LECTURE I
Page 3 Note 1 See
Note A.--The Idea of the "Weltanschauung."
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Page 5 Note 1 Kirtik d. r. Vernunft, pp. 302ff. (Bohn's trans., pp. 256 ff.). The references to Kant throughout are to Eerdmann's edition (1884).
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Page 5 Note 2 Cf. Zeller on Hesiod's Theogony, Pre-Socratic Philosophy, pp. 88, 89 (Eng. trans.).
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Page 5 Note 3 See Note B.--Classification of "Weltanschauungen."
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Page 5 Note 4 Bk. I. L1. 54-57 (Munro's trans.). Cf. Lucretius and the Atomic Theory, by Professor John Veitch, p. 13.
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Page 6 Note 1 Caird's Social Philosophy of Comte, p. 24.
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Page 6 Note 2 Cf. Strauss--"We proceed from the isolated circles of phenomena around us, from the stable basis and the elementary forces, to vegetable and animal life, to the universal life of the earth, from this to that of our solar system, and so ever further, till at last we have grasped the entire range of existence in a single representation; and this is the representation of the universe.--Der alte und der neue Glaube, p.150.
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Page 7 Note 1 "As science becomes more conscious of its problems and its goal, it struggles the more strenuously towards the region where physics melt into metaphysics."--Fairbairn, Studies in the Philosophy of Religion and History, p. 88.
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Page 7 Note 2 See Note C Unconscious Metaphysic.
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Page 7 Note 3 "The question of questions for mankind the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other, is the ascertainment of the place which man occupies in nature, and of his relation to the universe of things. Whence our race has come, what are the limits of our power over nature and of nature's power over us? to what goal we are tending? are the problems which present themselves anew, and with undiminished interest, to every man born into the world. Huxley, Man's Place in Nature. p. 57.
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Page 9 Note 1 Cf. Dorner, Syst. of Doct.i. p. 155 (Eng. trans.).
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Page 9 Note 2 Tennyson In Memoriam.
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Page 9 Note 3 SeeNote D.--Antagonism of Christian and "Modern" Views of the World.
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Page 9 Note 4 See Note E--Internal Conflicts of the "Modern" View.
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Page 10 Note 1 Cf. Max Müller, Preface to his Lectures on Anthropological Religion (Gifford Lectures), 1892.
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Page 11 Note 1 History of the Church i. p. 2 (Eng. trans.).
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Page 12 Note 1 Cf. Baring-Gould--"In every religion of the world is to be found, distorted or exaggerated, some great truth, otherwise it would never have obtained foothold; every religious revolution has been the struggle of thought to gain another step in the ladder that reaches to heaven. That which we ask of Revelation is that it shall take up all these varieties into itself, not that it shall supplant them; and show how that at which each of them aimed, however dimly and indistinctly has its interpretation and realisation in the objective truth brought to light by Revelation. Hence we shall be able to recognise that religion to be the true one, which is the complement and corrective of all the wanderings of the religious instinct in its efforts to provide objects for its own satisfaction."--Origin and Development of Religious Belief, ii. Pref., p. 10.
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Page 12 Note 2 Cf. Areopagitica, "English Reprints," p. 56 Clement of Alexandria has a similar figure, Strom. i. 13.
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Page 12 Note 3 Cf. Eph. iv. 6. Flint, Anti-Theistic Theories, p. 339.
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Page 13 Note 1 Cf. Dorner, Syst. of Doct. i. pp. 366, 367 (Eng. trans.). Even Ed. v. Hartmann recognises the deep "metaphysical sense" of the doctrine of the Trinity, and the service done by it in reconciling the Divine immanence and transcendence.--Selbstzersetzung des Christenthums, p. 108.
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Page 14 Note 1 Alttestamentliche Theologie, p. 48.
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Page 14 Note 2 See Note F.--Uniqueness of the Old Testament View.
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Page 15 Note 1 Cf. the sketch of Zoroastrianism in Introduction to the Zendavesta in Sacred Books of the East. See also Ebrard's Christian Apologetics, ii. pp. 186-232. Some interesting remarks will be found in Lotze's Microcosmus, ii. p. 459.
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Page 15 Note 2 Dr. Dorner says--"Israel has the idea of teleology as a kind of soul."--Syst. of Doct. i. p. 274 (Eng. trans.).
