The Life Of Lives: Further Studies In The Life Of Christ
1900
The Life Of Lives: Further Studies In The Life Of Christ
Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903
1900
CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE DIVINE BIRTH. Belief of the Best, Wisest, and Greatest of Men in Divine Providence — Miracles the Outcome of a Natural Law — The Birth of Christ and the Destinies of Mankind — Testimony to Him of History, of - Poetry, of Philosophy, of Art, of Science, of Philanthropy — The Witness of the Human Heart I CHAPTER II. THE UNIQUE SUPREMACY OF JESUS. His Sinlessness — His Superiority to Sakya Muni, to Confucius, to Mohammed, to the Best and Greatest of the Greeks and Romans 24 CHAPTER III. THE UNIQUE SUPREMACY OF JESUS (continued). His Unapproachable Superiority to the Saints and Prophets of the Old Dispensation and to the Best of the Rabbis — His Infinite Supremacy compared with the Saints of Christendom CHAPTER IV. THE TESTIMONY OF SCEPTICS AND FREE INQUIRERS. Utterances of Spinoza, Leasing, Rousseau, Voltaire, Kant, Schelling, Strauss, Goethe, Channing, Renan, J. S. Mill, Keim, Theodore Parker, Dr. Congreve, Dr. Martineau, Matthew Arnold, and the author of Supernatural Religion 55 CHAPTER V. THE GOSPELS. The Substantial Truth of the Gospels Vindicated by Modern Criticism — The Synoptiflte — The Fourth Gospel— Contrast between the Genuine and the Apocryphal Gospels 61 CHAPTER VI. THE CLAIMS OF JESUS AND THE SPELL HE EXERCISED. His Sinlessness not a Miraculous but an Achieved Sinlessness — The Witnesses to it — His Seven "I Ams" — Other Declarations Concerning Himself — The Validity of His Words and Promises abundantly justified 72 CHAPTER VII. THE HUMAN EDUCATION OF JESUS. The Silence of Mary as to His Childhood — St. Luke's the one reference in the Gospels to His Infancy — How Jewish Boys at that Day were Trained — The Probability that Christ spoke both Aramaic and Greek — Teaching Children the Mosaic and Levitic Law — Attendance at School and Synagogue — Simplicity of the Worship of the Synagogue SM CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST ANECDOTE. Jesus Goes with His Parents to Jerusalem — The Journey — The First Sight of Jerusalem and of the Temple — What H
