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194 Dangers of compromise 195 The Christian Plerosis: the fulfillment of the great religious ideas of the race 197

CHAPTER VI

The Christian Faith and Biblical Criticism The value and significance of Biblical Criticism 200 Relation between the Old Testament and the New Testament 201 I. The Pauline Epistles 203 The Tübingen view and later criticism 204 The Epistle to the Ephesians 204 II. The Acts of the Apostles 205 Evidences of trustworthiness 206 Harnack on the Lukan authorship 208 Harnack and Koch on the date 210 Did Luke use Josephus? 213 III. The Synoptic Problem 216 The Two-Document theory 217 Modifications of the theory by the assumption: (1) of a larger dependence on oral tradition 219 (2) of the use of Q by Mark 220 (3) of different editions of Mark 220 "Secondary elements" in Mark 221 Bearing of Harnack's early dating of the Lukan writings 225 The inter-Synoptic differences 226 IV. The Johannine Problem 227 Evidence for Apostolic authorship 228 Rejection of Apostolic authorship on the assumption: (1) that John never lived at Ephesus 230 (2) that there were two Johns at Ephesus 232 The partition theory 234 The internal evidence: style and contents of the Fourth Gospel 234 Relation to the Synoptic Gospels as supplementary, explanatory and independent 236