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ON THE MYTHICAL INTERPRETATION OP THE BIBLE, FROM JAHN'S BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY! WITH SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . IX .
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If we look back on the history of Biblical Criticism for the last thirty or forty years , we shall find that , except in Germany , scarcely any member of the Roman Catholic Church has been distinguished by the cultivation of it . The labours of De Rossi , however valuable in the confined department with which he has occupied himself , can hardly be said to form an exception ,
and the Catholics themselves would decline to produce Geddes . The condition of the Spanish peninsula and of France during that time has been such , that we cannot wonder that they have furnished no contributions towards the improvement of this science . The situation of the British Catholics has been in some respects more favourable , but their countrymen of the Established Church have done little or nothing to excite them to emulation in the study of biblical criticism . The exasperation produced by the
political measures of the ruling party in England towards the Catholics ^ has turned the talents of both parties into the channel of polemics , and those too of the most miserable and personal kind . Whether Gardner persecuted or Cranmer vacillated a little more or a little less , whether Mary or Elizabeth better deserved the epithet of bloody 9 whether the decrees of the Council of Trent or the articles of the English Church are the more intolerant—these , and such as these , are the questions on which the Catholics and Protestants of this enlightened country are content to waste their strength . The
Catholic Church , indeed , we are well convinced , will never more take the lead in cultivating the study of the Scriptures ; it is the Protestants who must give the example , and make their opponents feel the necessity of furnishing themselves with the same knowledge in order to keep their ground in controversy . As long , therefore , as the clergy of the English Church remain , what we deliberately and advisedly declare them to be , even now , the most destitute of theological knowledge , taken as a body , of any Protestant clergy in Europe , * so long the Catholics may safely confine their professional studies to martyrology , ecclesiastical history , and canon law .
* To those who are accustomed to panegyrize the English universities and depreciate all others , we would recommend a comparison of the course of theological study in either of them , with the following statement of the education of the Roman Catholic clergy of Bavaria , as given in the Revue Encyclope"dique for May , 1827 , pp .
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SEPTEMBER , 1827 .
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VOL . I . 2 T
On The Mythical Interpretation Op The Bible, From Jahn's Biblical Archaeology! With Some Preliminary Remarks.
ON THE MYTHICAL INTERPRETATION OP THE BIBLE , FROM JAHN ' S BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY ! WITH SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/1/
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