Title: Jesus, the Messiah; the synoptic tradition of the revelation of God in Christ: with special reference to form-criticism,
Authors: Manson, William, 1882-1958.
Publisher: The Westminster press
Year: 1946
Subjects: Jesus Christ Messiahship.; Jesus Christ Teachings.; Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible. Theology.
Contents: 1. The primitive Christian confession -- Complexity of the synoptic data -- The Messianic confession the presupposition of the church's tradition -- The self-disclosure of Jesus as the Messiah -- The historical life of Jesus and revelation -- Jesus and the last things -- Christology and comparative religion -- 2. Form-criticism and the gospels -- The early oral tradition in the Christian community -- Literary criticism and the oral tradition -- The theoretical presuppositions of form-criticism -- Has the tradition lost contact with history? An examination of Mark xi. 20-23 and Matthew v. 39-40 -- 3. The "signs" or "mighty works" of Jesus -- Evidence of the primitive discourses in Acts -- St. Mark a gospel of the signs of Jesus -- Paradigms or pronouncement-stories in the tradition -- Miracle-stories and their significance -- The parables of Jesus as signs -- The signs of Jesus and the kingdom of God