The character of Jesus
Subtitle: forbidding his possible classification with men
By: by Horace Bushnell
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 1917
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Divinity
Notes: "The tenth chapter of his treatise 'Nature and the supernatural.' "--Publisher's advertisement, p. [3]
Table of contents: title: We assume nothing reported of him to be true; title: The only character that has a perfect youth; title: The picture stands by itself; title: The absurd pictures given of infant prodigies; title: Jesus the only great character that holds a footing of innocence; title: The only religious character that disowns repentance; title: He unites characters difficult to be united; title: The astonishing pretensions of Jesus; title: His pretensions enter also into his actions; title: Nobody offended by these pretensions; title: What mere man could support such pretensions?; title: Peculiar in the passive virtues; title: Does not falter n the common trials of existence; title: His passion, no mere human martyrdom; title: His agony misplaced, taken as being only a man's; title: It is, humanly speaking, excessive; title: The pathology is divine; title: His defense before Pilate, all that could be made; title: He undertakes what is humanly impossible; title: he assumes to set up the kingdom of God among men; title: His plan covers ages of time; title: Such attempts not human; title: He takes rank with the humblest orders of society; title: No great social architect ever saw the wisdom of it; title: And still he raises no partisan felling; title: No human leader in this; title: Original and independent as no man is; title: Teaches by no human method; title: Warped by no desire to gain assent; title: Comprehensive, under no human conditions; title: Could not hold a one-sided view; title: Clear of all current superstitions; title: But no liberalist; title: His simplicity is perfect; title: Shining as pure light; title: Adequately teaches God even to the humble; title: This morality is not artistic; title: But intuitive and original; title: Never anxious for success; title: Raised and made sacred by familiarity; title: Our experience of men reversed in him; title: Recapitulation; title: Did such a being actually exist; title: Was he a sinless character; title: Mr. Parker's estimate of him; title: Mr. Hennel's estimate; title: Faults charged; title: Faults supposed and intimated; title: His invective against the Pharisees; title: Milton's right of invective; title: The fact of his miracles inferred; title: His errand is order itself; title: The mythical hypothesis impossible; title: Their successes Mr. Parker concedes; title: The miracles are in place in a gospel; title: Miracles rejected, so is Jesus the grand miracle; title: Jesus himself is sufficient evidence.