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The Problem of Christian Origins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Kirsopp Lake
Affiliation:
Harvard University

Extract

Johannes Weiss, Das Urchristentum, Göttingen, 1917.

Alfred Loisy, Les Actes des Apôtres, Paris, 1920.

F. J. Foakes Jackson and Kirsopp Lake, The Beginnings of Christianity, Volume I, London, 1920.

Eduard Meyer, Ursprung und Anfänge des Christentums, Stuttgart and Berlin, 1921.

Roland Schütz, Apostel und Jünger, eine quellenkritische und geschichtliche Untersuchung über die Entstehung des Christentums, Giessen, 1921.

B. H. Streeter, ‘Fresh Light on the Synoptic Problem,’ Hibbert Journal, October, 1921.

The purpose of this article is not so much to offer a review of the books mentioned above as to indicate briefly their nature and contents, and to discuss the varied yet similar points of view which they represent toward some of the problems in the story of Christian origins as studied today.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1922

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References

1 Something of Dr. Sanday's later state of mind may be learned from his book, published in 1920, entitled ‘Divine Overruling.’

2 He states in the Modern Churchman that I represent Jesus as a man of secondrate importance who allowed his disciples to call him ‘Sir.’ It is of course easy to refute this representation. But it is not mine.

3 This would be denied by some critics, but I think that Wellhausen certainly has the better of Harnack on this point. In any case, even if it be not so, the influence of Q on Mark was small. Here too the suggestions of Wellhausen and Eduard Meyer as to the sources of Mark deserve further attention.