John the Baptist
Subtitle: the essential facts about John the Baptist's life, work, and thought, and the impact he made upon his contemporaries and later generations
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 1951
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
Copyright date: 1951
Subjects: John, the Baptist, Saint.
Notes: Subtitle from jacket.
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [189]-210)
"I was invited to deliver the Haskell Lectures at the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology in 1946 ... The lectures are published substantially as delivered, with only such notes as seemed absolutely necessary." - Foreword.
Table of contents: title: John the Baptist and the wilderness; title: John's preaching : the proclamation; title: John's preaching : the exhortation; title: John's rite of baptism; title: John the Baptist and Jesus; title: The later history of the Baptist movement