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The pastoral practice of K.H. Miskotte as a minister in Kortgene (Zealand) 1921-1925 has been well researched, but his position on the field of academical theology during those years has been less studied. This position can be analysed based on the critical remarks he made in his contributions to the comprehensive bibliography of J.H. Gunning Jr., as edited by Gunning’s son. The present article discusses the following critical points: (1) Gunning’s excessive glorification of the Old Testament, (2) his ignorance of the contribution of the ‘Religionsgeschichtliche Schule’ to the knowledge of the context of the New Testament, (3) his neglecting the Neo-Kantian epistemological criticism as well as (4) the consequences of distinguishing ontological judgments and judgments of value, (5) his unclearness concerning the foundation of his theological ethics, (6) his uncertainty in assessing the relationship of faith and history and (7) his conservative conclusions from his, as such interesting, thinking about the relationship of particularity and universality. The article ends with a localization of these issues in history of theology, and especially the issue of the appreciation of the theology of A. Ritschl by Gunning and Miskotte.