If we view the literary characteristic of the present, in comparison with that of past ages, we are perhaps right in stating, that its peculiar feature is the prevalence of the method of historical criticism.
It gave encouragement to the study of history; but it was to the history of philosophy, not to the investigations conducted by historical criticism.
It will be observed that they are for the most part a direct result either of sensational metaphysics or of the incipient science of historical criticism.
Historical criticism, in its appreciation of literary evidence, may be of four kinds.
The chief defects of Herodotus are his failure to grasp the principles of historical criticism, to understand the nature of military operations, and to appreciate the importance of chronology.
The task of historical criticism in the case of the Peloponnesian War is widely different from its task in the case of the Persian Wars.
Hegel was personally no friend to historical criticism.
This position is antagonized by those who hold a naturalistic or pantheistic view of the world and also by those who, whatever may be their philosophy, are using the weapons of historical criticism to discredit miraculous Christianity.
We cannot call this a vicious canon of historical criticism; for it simply excludes historical criticism altogether.
But you have not a proof which can stand the test of psychological or historical criticism.
My faith has been destroyed by historical criticism, not by scholasticism nor by philosophy.
This movement of theological thought had its origin in a new science, the science of historical criticism, which had its birth in our own nineteenth century.
Till we have new light, we shall maintain, therefore, this principle of historical criticism, that a supernatural relation cannot be accepted as such, that it always implies credulity or imposture.
But the next distinct stage is reached when we come to De Wette, whose contributions to Biblical learning were many and varied, but who was pre-eminent in historical criticism.
For the general principles of Historical Criticism see Ch.
Strong in historical criticism, De Wette was weak in historical construction.
Two conclusions may be drawn from what we have just said: the extreme complexity and the absolute necessity of Historical Criticism.
It is not the whole of "historical criticism;" it is only one stone in the edifice.
All three, again, are disciples of Martin Lebrecht de Wette, the epochmaking pioneer of historical criticism in this field.
It is rightly therefore assigned by historical criticism to the period of the attacks made on the Bamoth by the reforming party at Jerusalem.
Historical criticism is a comparatively modern science, and in its application to this, as to other histories, it has made many false and uncertain steps.
But historical criticism tends precisely to circumscribe vain imaginings and to establish with exactitude the point of view from which we must look.
Compared with the crude criticism on The Grosvenor Gallery (one of the earliest of Wilde's published prose writings), Historical Criticism is singularly advanced and mature.
What a valuable step this was in the improvement of the method of historical criticism it is needless to point out.
Yale Review, May, 1892), and in his Essays in Historical Criticism (N.
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