to another pretty obvious feature of the Gospel materials, namely to their practical, church-centered character. Our Gospels are again seen to be books which gather up and perpetuate the “teaching” by which men of the church lived and died. But when one has recognized these legitimate concerns of the method and has appreciated these legitimate emphases, one has said about all that can positively be said for the method. In practice the emphasis of Form Criticism is all on the Christian community as