Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

the American Revised Version? Will not this
explain the peculiar acceptability of the American
Revised Version to those who lean toward
advanced and liberal theology?
Cardinal Newman and Dr. Schaff drank their
inspiration from the same fountain, -- from the
higher critical theology of Germany, -- at the same
time both pagan and papal. As to the results of
Newman’s life and the Oxford Movement, let a
quarterly Review testify:
“He (Newman) had left the leprosy of Popery
cleaving to the very walls of Oxford, to infect the
youth of England, through an unknown
future.”[29]
As to the effect of Dr. Schaff, the Mercersburg
theology, and his doctrines, let the same witness
testify again:
“Our examination has extended only to a little
beyond the middle of Dr. Schaff’s work (i.e. his
History of the Apostolic Church). But the positions
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