OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE RESURRECTION CANON OF WESTMINSTER; CHAPLAIN TO THE KING
There would be no need for a preface to this second volume were it not that a very kindly and careful review of the first volume in _The Guardian_ of May 24 last, requires a word of notice. The reviewer warns me off 'the dialogue system of exegesis.' Now no doubt this principle, like every other, may be abused. 'The Jewish objector' may, as the reviewer complains, be allowed to 'run riot.' Still I cannot doubt that the Jewish objector is a reality of an illuminative kind in the argument of such passages as Romans iii. 1-8, or the great passage (ix-xi), to which the first part of this volume is devoted. Of the other points of detail noticed by the reviewer--which a volume of this kind is not the place to discuss--many are confessedly doubtful, and some unimportant. On most of { vi} them I am still disposed to retain my former opinion, but I would, in accordance with my critic's wishes, alter 'the actual life' (vol. i. p. 203) into 'the principle of life,' and (p. 213) instead of saying that the principle of living by dying 'belongs only to a fallen world' say that 'it belongs, _as St. Paul views it, though probably not in its ultimate law_, to a fallen world.' I agree that in its deepest sense the principle appears to be an ultimate law of all created life of which the conditions are known to us.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY, _Conversion of St. Paul_, 1900.
DIVISION IV _The theodicy or justification of God for His dealings with the Jews_ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
IX. 1-13 § 1 The present rejection of Israelites no breach of a divine promise . . . . . . . . . . 14
14-29 § 2 God's liberty in showing mercy and judgement always retained and asserted . . . . . . . . . 31
30-x.21 § 3 Lack of faith the reason of Israel's rejection 44
XI. 1-12 § 4 God's judgement on Israel neither universal nor final . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
13-36 § 5 God's present purpose for the Jews through the Gentiles: and so for all humanity . . . . . 68
DIVISION V _Practical exhortation_ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
XII. 1-2 § 1 Self-surrender in response to God . . . . . . . 97
3-21 § 2 The community spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103