This work discussed sundry of the older theological positions which
had been rendered untenable by modern research, and brought to bear
upon them the views of the newer school of biblical interpretation.
The authors were, as a rule, scholars in the prime of life, holding
influential positions in the universities and public schools. They
were seven--the first being Dr. Temple, a successor of Arnold at
Rugby; and the others, the Rev. Dr. Rowland Williams, Prof. Baden
Powell, the Rev. H. B. Wilson, Mr. C. W. Goodwin, the Rev. Mark
Pattison, and the Rev. Prof. Jowett--the only one of the seven not
in holy orders being Goodwin. All the articles were important, though
the first, by Temple, on _The Education of the world_, and the last, by
Jowett, on _The Interpretation of Scripture_, being the most moderate,
served most effectually as entering wedges into the old tradition.
At first no great attention was paid to the book, the only notice
being the usual attempts in sundry clerical newspapers to pooh-pooh
it.
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