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Not that the results at which this school of critics arrived have been adopted. On the contrary, in most essentials they have been long since outgrown and rejected by the leading scholars of Germany and the world. But the Christian world has by no means returned to the position it occupied before the conflict aroused by the publications of this school. The effects of that conflict have been nothing less than marvelous. The man who is unquestionably entitled to be called the head of this school is Ferdinand Christian Baur, who died at Tübingen twenty-five years ago. One of the ablest men that Germany has ever produced the ablest without exception in his field, I think I may say-endowed with great acuteness and ingenuity, marvelous objectivity, perfect fearlessness of consequences, and indefatigable industry, he stood at the head of a movement which gave Christianity as a historical faith such a shock as it had never before received, and which for half a century carried everything before it in Germany. Yet if any one should suppose that the work of Baur and his school was an unmixed injury to the cause of historical Christianity, or that in its ultimate results it was an injury at all, I should dissent from that opinion most decidedly. Christian thought in Germany in the time of Baur was asleep and needed to be waked up. It was bound with the fetters of traditionalism, and needed to be freed from them. The Christian faith rested upon foundations whose historical truth and stability had up to that time been assumed. They had never been thoroughly, candidly, fearlessly tested and proved. 1 Given as a lecture to the students of the Tufts College Divinity School. NEW SERIES. VOL. XXIV. 25 Such thorough and fearless testing of foundations is a task almost never undertaken, in the first instance, by those who fully accept and are fully satisfied with the system built upon them. The beginnings of criticism are almost always negative and destructive in their tendency. It is only when provoked and called out in this way that positive and constructive criticism is, ordinarily, called out at all. It was the negative and destructive criticism of Baur and his compeers, the results of which swept away, or seemed to sweep away, the very foundations of Christianity as a historical faith, which availed, and which alone could have availed, to stir the sluggish current of Christian thought, and incite believers in historical Christianity to examine, carefully and thoroughly, the foundations of their faith, and to establish them, such of them as should sustain the examination and could be established, incontrovertibly. It was necessary that this destruetive criticism should be extreme, affecting things regarded as fundamental; otherwise it would have excited little interest and called forth little investigation and response. It was necessary that the task be ably done; otherwise it would not have put the ablest writers and thinkers of Germany and of the world upon their mettle and called out their best efforts in defense of what they had been accustomed to look upon as the indubitable foundations of their Christian faith. As a result of this extreme negative and destructive criticism and of the activity in investigation which it called forth, the Christian faith stands to-day upon an incomparably firmer historical basis than ever before- and that notwithstanding the apparently well-nigh utter demolition of that basis by this criticism. In reality, there are few men whom the Christian Church, aud particularly the cause of historical Christianity, has greater reason to thank than Baur and his associates of the Tübingen school. The results of this criticism, as applied to the commonly accepted documents of Christianity—namely, the canonical books of the New Testament, are, in brief, as follows: Of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament five only |