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CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE.
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Funzdame;tzfa Dogfmalik. Eine zusammenhdngende historisch-kritische
lUntersuchung und apologetische Er6rterung der Fundamental Fragen christlicheir Dogmnatik, von H. VOIGT, Professor in K;nigsberg. He treats in
section Ist or Religion in general; 2d, of the Revealed Religioni; 3d, of the
sources of the Revealed Religion; and 4th, of the science of the Revealed
Rel,igon.
Die Ciris/'zic/he DoglJze'gfesc/hic/ze, als Entwickelungs-Gesehichte des kirchlichen Lehrbegriffs, von Dr. THOMASIUS, Professor in Erlangen. Band I.
Die Doc,mengeschichte der alten Kirche. The moving principle of this deveiopment he regards as the common public spirit of the Christian Church,
the spirit of life born of the Spirit of God, which, as a gentle spiritual breath,
breathes throughout history. The idea of the history of doctrines is the
history of the development of the Church system of doctrines. The historical
divisions are: (I), the ancient church; (2), the church of the middle a-es;
(3), the modern church. In the first period he divides his material into a
preparatory section treating of the fundamental character and formation of
the chuich of the period, then of the various central doctrines-Theology,
Christology and Anthropology, and finally a section on the church itself. In
his treatment of Christology he gives: Ist stadium; immediate unity of the
divine and human in Christ; 2d, the Divine and human natures in Christ,
each in its reality and totality; 3d, unity and distinction of both natures as
contrasted; the schools of Alexandria and Antioch; 4th, unity and distinction
of both natures as contradictory-Nestorius and Cyrill, Theodoret and Eutyches; 5th, efforts to mediate; epistles of Leo, and the symbol of Chalcedon;
6th, continued strife, monophysitism, monothelitism, John of Damascus.
Syimzboiik des MAosaischeit Cz//its, von Dr. C. W. F. B EHR, Erster Band,
second edition. We welcome this long desired second edition of a work
whose value has not been superseded, notwithstanding the interval since
its first appearance and the fact that it has long been out of print. it is
gratifying that whilst the author has maintained essentially the same position
and views, he has, at the same time, greatly enlarged his material and improved his treatment of it. Thus the first volume has grown by more than
one hundred pages. Especially do we notice the addition of a section on the
typical character of Mosaic worship, and a fuller description of the furniture
of the holy places.
A,.e'./est/znzL//ic,e Zei/lgesc,ic/vhe, von a. HAUSRATH, Professor in Heidelberg. Drittes Theil. Die Zeit der Mirtyrer und das nachapostolische Zeitalter. This volume concludes the work which has appeared in parts dutring the past five years. It is rationalistic in spirit, and of the school of
BEaur,,et thie work of a real, ripe and able scholar. He divides his matter
thus: (i), Nero; (2), Paul in Rome; (3), the Jewish war, under which he
treats of the Apocalypse; (4), Religlious character of the Flaxvian period;
(5) Christianity in the F'lavian period; (6), Trajan, under which he treats of
the union of the Pauline and Petrine tendencies in consequence of the persecutions; (7), the age of Hadrian; (8), Judaism and Christianity in the