The aim of Jesus Christ
Subtitle: a critical inquiry for the general reader
By: by William Forbes Cooley
Publisher: The Macmillan Co.
Published: 1925
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Table of contents: title: I. Nature of the inquiry; title: 1. Its difficulties; title: 2. Its principles; title: 3. Its sources; title: II. Who was Jesus?; title: 1. A popular healer; title: 2. A teacher; title: 3. A Messianic claimant; title: 4. Not an avowed world-Savior; title: III. What did Jesus teach?; title: 1. General character of his teaching; title: 2. Sources of his teaching; title: 3. Analysis of his teaching; title: 4. The fatherhood of God; title: 5. The kingdom of God; title: IV. Jewish view of the kingdom; title: 1. Origin of the "kingdom" idea; title: 2. Its content; title: 3. The place and time; title: 4. The kingdom's appeal to the masses; title: V. Jesus' view of the kingdom; title: 1. Agreements with the prophetic view; title: 2. The two kingdoms theory; title: 3. Argument from non-earthly concomitants; title: 4. References to the kingdom as "inner"; title: 5. The evolutionary kingdom sayings; title: 6. The spiritual view theological, not historical; title: VI. Kingdom significance of his life; title: 1. Significance of his works of healing; title: 2. Why the triumphal entry?; title: VII. Kingdom significance of his death; title: 1. Why did Jesus die?; title: 2. The answer suggested by the gospels; title: 3. The theological answers; title: 4. The Last Supper; title: VIII. Jesus' kingdom ideal; title: 1. Its genesis; title: 2. Nature of its appeal; title: 3. Character of Jesus' ethics; title: 4. Dynamic factors of the kingdom; title: 5. Jesus' egoistic doctrine; title: 6. Jesus not a collectivist; title: 7. The rigorous side of the gospel; title: 8. The motives of Jesus; title: IX. The kingdom of this world; title: 1. Origin of moral dualism; title: 2. The lure of gain; title: 3. Good and evil as actual world-forces; title: 4. Why evil is a kingdom; title: 5. The evil of mammon; title: X. The apostles and the kingdom; title: 1. The traditional view unjustified; title: 2. St. Paul a Messianist; title: XI. The hellenizing of the gospel; title: 1. View-point of the Apostle's Creed; title: 2. Causes of the changed views; title: 3. St. Paul's atonement teaching; title: 4. Hellenistic philosophical sources of redemption; title: 5. Hellenistic religious sources; title: 6. Hellenistic ideas in the New Testament; title: XII. Origin of the Christian religion; title: 1. Reception of the gospel by the world; title: 2. Jesus not the founder of the church; title: 3. Distinctive feature of Christianity; title: 4. Origin of the Christ-fealty; title: XIII. Can a modernist be a Christian?; title: 1. The errors in Jesus' Messianism natural; title: 2. The historic continuity of Christianity; title: 3. The reality of the unseen; title: 4. Bases of religion; title: XIV. The neglected Eucharist; title: 1. Need of return to the historical Christ; title: 2. Opposing views; title: 3. Need of adequate organization for progress; title: 4. "Follow Me."