, the Divine Personality of Christ, he is profoundly attached.
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