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Alexander Balmain Bruce was born at Aberargie near Perth, Scotland on the 31st of January 1831.
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Agnostic is a modern epithet. It was invented some forty years ago by the late Mr. Huxley to distinguish his religious position from that of theists, pantheists, atheists, and to indicate that he, for his part, was not able to make any affirmations of any sort about God; not even that he is, or is not, still less what he is. Thus used the epithet denotes an attitude antithetic to that of the ancient gnostics who believed that an unlimited knowledge of God and the supersensible world was possible, and that its attainment was mans chief good. Since Huxley first coined the term it has steadily gained ever-increasing currency, and, following the fate of all new words, it has been used with various shades of meaning. In strictness it should be applied only to those who, like that distinguished scientist, profess absolute, unqualified agnosticism concerning God. But there is an agnostic Zeitgeist which influences many men who have not reached that extreme position. And so we have to reckon with a modified, partial agnosticism, professed not by unbelieving men of science, or by skeptical philosophers, but by religious men or theologians, and consisting in a severe restriction of the knowledge of God attainable by man. It has its ultimate unconscious source in the spirit of the time, and its conscious grounds in philosophic theories of knowledge, in particular views as to the idea of religion, and in certain convictions cherished concerning the characteristics of the Bible and the proper use of the sacred literature. It is of this modified type of the modern phenomenon in question I mean to speak under the title of theological agnosticism. Its proper home is Germany, but sympathetic movements of thought are not lacking in English literature.
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The Humiliation of Christ no change -- has been made on the work as it appeared in the two previous editions. But it has occurred to me that it may be expected that I should take some notice of the views recently propounded in Keschs A graplia on the great Christological utterance of the Apostle Paul in Philippians ii. 511. I therefore offer here some remarks thereon, by way of preface. The views I refer to occur in an excursus on the Syrian Baptismal Liturgy of Severus, in connection with a group of apocryphal sayings concerning Christ sbaptism (A grapha, A pokryphon 5, pp. 357-372). To this Liturgy Kesch attaches considerable importance, as, although of late date (sixth century) and containing apocryphal elements, also preserving some fragments of the original evangelic tradition, as embodied in the Urevangelium, the Logia of Matthew, the no longer existing source of much of the material preserved in the Synoptical Gospels. A mong the genuine elements he reckons certain words ascribed to the Baptist in the narrative of the baptism of Jesus given in the Liturgy. In the Latin version by the editor of the Liturgy (F abricius Boderianus, Antwerp 1572) the passage is as follows: At ille dixit: Fieri non potest ut rapinam assumam, expressing the reluctance of the Baptist to administer the rite to Jesus. The important word, it will be seen at once, is rapinam. It recalls the dp7ra yp,6v of Phil. ii. 6. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the ag
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Alexander Balmain Bruce was born at Aberargie near Perth, Scotland on the 31st of January 1831.
His father suffered for his adherence to the Free Church at the Disruption in 1843, and removed to Edinburgh, where the son was educated, showing exceptional ability from the first. His early religious doubts, awakened especially by Strauss's Life of Jesus, made him throughout life sympathetic with those who underwent a similar stress. Bruce entered Edinburgh University in 1845 and the divinity hall of the Free Church of Scotland in 1849.
After serving as assistant first at Ancrum, then at Lochwinnoch, he was called to Cardross in Dumbartonshire in 1859, and to Broughty Ferry in 1868. There he published his first considerable exegetical work, the Training of the Twelve. In 1874 he delivered his Cunningham Lectures, afterwards published as The Humiliation of Christ, and in the following year was appointed to the chair of Apologetics and New Testament exegesis at the Free Church College, Glasgow. This post he held for twenty-four years. The character and work of Christ were, he held, the ultimate proof and the best defence of Christianity; and his tendency was to concentrate attention somewhat narrowly on the historic Jesus. In The Kingdom of God (1889), which first encountered serious hostile criticism in his own communion, he accounted for some of the differences between the first and third evangelists on the principle of accommodation—maintaining that Luke had altered both the text and the spirit of his sources to suit the needs of those for whom he wrote. It was held that these admissions were not consistent with the views of inspiration professed by the Free Church. When the case was tried, the assembly held that the charge of heresy was based on a misunderstanding, but that "by want of due care in his mode of statement he had given some ground for the painful impressions which had existed. "
Bruce rendered signal service to his own communion in connexion with its service of praise. He was convener of the committee which issued the Free Church hymn book, and he threw into this work the same energy and catholicity of mind which marked the rest of his activities.
He died on the 7th of August 1899, and was buried at Broughty Ferry.
His chief works, beside the above, are: The Chief End of Revelation (Lond. , 1881); The Parabolic Teaching of Christ (Lond. , 1882); F. C. Baur and his Theory of the Origin of Christianity and of the New Testament Writings in "Present Day Tracts" (Lond. , 1885); Apologetics, or Christianity Defensively Stated (Edin. , 1892); St Paul's Conception of Christianity (Lond. , 1894); Expos. Gk. Test. (the Synoptic Gospels, Lond. , 1897); With Open Face (Lond. , 1896); The Epistle to the Hebrews (Edin. , 1899); The Providential Order of the World, and the Moral Order of the World in Ancient and Modern Thought (Gifford Lectures, 1896–1897; Lond. , 1897, 1899).
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He married in 1860 Jane Hunter. Their son David was a Glasgow writer, partner in the firm of Mitchell & Bruce, and their daughter was married to Milward Valentine of Manchester and New York.