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Page 15 Note 3 See Note G.--Origin of the Old Testament View--Relation to Critical Theories.
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Page 16 Note 1 See Note H.--Nature and Definition of Religion.
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Page 17 Note 1 See Note I.--Undogmatic Religion.
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Page 18 Note 1 Religionsphilosophie, ii. p. 32.
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Page 19 Note 1 See Note J.--Æsthetic Theories of Religion.
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Page 19 Note 2 Cf. Dorner--"Faith does not wish to be a mere relation to itself or to its representations and thoughts. That would simply be a monologue faith desires a dialogue."--Syst. of Doct. i. p. 123 (Eng. trans.).
Martineau--"No; if religious communion is reduced to a monologue, its essence is extinct, and its soul is gone. It is a living relation, or it is nothing--a response to the Supreme Reality."--Ideal Substitutes for God, p.19.
Strauss--"None but a book student could ever imagine that a creation of the brain, woven of poetry and philosophy, can take the place of real religion."--In Kaiser Julian, p. 12 (quoted by Martineau).
Page 20 Note 1 Cf. Professor W. R. Smith's Religion of the Semites--"The antique religions had for the most part no creed; they consisted entirely of institutions and practices....In all the antique religions mythology takes the place of dogma, that is, the sacred lore of priests and people, so far as it does not consist of mere rules for the performance of religious acts assumes the form of stories about use gods; and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual."--P. 18.
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Page 21 Note 1 Ps. xxxvi. 6.
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Page 22 Note 1 Cf. Bartlett's The Letter and the Spirit (Bampton Lectures. 1888).
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Page 22 Note 2 Eph. i. 17, 18; iv. 13.
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Page 22 Note 3 1 John iv. 2, 15.
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Page 22 Note 4 1 Cor. xv. 3.
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Page 23 Note 1 Grundriss der Dogmengeschichte, i. p. 1. I have used the word "doctrine" in these discussions and kept clear of dogma which is often used with a prejudice. "Dogma I take to be a formulation of doctrine stamped with some ecclesiastical authority. If there are doctrines no objection can reasonably be taken to the formulation of them. It is beyond my purpose to discuss the wider question of the utility and necessity of creeds for church purposes Cf. Lect. VI. in Dr. Rainy's (Delivery and Development of Christian Doctrine(Cunningham Lectures).
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Page 23 Note 2 Der christ. Glaubesects. 3 and 4.
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Page 23 Note 3 Cf. Pfleiderer s Religionsphilosophie, i. p. 308 (Eng. trans.).
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Page 24 Note 1 Der christ. Glaube, sect. 3. 2.
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Page 24 Note 2 Ibid. sect. 11.
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Page 25 Note 1 Cf. Dr. Rainy's Delivery and Development of Doctrines (Cunningham Lectures). On the position criticised see, e.g., Bartlett's The Letter and the Spirit (Bampton Lectures, 1888).
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Page 26 Note 1 See Note K.--Religious and Theoretic Knowledge.
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Page 26 Note 2 Rechtfertigung und Versöhnung, iii. pp. 185, 193-94 (3rd edit.).
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Page 26 Note 3 See Ritschl's discussion in Recht. und Ver. iii. pp. 192-202; and in his Theologie und Metaphysik.
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Page 26 Note 4 E.g. Bender, of Bonn.
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Page 27 Note 1 Cf. Ritschl's remarks on "Miracle" in his Unterricht in der christ. Religion, pp 14, 15.
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Page 28 Note 1 This seems the view taken in O. Ritschl's Uber Werthurtheile, but would, if accepted, reduce the distinction to a truism.
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Page 30 Note 1 Cf. Ritschl, Recht. und Ver. iii. pp. 14-16.
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FOOTNOTES APPENDIX TO LECTURE I
Page 33 Note 1 1 Tim. iii. 16.
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Page 33 Note 2 Eph. i. 10.
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Page 34 Note 1 Cor. xv. 24-28.
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Page 36 Note 1 The original plan embraced a Lecture between Lecture VIII. and what is now IX.--on "The Incarnation and New Life of Humanity: the Kingdom of God." The subject is touched on in Lecture IX., and dealt with more fully in an Appendix.
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