BIBLE CRITICISM
BY noted scholars
(United Press Association- By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 9.E>. a.m.) LONDON, November ,50.
The “Daily Mail” is featuring an epoch in Bible criticism, which is the work of some of the most learned and most devout scholars of the Anglican communion, and in which ceitain 01 ~ accepted Biblical stories are declared myths. The editor is Doctor harles Gore, the greatest living English theologian, assisted bv Canon Groudgc and Rev. Alfred Guillame. The book declares Bible stories such as the flood and turning Lot’s wife into a pillai of salt are simply symbols. While the book contains lew surprises to anyone ■acquainted with the G‘ lU o higher criticism and the views ol l'' )( - 1,1 churchmen, many of its statements aie likely to shock orthodox people Among the opinions of coi.tnl.utoi . are that Genesis is legendary, lsa.al. r largely a compilation of the idea, th( Garden of Eden is common to «« than one primitive race, the lah is physiologically n.compa d,le u.U the structure of the lmnuni ' bodyand so forth. The evidence of Lhnst s c istei.ee and the resurrection, l.owevc.. is regarded as overwhelming.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1928, Page 5
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