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The correspondence of Hastings Rashdall: 1915 and the Bampton Lectures to 1924

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Letters to Hastings Rashdall about the Bampton Lectures

to which no replies have been found

From Pringle-Pattison,
16th December 1919

"I like particularly the stress you lay on the necessity of not separating the Death from the Life. It is depressing to think that the expiatory theory should still survive & that a man like Denney should lend it countenance. What an idea of God it implies, as you say."

From William Temple,
2nd January 1920
"Having this moment finished the reading of your Bamptons, I want to send a line of thanks and congratulations. I shall be interested to see what the pundits say about your chapter on the Fathers & Schoolmen, where I cannot check you. So far as I can check your comments on other writers, my only doubt would be how far you have done some injustice to St Paul. . . . ."

From Poole, 29th December 1919 "When I heard you lecture, I was apt to think at times that you were flogging a dead horse; for most of us have silently abandoned the doctrines which we were taught in our youth, and it seems hardly to survive except among extreme Evangelicals and among the obscurer dissenting bodies. But I am sure you were right to investigate the whole question, because in giving up a particular doctrine most of us have found it so difficult to find something to take its place."

From W E Inge, 1st February 1920
"I have just finished reading your Bampton Lectures with great admiration and delight. The book seems to me about the finest thing you have written. The learning is ‘massive’; the judgments always sane and sound; and the arrangement excellent."

From H C Jacques, 9th June 1922
"One of the problems that has troubled me for a long time is that there seems such a vast difference between the religion of Jesus and the religion of St. Paul. So many today are more concerned about what S. Paul preached, than what our Lord really taught."

From Molyneux,
24th Feb & 4th March 1923
"My present difficulty & the one in which I venture to ask your help is this - Is it consistent with the view of the divinity of Christ as God’s culminating revelation in humanity that one should pray directly to him?"
"It is very good of you to send me such a full list of books on the Divinity of Christ; in all probability in reading them I shall recapture the sense of communion with him which for the time being feels obscured by the more modern view of Christ."

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The correspondence of Hastings Rashdall: 1915 and the Bampton Lectures to 1924	HastingsRashdall.org.u
Letters to Hastings Rashdall about the Bampton Lectures to which no replies have been found
From Pringle-Pattison, 16th December 1919	"I like particularly the stress you lay on the necessity of not separating the Death from the Life. It is depressing to think that the expiatory theory should still survive & that a man like Denney should lend it countenance. What an idea of God it implies, as you say."
From William Temple, 2nd January 1920	"Having this moment finished the reading of your Bamptons, I want to send a line of thanks and congratulations. I shall be interested to see what the pundits say about your chapter on the Fathers & Schoolmen, where I cannot check you. So far as I can check your comments on other writers, my only doubt would be how far you have done some injustice to St Paul. . . . ."
From Poole, 29th December 1919	"When I heard you lecture, I was apt to think at times that you were flogging a dead horse; for most of us have silently abandoned the doctrines which we were taught in our youth, and it seems hardly to survive except among extreme Evangelicals and among the obscurer dissenting bodies. But I am sure you were right to investigate the whole question, because in giving up a particular doctrine most of us have found it so difficult to find something to take its place."
From W E Inge, 1st February 1920	"I have just finished reading your Bampton Lectures with great admiration and delight. The book seems to me about the finest thing you have written. The learning is ‘massive’; the judgments always sane and sound; and the arrangement excellent."
From H C Jacques, 9th June 1922	"One of the problems that has troubled me for a long time is that there seems such a vast difference between the religion of Jesus and the religion of St. Paul. So many today are more concerned about what S. Paul preached, than what our Lord really taught."
From Molyneux, 24th Feb & 4th March 1923	"My present difficulty & the one in which I venture to ask your help is this - Is it consistent with the view of the divinity of Christ as God’s culminating revelation in humanity that one should pray directly to him?" "It is very good of you to send me such a full list of books on the Divinity of Christ; in all probability in reading them I shall recapture the sense of communion with him which for the time being feels obscured by the more modern view of Christ."
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