xxiv Change in Religious Thought. 



upon Himself a human nature, and in that nature 

 strove against the powers of evil, suffering to death 

 in the strife; but was raised from the dead and 

 exalted into Heaven by the might of the Father, to 

 declare His victory, and, with it, the salvation of 

 mankind. I am aware that Professor Drummond 

 believes these doctrines, for he has told us so, and 

 his honesty is beyond question. But he has told us 

 so only in passages which have no logical connection 

 with the rest of his work, and he has not made it 

 evident how it is possible for an Evangelical Christian 

 to write of conversion and salvation, without ex- 

 pressly basing them on the Atonement of Christ. 

 The change which must have come over religious 

 thought before such a book could have been favour- 

 ably received by religious men, appears to be a new 

 manifestation of the modern tendency to an exagger- 

 ated and excessive subjectivity or, to use a more 

 intelligible word, self-occupation which in our days 

 causes religious thought to dwell, much more than 

 in earlier times, on the soul of man ; so that such a 

 work as Professor Drummond's may reasonably be 

 complained of as containing little theology though 

 much anthropology ; much about man and little about 

 God. It is said that, in the theology which sprang 

 out of Luther's teaching, the thought of faith, and of 

 justification by faith, often obscured the thought of 

 Christ who is the Object of faith, and of God who 

 justifies; 1 and it would seem that in the present 

 1 0e6s 6 diKai&v. Romans viii, 33. 



