Table of Contents.
THE PERSON OF CHRIST.
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INTRODUCTORY 9
THE CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF JESUS 23
HIS TRAINING 34
HIS PUBLIC LIFE 42
HIS FREEDOM FROM SIN 51
HIS ABSOLUTE HOLINESS 65
UNITY OF VIRTUE AND PIETY 72

COMPLETENESS AND UNIVERSALITY OF HIS CHARACTER
76

HARMONY OF ALL GRACES AND VIRTUES
84

HIS PASSION AND CRUCIFIXION
90

SUMMARY: CHRIST'S CHARACTER THE GREATEST MORAL MIRACLE OF HISTORY 104

CHRIST'S OWN TESTIMONY CONCERNING HIMSELF
113

EXAMINATION OF THE FALSE THEORIES
129

I. THE UNITARIAN TIEORY
131

II. THE HYPOTHESIS OF IMPOSTURE: REIMARUS
135

III. THE THEORY OF ENTHUSIASM 0R SELF-DECEPTION
138

IV. THE RATIONALISTIC EXPLANATION: PAULUS
143

V. TIlE THEORY OF POETICAL FICTION
149

A. THE MYTHICAL HYPOTHESIS OF STRAUSS
151

B. THE LEGENDARY HYPOTHESIS OF RENAN.
176

CONCLUSION
187

CRITICAL NOTES
197
COLLECTION OF TESTIMONIES OF UNBELIEVERS.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
251

PONTIUS PILATE AND HIS WIFE
257

THE CENTURION AT THE CROSS
259

JUDAS THE TRAITOR
260

FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS
261

THE TALMUD
265

THE HEATHEN WRITERS AGAINST CHRISTIANITY
269

TACITUS AND PLINY
270

CELSUS AND LUCIAN
272

PORPHYRY
275

JULIAN THE APOSTATE
278

THOMAS CHUBB
282

DENIS DIDEROT
283

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
286

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
297

WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
336

DAVID FREDERICK STRAUSS
340

THEODORE PARKER
341

F. PECAUT
346

E. RENAN
348

FRANCES POWER COBBE
355

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