In this definition may plainly be discerned the influence of Schleiermacher’s theology of feeling, but for our present purpose it may be accepted as approximately correct. Now theology is first of all science, knowledge. “Theology,” says Dr. Knapp, “is the knowledge of God carried to the highest degree of perfection in respect to correctness, clearness, and evidence of which it is susceptible in this world; and a theologian or divine is one who not only understands himself the doctrines of religion,