Excerpt from New Testament Theology
It has been our endeavor to prepare a book which, on the one hand, shall be sufficiently free from scholastic formality to be fairly acceptable to the general reader, and, on the other hand, sufficiently compact in statement, logical in arrangement, and fundamental in its treatment of the subject-matter, to be fitted for service as a text-book. The conviction that there is room for a treatise which seeks to exemplify these characteristics is our principal excuse for presenting the volume to the public.
The reader will easily discover the critical standpoint of the book, and will notice that it is not to be ascertained by mere reference to the names of critics which occur in the volume. We have been quite free to cite judgments, which seemed to us to be on the side of a sound consensus, from writers whose general standpoint is rather emphatically contrasted with our own.
Excerpt from New Testament Theology
It has been our endeavor to prepare a book which, on the one hand, shall be sufficiently free from scholastic formality to be fairly acceptable to the general reader, and, on the other hand, sufficiently compact in statement, logical in arrangement, and fundamental in its treatment of the subject-matter, to be fitted for service as a text-book. The conviction that there is room for a treatise which seeks to exemplify these characteristics is our principal excuse for presenting the volume to the public.
The reader will easily discover the critical standpoint of the book, and will notice that it is not to be ascertained by mere reference to the names of critics which occur in the volume. We have been quite free to cite judgments, which seemed to us to be on the side of a sound consensus, from writers whose general standpoint is rather emphatically contrasted with our own.