The gospel records
Subtitle: their genuineness, authenticity, historic verity, and inspiration, with some preliminary remarks on the Gospel history
By: by William Nast
Publisher: Hitchcock and Walden; Nelson and Phillips
Published: 1866
Place of publication: Cincinnati; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Introductions; Bible
Table of contents: title: Part I. The genuineness or integrity of the sacred text; title: 1. Introductory remarks; title: Chapter I. The history of the text; title: 2. The change of the original text with regard to its outward appearance; title: 3. Some general remarks on the existing manuscripts of the New Testament; title: 4. A consideration of the variety of readings presented by the manuscripts of the New Testament; title: Chapter II. The impossibility of success in an essential mutilation or corruption of the gospel record; title: 5. Argument from the agreement of the respective copies of the four gospels; title: 6. Arguments drawn from other considerations; title: Part II. The authenticity of the gospel records; title: 7. Introductory remarks; title: Chapter I. The outward historical testimonies; title: 8. The testimony of the apostolic fathers; title: 9. The testimony of the fathers in the sub-apostolic age, from A.D. 120-170; title: 10. The formation of a canon of the universally-acknowledged books of the new testament at the close of the second century; title: 11. The early versions of the new testament; title: 12. The testimony of heretical and apocryphal writings; title: 13. The testimony of heathen adversaries; title: Chapters II. The internal evidences; title: 14. The peculiar dialect of Greek in which the evangelists have written; title: 15. Some other characteristics of the style in which the gospels are written; title: 16. The frequent allusions of the evangelists to the history of their times; title: 17. The relation of the four gospels to each other and to the acts of the apostles; title: 18. The authenticity of the gospels-a postulate of reason, as it alone accounts for the existence of the Christian church, and for some of Paul's epistles, whose authenticity is universally admitted; title: 19. The absurdity of the mythical theory; title: Part III. The historic verity of the gospel records; title: 20. Introductory Remarks; title: Chapter I. A consideration of the objections that have been raised against the credibility of the evangelists; title: 21. The alleged discrepancies or contradictions in the four gospels; title: 22. The assumption that miracles are impossible and unsusceptible of proof; title: 23. The alleged lack of sufficient testimony by profane writers; title: Chapter II. The credibility of the evangelists; title: 24. The evangelist were in a condition to inform themselves accurately and thoroughly concerning the things which they record; title: 25. The evangelists exhibit in their narratives no symptoms of mental derangement which might have made them victims of delusion; title: 26. The evangelists cannot be charges with having had any motive or design to impose upon the world a report of what, if it did not take place, they must have known to be false; title: Chapter III. The divine seal stamped upon the gospel history by its subject -the person of Jesus Christ; title: 27. The verity of the gospel history best accredited by the personality of Jesus Christ; title: 28. The admitted outer conditions of the life of Jesus-leaving its astounding results, as well as the unlimited scope of the mind of Jesus and the perfect symmetry of his character, utterly inexplicable, without the admission of a supernatural and divine element; title: 29. The sinlessness of Jesus-the idea of which could not have been conceived by the evangelists in they had not seen it actualized in his life-incontestably proving that he was not a mere man; title: 30. The miracles wrought on and performed by Jesus, the natural and necessary outflow of his historically-proved personality, and, at the same time, the ground and warrant of all other true miracles preceding and succeeding his appearance on earth; title: Part IV. The Attacks of modern criticism on the inspiration of the first three gospels; title: 31. The relation which the authenticity and credibility of the gospel records bear to their inspiration; title: 32. The peculiar agreement and disagreement of the first three evangelists in their narratives, and the various explanations of this singular phenomenon; title: 33. A consideration of the inspired character of the synoptical gospels on the ground of their being chiefly the result of the oral teaching of the apostles; title: Part V. Remarks on the gospel history; title: 34. The condition of the world, Jewish, Greek, and roman, at the advent of Christ; title: 35. The chronology and harmony of the gospel narratives; title: A. The date of the birth of Christ; title: B. The duration of our Lord's ministry, and the date of his death.