Argument and counter-argument must be drawn from the contents. The theological scholarship which had to meet the attacks of Steck and van Manen had no solid arguments to oppose to them. Its Paulinism was so complicated, Hellenised and modernised, that it could at need find a place in theological text-books, but not in primitive Christianity. On the other hand, an explanation which shows that the Apostle’s system is based on the most primitive eschatological premises, and at the same time makes it intelligible why subsequent generations could not continue to follow the road on which he started, thereby demonstrates his primitive Christianity and, to this extent, also the genuineness of his chief Epistles. The possibility that they might be primitive-Christian, and yet not written by the historic Apostle of the Gentiles, hardly calls for serious consideration. Any one who works out this solution is the true pupil of Baur, however widely he may diverge from him in his views and results. By unequivocally determining the date of the writings in question on internal grounds and excluding all other possibilities he is exercising “positive criticism” in the sense intended by the Tübingen master, and justifies him in the face of the adversaries against whom he can no longer defend himself. It may no doubt prove to be the case that this “positive” criticism will appear distressingly negative to those who look for results which can be immediately coined into dogmatic and homiletic currency. Their opinion, however, is of small importance. It is the fate of the “Little-faiths” of truth that they, true followers of Peter, whether they be of the Roman or the Protestant observance, cry out and sink in the sea of ideas, where the followers of Paul, believing in the Spirit, walk secure and undismayed. [pg 251] INDEX Ammon, C. F. von, 3 n. Anrich, Gustav, 179, 189, 231 Aratus, 94 Aubertin, Charles, 95 n. Augustine, 95 n. Aurelian, 181 Baljon, J. M. S., 117, 118, 125, 148 n. Bauer, Bruno, 24, 28, 117, 120 ff. Baumgarten, Michael, 96 n. Baumgarten, S. J., 1, 3 Baur, F. C., 12 ff., 20 f., 25, 33, 81, 118 f. Baur, F. F., 20 n. Beyschlag, Willibald, 22, 26, 41 Bousset, W., 48 n., 151, 152, 162 Brandt, W., 24, 60 n. Brückner, Martin, 152, 171, 179, 193 n. Brückner, Wilhelm, 118, 134 n. Bruston, E., 24, 74 n. Caligula, 184 Calvin, 33 Claudius, 183 Clemen, Karl, 118, 179, 189 n. Clement of Rome, 119, 128, 135 Cumont, Franz, 179, 181, 183 n., 185 n., 192 Curtius, Ernst, 24, 87, 94 n. Dähne, A. F., 2, 10 n. Deissmann, Adolf, 23, 60 n., 153, 172 n., 179, 189 n. De Jong, H. E., 181 Delitzsch, Franz, 23, 47 De Wette, W. M. L., 2, 10 n. Dibelius, Martin, 152, 162 n. Dick, Karl, 151, 155 n. Dieterich, Albrecht, 179, 186 ff., 190, 193 n., 194, 195, 228 n., 230 Dobschütz, Ernst von, 152, 169 Domitian, 128 Drescher, A., 151, 153, 159 n. Drews, Arthur, 179, 234 f.