SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not teen reserred for review in other forms.]
The Books of the New Testament. By the Rev. Leighton Pullen. (Rivingtons. 4s. 6d.)—This introduction to the New Testament is likely to be a very useful volume. The writer discusses the authorship of each book, with the plan and time of its writing, discusses the questions with which it is concerned, and gives a brief analysis of its contents. Critical questions are fairly dis- cussed, the writer taking, as might be expected, the conservative view, but always showing a reasonable and candid temper. The treatment of 2 Peter is scarcely satisfactory. To suggest that "we cannot effectively criticise the judgment of the Church which decided to admit 2 Peter into the Canon" means really an abdication of the critical function. Mr. Pullan's own views about several of the books are such as would have not a little surprised the Church of the fourth century. Surely we have advanced considerably in the critical art. There is a difficulty, indeed, in dealing quite freely with Article VI. On pp. 271-72 Mr. Pollan seems to depart somewhat from his usual courtesy. We have no sympathy with Baur and the Tubingen critics ; still, we should not like to say : "As they were determined to deny the genuineness of the Gospel which teaches so clearly that Jesus is God, they tried to discredit the Gospel by insisting upon the authenticity of the Revelation." This reads like an imputation of disingenuous dealing.
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