CANON DRIVER.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1794, 5 July 1913, Page 9

CANON DRIVER.

A PIONEER 01? BIBLICAL CRITICISM. < In a si:«dy of Civnon S. E. Driver in tlio "Homilctic Keview," Mrs. E. Hermann ] recalls the "uneasiness, approaching to i panic," created .in' tlio earlier days of the j historical criticism of the Old Testament, j "The general theological public in Ensland, Tinable to estimate the real depth of scholarship and wealth of penetrative insight which lay behind such critical work, saw in it either an arbitrary and somewhat childish, puzzlo-gamo witli E, .T, and P for bricks, not to mention a variety of nnlabclled blocks, or clso 'they regarded it as a malignant ;md dangerous upon tlio very citadel of tlio Christian j faith. ■ . i

"Dr. Driver possesses peculiar qualities for pioneering work in tho reaTm of Biblical criticism. No other theological personality known to us could li.ito captured the mind of-his generation with such compelling and reassuring force as this watchful and cautious Oxford professor, with his characteristic sobriety of mental outlook, his nnexceptionally rovnront tone, and his all but'extreme caution."

"Dr. Driver," says the "Christian World," "has not only hold his course successfully through a particularly gravo theological {risk. hitf. it. is. ferg§|£ ctvjfig

to his work that the crisis has issued in a deepenod and clarified faith instead of leaving a widespread deposit of profane rationalism."