Excerpt from A Critical Introduction to the New Testament The book is written from a scientific standpoint. By this it is not intended that it is written with a bias against tradition, but that it is written with a desire to be loyal to the facts. The author is conscious of no wish to be in the critical fashion or out of it. That the great questions of faith cannot ultimately be ignored hardly needs -to be said, and he has not shrunk from discussing them in their proper place. But it is desirable that, so far as may be, the critical problems should be detached from them. We may look forward to the time when scholars will cease to label a criticism they dislike as apologetic or unbelieving, ' and shall also cease to deserve the a'lxing of such labels. The author has finally to thank the Editor of the London Quarterly Review for his cordial permission to use an article on the Fourth Gospel contributed by him to that periodical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.