Theological and Literary Intelligence [pp. 762-768]

1874.] THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
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ENGLAND.
Tie British and Foreig/n Evani,eical Review. APRIL. I. Dr. Peter Lorimer
Influence of'Wicliffe upon Huss and the Bohemian Reformation. 2. Rev. J. C.
Moore, the Church and the Synagogue-continued in the July number: an interesting account of conversions from Judaism to Christianity. 3. Rev. Prof. Witherow, History of the Vatican Council. 4. Rev. James Murdoch, The Sermons of
Richard Hooker-important for an understanding of Hooker's real theological and
ecclesiastical position. 5. Rev. T. B. Paton, Reorganization of the Prussian Evangelical System. With reprints of Dr. Thornwell on "The Ruling Elder a Presbyter," and Rev. William Graham, "Calvin and Calvinism." JULY. I. Rev. Prof.
V. R. Smith of Aberdeen, the Place of Theology in the Work and Growth of the
Church. 2. The Synagogue and the Church, etc. 3. Rev. Prof. Dr. James MacGregor on Dr. Hodge and the Princeton School-a highly eulogistic account of Dr.
IHodge's work as a theologian, with some inaccuracies. 4. Rev. Clement de Faye,
Recent Roman Catholic Literature in France. 5. The Revival in Scotland, by Rev.
WV. G. Blaikie-a most valuable testimony to the recent remarkable work of Divine
grace in Scotland, under the preaching of Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey. It says:
"It is certainly not beyond the mark to say, that in point of extent, power, and
wide-spreading influence, the religious movement of the last six months is unpre cedented in the History of Scotland." 5. Etruscan Researches, by Rev. J. Edkins,
of Pekin. 6. T. J. Van Ryn, Esq., Reformed Church of the Netherlands.
THE Conztemporary Review for July has an article, by Alex. Taylor Innes, on U1 tramontism and the Free Kirk, which begins thus: "On the shores of Scotland and
America we may observe a company of men who stand and look out with much in terest, but, at the same time, with scarcely concealed complacency, over the trou bled sea of Europe. The shock of those mighty opposites, Ultramontanism and
Cxesarism, which perplexes and saddens so many, has filled them with satisfaction.
That hopeless but most instructive conflict is exactly what they had anticipated,
nay, what in some milder form they had desired. For the Scotch Churches, and
their far more numerous American allies are the representatives in the present
day of the only sharply defined theory I know, which is fundamentally distinct from
both the colossal extremes. Cavour's "Free Church in a Free State" was more a
practical plan of action than a doctrine; but long before the phrase was uttered,
a theory corresponding to it had been reduced to logical form by puritanism in Eng land and Scotland-a massive and noble theory, disfigured though it then was by
the intolerance of the age, and of the law, and of the men who believed it. In Eng land it has passed out of sight: yielding to a confusion of thought and feeling on
the whole subject so helpless as quite to appal one, when it is dragged to the
surface by a question like this of Germany. In Scotland, on the other hand, the
theory was in the last generation taken up, and magnificently illustrated by a host of
the hardest-headed and strongest-hearted Scotchmen of modern times. And in
America, it seems to have attained, what I cannot say it has yet done at home, a re cognized position as the legal theory of the country-that upon which the Supreme
Court of the United States (a tribunal looked up to by lawyers all over the world)
as -w%ell as the other independent but more limited judicatories, now proceed." It
concludes thus: "And in fighting this battle in the future it will be well to remem ber, that there may be English-speaking churches throughout the world which deny
the authority of Christ's Church over the faith and the practice even of individuals,
and still more over the proper functions of secular powers; which desire establish mnent for themselves, and abjure coercion of others, but which yet maintain the
independence of the Church along with the independence of the State, as a great
and fruitful principle." The writer of this article is the author of the best work
on the Ecclesiastical law of Scotland; and he argues his case ably. He sets forth
the opposite extremes of Cxsarism and Ultramontanism; vindicates the Church of
Scotland from the accusation of Archbishop Manning, that it claimed supremacy
over the State; and firmly advocates the theory of the relative independency of
Church and State.
MIR. GLADSTONE is engaged upon a new work on Homer: Thesaurus Homerikos:
a Register of Slatters notedfrOom the Text of tie Iliad azd the Odyssey.
REV. A. H. SAYCE, of Oxford, is preparing a volume on the Princi les of
Comparative Phzilology-a criticism of current theories.
DR. LIVINOSTONE'S Zast 7onJnals, including the researches in Eastern Africa,