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THE ANDOVER REVIEW: A RELIGIOUS AND THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY. VOL. XI.-JUNE, 1889.- No. LXVI. THE GOSPEL MIRACLES AND HISTORICAL DOES historical science reject the gospel miracles? Upon the answer we give this question must depend our opinion of the fairness of a recent famous attack upon Christianity, that of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Her argument rests upon the assumption that modern historical science has declared the gospels unworthy of credence in so far as they contain accounts of miracles. It may be formulated thus: Students of history have fashioned trustworthy tests of the truthfulness of ancient narratives. Some of them have applied those tests to the gospels, and claim to have found that those narratives are untrustworthy, at least in their ascription of supernatural powers to Jesus Christ. Therefore those who respect the processes and conclusions of historical science must withhold credence from the gospel miracles, and keep aloof from a religion which demands that Jesus Christ be recognized as a superhuman being. This is, I think, a fair summary of the argument wrought into "Robert Elsmere," and more fully stated in Mrs. Ward's article in the "Nineteenth Century" for March, entitled "The New Reformation." The magazine article, to be sure, deals chiefly with the attitude of German historical theology towards the miraculous. But as it claims this theology to be the only scientific one, the only one which fairly applies to the Christian documents the methods of modern historical investigation, its argument is identical with that so cleverly stated in the novel. |