Historical Criticism (4 of 4 notes)

Part One
INTRODUCTION: 5 CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Orr further states:

On the other hand, a new and intensely aggressive radical school has recently come to the front, the so-called ‘historical-critical,’ which treats the text and history of the Gospels generally with a recklessness to which no limits can be put. It is even doubted if Jesus claimed to be the Messiah (Wrede). Sayings are accepted, rejected, or mutilated at pleasure.³

Orr expressed the belief that “these excesses may be depended on to cure themselves,” but since his day Historical Criticism has gone to even greater excesses.

3            Ibid., II, p. 753.

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