Theoliogical and Literary Intelligence [pp. 378-386]

382 TIIEOL()GICAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. [Apni,
The Beweis des Ctaubc,zs gives high praise to a work by Dr. H. Scharling, Prof.
of Theology hi Copenhagen, recently translated from the Danish into the German
(2 vols., Gutersloh, 1875), entitled Thimanity and Christianity in their Ilistoriral
Development; or, the P/i Kosophy of Historytrorn the Christian foint of View. It says
that this is "one of the most important and thorough works in the sphere of
Christian apologetics, and one of the most interesting and genial products of
Christian scholarship." It gives a critical and comparative vie'v of Christianity
in its different epochs, and in its various forms of manifestation-Ancient, Roman
Catholic, Greek, Protestant (with a decided preference for Lutheranism). In contrast with the modern anti-Christian speculations, it exhibits the inherent superiority of the Christian system.
The first voluine is out of the Unic-ersat Cerman J3iogi-aphj', published by a com —
mission of the Royal Academy of Sci~nces, Munich. It extends to Baldamus.
The project is a large one, the names of the contributors extending to over four
hundred. The work wilt undoubtedly be thoroughly done.
L. Lemme edits a special edition of Luther's Three Great Acfo~~mation!Vntin~s,
viz.: his Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, Babylon~ian
Captivity of the Church, and the Freedom of a Christian Man (Gotha:Perthes.)
B. Duhm, Privat-docent in Go~ttingen, has published 7)he 7'heoto6y of the Brophets
as the Baszs of the Jnterna/ Developnient-Jfistory of the Jsraelite ~etirion. It is a
work of reconstruction. He agrees with Kuenen (in his Religion of the Israelites)
in the extreme position, that the Levitical laws, in the main, l~elong to the post —
exilian period-a wide departure from Ewald, who is altogether too conservative
for this new generation, which constructs everything by "the idea~"
Prof. Hubner, of Berlin, is publishing a supplement to his hisrYiphones Brita~ —
nice Latin~ (vol. VII., of the Berlin Corpus Inscript. Latin.), entitled Jnscr~ptiones
B4tanni~ Christian~, with 184 wood engravings, and a map by Kiepert. Several
English scholars have aided in this work. The inscflp~ns range from A.D. 500
to 1,000, and come from Cornwall, Devon, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Scotland.
Hosea et Joel, prophetie, ad Fidem codicis Babylonici Petropolitani, ed. H.
Strack. Leipzig: Hinrichs.
A ~ourna1 of Church H?story (Zeitschr~ft f A~rJien, jeschiJite', to take the
place of the Leipsick Journal, recently came to a close, is to be published by
Perthes of Gotha, edited by Dr. Th. Brieger, with the special aid of Drs. Gass,
Reuter, and Ritschl-all strong names. It will cover the whole ground of scientific historical theology, the history of doctrines as well as the external church history, and consist of essays, critical accounts of new works, analecta, etc.
FRANCE.
A new philosophical review is started at Paris, by Balli re & Co., entitled
J?evue?hitosophique de la 1?rance et de 1'Etranger. It is a monthly periodical, at
the rate of thirty francs a year, I 12 pages a number. T he editor is M. Th. Ribot,
whose work oi~ Heredity has been translated. This review is "for all the
schools. It proposes to give a complete and exact picture of current philosophical
movements, excluding no school.... It is not so certain that the different
schools know one another sufficiently, and perhaps reciprocal contact might result
i1\ dissipating many misunderstandings, at any rate, one can then judge with full
knowledge of the grounds." "Lively as are the quarrels of the schools, the reasons which separate them are less numerous than those which unite them, since