The New Specialty of Biblical Theology
By Editor
IN the last Pacific, Geo. F. Magoun, of Grinnell, Iowa, endeavors to stir up the Congregationalists of California in regard to their theological seminary in Oakland. In the course of his article he says:— "Professorships of ecclesiastical history, of New Testament Greek, of elocution, of the relations of philosophy and science to religion—and no seminary is complete now without these, to say nothing of the new specialty of Biblical theology—cannot be added without new endowments." That "new specialty of Biblical theology" is what we are interested in. We have for a long time noticed something wrong about the popular theology, but we expect to see a great improvement, now that the Bible is to be studied in theological seminaries. We believe the new specialty has not yet been adopted in any of the theological schools on this coast.