Author: R. A. Knox

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-25

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780331936438

Excerpt from Some Loose Stones, Being a Consideration of Certain, Tendencies in Modern Theology: Illustrated by Reference to the Book Called Foundations The history of the present work is as follows. About two years ago I was privileged by an invitation to join a sort of Eranos, a body of eight Oxford Fellows who met in each others' rooms, on Fridays throughout the term, for Sext, luncheon, and None. It had included, I think, all, and still includes several, of the Seven Oxford Men who wrote Foundations. I was aware of the imminence of that production; and long before its appearance set about writing a parody of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel to greet its birth. The parody, which appeared in the Oxford Magazine almost immediately after the book itself had been published, laid itself open to two criticisms. Old-fashioned theologians, who were distressed at recent evidences of the trend of modern' theology, asked why I couldn't attack the book in earnest. More Liberal thinkers were under the impression that there was something cowardly about a style of criticism which, after the manner of guera warfare, hid itself behind the rock of Satire and dis charged irresponsible shots into the somewhat broad target presented to it. There is only one way of satisfying both criticisms, which was not then open to me, as I had not read Foundations itself and that is to write a serious criticism of it. 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.