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Art . I . —Theologi&che Studien und Kritiken . { Thebtogtcal Essays and Critical Sketches . No . IV . November , 1828 . Hamburg . P . Perthes . ) { From a Foreign Correspondent . ) The Theological Magazine and Review , which is published under the above unpretending title , Is conducted by Professors Ullmann and Umbreit , of Who
Heidelberg ^ have eecured , in their editorial labours , the co-operation of Drs . Gieseler , Liicke , and Nitzsch . Those who have paid any attention to the present state of theological literature in Germany , need not be infofmed ' that the writers whom we have just mentioned have all distinguished themselves , chiefly in- the exegetical and historical departments . Their co-operation has tended
to produce a very favourable impression of the character of the maga * - zine ; and as far as we have beeu able to learn , the expectations of the public have not by any means been disappointed . The advantages of solid ieaniing which a work thus respectably conducted must combine , cannot fail to counteract that shallowness of mere speculation of which one class of German divines has
been accused , and not perhaps altogether without reason . The principles of the magazine may be characterized as leaning rather towards the system of mper natural ism ; that is to say , the fact of a revelatiou is acknowledged , and the books of the New Testament are recognised as the documents from which the character of the Christian
revelation is to be ascertained : but we may truly say that we have not discover * ed one illiberal sentiment towards those who may differ from these views , and that we have every where in these pages found a spirit of liberty , of research , aud of independence from antiquated articles of faith , which , though a welcome phenomenon to the readers of the
Monthly Repository , would not escape denunciation by that self-constituted critic of German theology , the Kev . Mr . Rose , or those who resemble him iu ignorance and intolerance . In order to enable the English reader to form a general idaa , of the character and contents of the . work , we shall notice some of the articles which are inserted in the
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fourth number of the Review just published . l * he first paper forms the concluding part of an article by Nkzsch , on the Religious Ideas of the Ancients , continued from No * HI . It contains a number of strikiug remarks on the character of religious sentiment and worship among
the andetrts , and endeavours to trace the relation in which the different systems of Grecian philosophy stood to what the moderns have called the philosophy of religion . It instances theNexpresaion of religious feeling even among those who are generally considered to have dFsmlssecl all those ideas which are
bound up with the veneration of a Supreme Being as intimately connected with , and influencing , the world . This paper , to our minds , conveys an admirable illustration of the fact , that if religious opinions are not placed within the control of the individual's own choice * so religious feeling is something independent of and much deeper than , the speculative opinions with which it is combined * . The remarks on the
Mysteries are among" the" most interesting parts of fehe essay . The second article is a critical dissertation on a work of John Scotus on the Sacrament , which was hitherto supposed to have been lost , but which is here all but proved to have never existed , while the treatise ascribed to Scotus is traced to
Ratramnus as ite author * This paper , by F * \ V \ Laufs , Cand . Theol ., which evinces considerable ingenuity and extensive reading , may serve as a specimen of the accuracy with which the details of literary history are cultivated by the German theological writers . Professor H age n bach has communicated some
observations on the proper division of periods in the history of doctrinal theories , and Dr . Ullmann has published for the first time , what he calls a Relic of Melancthon , a few sentences which he wrote ia a book presented to a friend , . and which breathe the mild and
Christian spirit of the Reformer . Among the reviews , perhaps the most interesting is a notice by UUmann of a little work by the venerable Milliter : Finn . JVIunteju Episcopi Icelandic , Notitia Codicis Graeci , Evangelium Johannis variatum continentis . Hnvnise , 1828 . pi > , 36 , 8 vo .
Critical Notices.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1829, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2568/page/50/
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