Title: The gospel of the Resurrection : thoughts on its relation to reason and history /
Authors: Westcott, Brooke Foss, 1825-1901.
Publisher: Macmillan,
Year: 1867
Subjects: Jesus Christ Resurrection.; Resurrection.
Contents: I. Statement of the question -- A. The resurrection as the central truth of Christianity, either true or false: no mean -- 1. Morally a revelation -- 2. Historically a fact -- Uniting the objective and subjective elements of religion -- A religion of the world necessarily historical -- The history essentially moral -- B. Preliminary questions -- II. Introduction: Ideas of God, nature, miracles -- A. The difficulties of Christianity essentially included in common life -- 1. The resurrection a new fact and not an explanation of mysteries essentially insoluble by us, which are reducible to the final antithesis of finite and infinite -- a. Christianity assumes the existence of: an infinite personal God, a finite human will -- Explanation of terms -- Hence we gain some conception of: Nature in relation to God; Laws of Nature: simply laws of human observation which include the operation of an unknown force and cannot therefore be absolute -- Indeterminate powers in nature -- b. Christianity claims to be miraculous -- The idea of a miracle: a miracle not impossible nor unnatural -- What natural explanations must be avoided: In relation to God, in relation to man -- Why a scientific age is incredulous of miracles -- Instinct is not conquered by science -- Miraculous records not antecedently incredible -- III. The resurrection and history -- A. Christianity claims to restore harmony to all creation -- 1. A historical progress observable in the physical and moral worlds -- with which Christianity is intimately connected, according to the teaching of the Apostles, whether the advance was realized among the Jews or Gentiles -- And Christianity itself is a history, and has been developed historically -- In this lies its distinguishing characteristic, which centers in faith in the person of Christ -- If therefore the circumstances of its origin were unique, so also may have been the phenomena which it included