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DISCIPLES His personality, and his genius for friendship
The disciples--the type he prefers Intimacy, the real secret of his
method His ways of speech His seriousness The transformation of the
disciples


CHAPTER V
THE TEACHING OF JESUS UPON GOD JESUS' OWN
GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS The Nearness of God God's knowledge and
power God's throne Jesus emphasizes mostly God's interest in the
individual--the love of God THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD The
discovery of God Parables of the treasure finder and the pearl merchant
Faith in God Prayer Life on the basis of God


CHAPTER VI
JESUS AND MAN Jesus' sympathy with men and their troubles His
feelings for the suffering and distressed His feeling for women and
children His emphasis on tenderness and forgiveness The
characteristics which he values in men The value of the individual soul
Jesus and the wasted life Zacchaeus. The woman with the alabaster box.
The penitent thief


CHAPTER VII
JESUS' TEACHING UPON SIN The problem of sin John the Baptist
on sin Jesus' psychology of sin more serious The outstanding types of
sin which, according to Jesus, involve for a man the utmost risk: (a)
Want of tenderness (b) The impure imagination (c) Indifference to truth
(d) Indecision Jesus' view of sin as deduced from this teaching

Implication of a serious view of redemption


CHAPTER VIII
THE CHOICE OF THE CROSS What the cross meant to him HIS
REFERENCES TO THE GOSPEL AND ITS RESULTS The kingdom
of heaven The call for followers His announcement of purpose in his
life and death What he means by redemption FACTORS IN HIS
CHOICE OF THE CROSS His sense of human need His realization of
God His recognition of his own relation to God His prayer life
VERIFICATION FROM THE EVENT The Resurrection The new life
of the disciples The taking away of the sin of the world
RE-EXAMINATION OF HIS CHOICE OF THE CROSS As it bears
on the problem of pain and of sin and on God How a man is to
understand Jesus Christ


CHAPTER IX
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE THE
ROMAN EMPIRE One rule of many races General peace and free
intercourse the world over Fusion of cultures, traditions, religions "The
marriage of East and West" THE OLD RELIGION (1) Its strength: in
its ancient tradition in its splendour of art, architecture and ceremony in
its oracles, healings and theophanies in its adaptability in absorbing all
cults and creeds (2) Its weakness: No deep sense of truth No
association with morality Polytheism The fear of the grave (3) Its
defence: Plutarch--the Stoics--Neo-Platonism--the Eclectics THE
VICTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH (1) Its characteristics (2)
Persecuted because it refused to compromise (3) The Christian
"out-lived" the pagan "out died" him "out-thought him"


CHAPTER X
JESUS IN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT The impulse to determine who he

is, and his relation to God The records of Christian experience The
Study of the personality of Jesus Christ (a) The Gospels (b)
Christological theory a guide to experience (c) The new experience of
the Reformation period Knowledge gained by the experiment comes
before explanation JESUS TO BE KNOWN BY WHAT HE DOES
The forgiveness of sin, and the theories to explain it Is a Theology of
Redemption possible which shall not be mainly metaphor or simile?
THE PROBLEM OF THE INCARNATION The approach is to be "a
posterioria" In fact, God and man are only known to us in and by Jesus
Only in Christ is the love of God as taught in N.T. tenable To know
Jesus in what he can do, is antecedent to theory about him
APPENDIX Suggestions for study circle discussions

THE JESUS OF HISTORY


CHAPTER I
THE STUDY OF THE GOSPELS
If one thing more than another marks modern thought, it is a new
insistence on fact. In every sphere of study there is a growing emphasis
on verification. Where a generation ago a case seemed to be closed,
to-day in the light of new facts it is reopened. Matters that to our
grandfathers were trivialities, to be summarily dismissed, are seriously
studied. Again and again we find the most fruitful avenues opened to us
by questions that another age might have laughed out of a hearing;
to-day they suggest investigation of facts insufficiently known, and of
the difficult connexions between them. In psychology and in medicine
the results of this new tendency are evident in all sorts of ways--new
methods in the treatment of the sick, new inquiries as to the origin of
diseases and the possibilities of their prevention, attempts to get at the
relations between the soul and body, and a very new open-mindedness
as to the spiritual nature and its working and experiences. In other
fields of learning it