THE THEOLOGICAL REVIEW: A Quarterly Journal OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LIFE. VOL. XIII. Nos. LII.-LV. BODI તા WILLIAMS AND NORGATE, 14, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON ; MANCHESTER JOHNSON & RAWSON, 89, MARKET STREET. THE THEOLOGICAL REVIEW. NO. LII-JANUARY, 1876. I. HILGENFELD'S INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT.-II. Historisch-Kritische Einleitung in das Neue Testament. Von Dr. Adolf Hilgenfeld, Grossherzogl. Sächs. Kirchenrath und Professor der Theologie in Jena. Leipzig. 1875. IT has not been the intention of this article to offer an elaborate or detailed criticism of Hilgenfeld's Einleitung, but rather to attempt to ascertain the true function of an Introduction to the New Testament, and then to ask whether Hilgenfeld's work has brought us essentially nearer to its realization. The previous sections have been devoted to the consideration of what an Introduction ought to be, and we now proceed to the question of Hilgenfeld's qualifications for the task he has undertaken, and the degree of success with which he has carried it out. III. An Introduction to the New Testament, if it is essentially to advance Biblical studies, must be a history of the literature of the New Covenant, based upon critical studies of the separate books, and leading up to a history of the origins of Christianity. Synthetic itself, it must rest upon rigorous analysis; and, though primarily a history of literature, it must never be content to rest in the purely literary aspects of the writings with which it deals, but must ever keep in view its main purpose of |