Table of Contents

Title Page

Editor's Preface

Author's Preface

FIRST BOOK.

THE INTRODUCTION.

PART I. — THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS OF THE GOSPEL HISTORY.

Section 1. The Incarnation of God,

Section 2. The Personality of Man,

Section 3. Organism in the Province of Personal Human Life,

Section 4. The Fulness of the Time,

Section 5. The Ideality of the Gospel History,

Section 6. The Effect of the Ideal History: The Sacred Remembrance,

PART II. — THE MORE GENERAL RECORDS OF THE LIFE OF THE LORD JESUS.

Section 1. General Survey,

Section 2. The New Testament,

Section 3. The Old Testament,

Section 4. The Theocracy, especially the Christian Church,

Section 5. The Spiritual Life of Mankind,

PART III. — THE HISTORIC RECORDS OF THE LIFE OF JESUS.

Section 1. The Phenomenon of the Four Gospels,

Section 2. The Four Gospels as Records of the Life of Christ,

PART IV. — CRITICISM OF THE TESTIMONIES TO THE GOSPEL HISTORY.

Section 1. General Survey,

Section 2. The Gospel History as Criticism,

Section 3. Antagonistic Criticism in general,

Section 4. Antagonistic Criticism in its Subordinate Principles and Aspects,

Section 5. Antagonistic Criticism in its Dialectic Dealings,

Section 6. Antagonistic Criticism, in its intermixture of Contradictory Assumptions and Opposite Modes of Treatment,

Section 7. The Christian Theological Criticism of the Gospel Narratives,

PART V. — THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE FOUR GOSPELS.

Section 1. The Ecclesiastical Corroboration of the Four Gospels in general,

Section 2. The Authenticity of the First Gospel,

Section 3. The Authenticity of the Second Gospel,

Section 4. The Authenticity of the Third Gospel,

Section 5. The Authenticity of the Fourth Gospel,

PART VI. — THE ORIGIN OF THE FOUR GOSPELS.

Section 1. Various Views of the Origin of the Four Gospels,

Section 2. The Origin of the Gospels in general,

Section 3. Origin of the Gospels in particular,

PART VII. — THE RELATION OF THE FOUR GOSPELS TO THE GOSPEL HISTORY.

Section 1. An Attempt to exhibit the Gospel History in its Unity,

Section 2. The Gospel History in the Organic Fourfold Development of its Fulness,

SECOND BOOK.

THE HISTORICAL DELINEATION OF THE LIFE OF JESUS.

PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION.

Section 1. The Principal Chronological Periods ascertained,

Section 2. The Periods of Christ's Life,

PART I. — THE HISTORICAL SPHERE OF CHRIST'S LIFE.

Section 1. The Relations of Time and Place among which Christ appeared,

Section 2. The Scene of Christ's Life, the Promised Land,

PART II. — THE HISTORY OF THE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF THE LORD JESUS.

Section 1. Preliminary Remarks,

Section 2. The Angel Gabriel,

Section 3. Zacharias,

Section 4. The Virgin Mary,

Section 5. Mary and Elisabeth,

Section 6. The Birth of Jesus at Bethlehem,

Section 7. The First Homage, or the Shepherds and the Wise Men,

Section 8. The Flight into Egypt,

Section 9. The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple,

Section 10. The Settlement in Nazareth,

Section 11. The Fulfilments,

Section 12. The Development of Jesus,

Section 13. The Family Relations of Jesus,

PART III. — THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CHARACTER OF CHRIST'S PUBLIC MINISTRY.

Section l. Determination of the Dates,

Section 2. John the Baptist,

Section 3. The Participation of Jesus in the Baptism of John,

Section 4. The Manifestation of the Messiah to the People of Israel,

Section 5. The God-man,

Section 6. The Tempter,

Section 7. The Spiritual Rest and Spiritual Labour of Christ in the Wilderness the Temptation,

Section 8. The Plan of Jesus,

Section 9. The Miracles of Jesus,

Section 10. The Teachings of Christ, especially the Parables,

Section 11. The Kingdom of God,