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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. THE BIBLICAL WORLD THE BIBLICAL WORLD true, or the old church doctrine must be accepted. The problem of Christ concerns the relation of God and the world. No more satisfactory is his kenotic theory of the incarnation. Dr. Forrest assures us that the sacrifice of Christ is not in his self-denying life and suffering death, but in the fact of the incarnation, in the limitations of humanity itself. But if he accepted all those limitations and comes entirely under the category of the human, this is not a sacrifice of the historical Jesus we know, and it is not he who saves. For such limitations would involve ignorance of that sacrifice, and the cord of memory between the two existences must be absolutely cut; that is, the human Jesus is a distinct personality. Or, if there is in his consciousness the knowledge of his pre-existent state and glory and power, and of his mission as viewed by the pre-existent Son of God, then we have an element in his consciousness that makes an actual interpretation of him impossible and leads to the early heresy of docetism. This book is reverent and conservative. It concedes considerable to modern criticism, and will probably be read with profit by a section of the church whose orthodoxy would preclude a more thorough discussion. But it has no new message, it makes no real addition to biblical or dogmatic theology, and I doubt if it proves of great value to the scholarly world.