A GREAT SCHOLAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 951, 7 February 1911, Page 4

A GREAT SCHOLAR.

Professor Flint is dead. He held the Chair of Divinity in Edinburgh University from 1876 to 1903. “On taking up the duties ot the Edinburgh Chair, Professor Flint delivered an inaugural address, in which,” says the Glasgow Herald, “he pleaded that doctrinal theology should rest upon a wider foundation than bad been usually laid, and that it should take account not merely of Scripture and the history of doctrine, but of ethnic religions, philosophy and science. The general standpoint of Professor Flint’s class lectures was what the German’s call Rationalistic Supernaturalism. He held as emphatically as Huxley that we ought to go as far as reason warrants us and no further, but with the caveat that it is reasonable to accept special revelations as an additional source of knowledge. He taught that it is the business of religious philosophy to unify religious knowledge of which the content of the Christian revelation forms the most important part. He lived the unobtrusive but not uneventful life of a great scholar, a great writer, a great aud beloved teacher.”