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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1929.

FAITH IN THE GOSPEL. century and are, consequently,

LECTURE BY FATHER

P. J. JOY.

A strong appeal for faith in the Gospel was made by the Rov: Father P. Joy, S. J., last evening at the St. Patrick's Hall, in another of the series of popular lectures delivered by members of the Order. He said in part:

spurious. I quote one priceless plece of "argument" which I bog you to keep and hold; "If the Gas- pels are really historic docu- ments," he tells us, "the miracul- cus cannot be eliminated from tho blography of Jesus; if, on the con- trary, the miraculous is incompat- Ible with history, the Gospels can- rot be sourcen, of historical au- thority. No more frank avowal of the thoroughly unhistorical I propose this evening to deal method of rationalist Bible critic- with the Higher Criticism, of theism could be formulated. Gospels. My plan will bo to give What was the fate of the an outline of the, vlowa of the "Myth" theory? I quote Har various schools which have at-pack! "The assertion of Strauss tacked the Gospels, with the brief that the Gospels contained very cat possible comment on each and much that was mythical has not I shall then narrow down the dis- been verified; even if we allow the cussion to the most vital point of very indefinite and erroneous ideo

"Christian history-the Resurrec- tion of Our Saviour, and examine the value of the various hypotheses put forward by that crucial test.-

of the mythical of which Strauss makes use." Ma

nother critic, Chamberlain, la more severe. He writes:

To avoid possible misunder- "At the beginning of the nine- standing, I wish to make two pre-teenth century. It had become liminary remarks, The first is the fashion to explain everything that when I use the term "ration

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alist" or "rationalistic' I include David Strausa followed the exam- not only those who would call plo given him on all sides and themaolves Rationalists but all offered as a key to the Gospels, those who approach the study of the idea of myth," To-day the question with the philosophi everyone sees that not an cal presuppositions of ration-iden' but simply a being, who ac- aliam, víz, the rejection of, all that tually lived, as well as the in- is supernatural or miraculous.comparable impression of a Per The second is that in this lecture Isonality, such as the world had shall neither quote from, nor cite never previously known, give thei the authority of a single Catholic | 'key' to the origin of Christianity Bible Scholar. There is, of course, ......The progress of the histori- A vast literature on Bible que cal and critical research..causes tions on the Catholic side by Strauss's mythological theory to scholars of eminence and distinc- be regarded to-day as so dead, tion-but by employing this self- even from its inception, that one denying ordinance, I shall not be cannot look through the pages of open to the charge of quoting au- this worthy man without yawning thora with prejudices in our fa- audibly."

VOUT.

Deception Theory.

TendencyHypothesis.

The Myth theory being dead, the The first to apply the principles pendulum awung back again to of rationalism to the Gospel alory deception. Ferdinand Christian was Herman Samuel Reimarus Baur went back unblushingly to (1694-1768). His position was Reimarus. For him the Gospels that the whole Biblical history, were invented in the second cen. Especially the New Testament, tury to settle a conflict between was a fraud perpetrated by the Jewish and Gentile Christianity, disciples of Jesus on their credul- the Petrists and the Paulista as ous and ignorant followers. They le called them. But the argu invented the story as a means of ments which crushed the first Do- livelihood when Jesus failed: Inception theory crushed Baur too. His mission-according to Reim- "The whole critical apparatus arua a political mission to, free with which Baur has disputed the the Jews from Roman domination. old tradition rightly passes to-day Even Rationalists realised' the for worthless." So confesses absurdity of the hypothesis. It Harnack. rever hnda serious hearing. Later rationaliste, however; dif- fer from Reimarus not quite so much as they themselves would like to think,

Sceptical Criticism.

Rationallat Criticism was hard put to it. desperate disease requires a desperate remedy and Bruno Bauer (1809-1882) Invent- ed it. He denied not only the historicity of the Gospela but even claimed that such a person as Jesus of Nazareth had never lived at all. For 40 years he wrote his hymns of hate but long. before his last book appeared, his

fe-work was condemned and forgotten." Amazing as It may seem, Bauer's worthless theory has been dug up again in recent years by a few Critice. Their as- sertions, however, have met al- most everywhere with the con- tempt which they deserve.

"Natural" Explanation. Mindful of the Reimarus flasco, Paulus (died 1851) let the Gospels go apparently for history but in terpreted them "naturally and rationally." Unfortunately for Paulus, the "natural" explanation wag so unnatural that Strauss had little difficulty in destroying it scientifically within A few yours. Subsequently, however, it formed the favourite theory for the romantic blographies of Christ. It made possible, for ex- ample, Renan's Life of Christ which appeared in 1863. of The second half of the nine- Ronan's work another critic (Lut-toenth century saw a return to hardt) wrote in 1864:

sanity and criticism has been forc- "It is a book in which only thed to give up one date after an- topography of Palestine, where other, until to-day it accepts dates the author travelled, is true and for the Gospels that are appro only the language la beautiful.ximately those of Christian tradi- All the rest offends at every step tion. I give a few dates as sam- both those experienced in such plea of the process: matters and also, the Christian by In 1872 Keim dated the its superficiality and godlessness."

Renan (so the younger Dumas In 1876 Halgenfeld, ....... 70

Synoptica at between 70 and 117. informs us) received a

100, francs from the Jew, Rothschild. In 1897 Welas...... 69

million In 1886 Holtzmann

... 68 100. for having written the book. He In 1908 Harnack

better Bargain than B

By 1911 Harnack had given still Judas. Renan, however, had sunk carlier dates, holding that Mat into obscurity before his death in thew must be dated at 70, our pre-

made

1892,

Mythical Hypothesis. Next comes Strauss (1808-1874). Having destroyed the "natural" explanation of Paulus, Strauss practically returns to Rehnarus. "Undesigned, poetical, legend" re- places deception. Miracles in particular are "Mythical garlands which enwreathe the portrait of Jesus of Nazareth." The Gospels originated far down the, second

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same hera also: We are back at. the traditional dates. From 160-. 170, dates given by Baur and Bruno Bauer, we get back to. 150-160- with Schwegler Volkmar gives (Continued on Page 11.).

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