Chapter I. Christology, Or The Redemption Wrought By Christ.

Section I.—Historical Preparation For Redemption. I. Negative Preparation,—in the history of the heathen world. II. Positive Preparation,—in the history of Israel. Section II.—The Person Of Christ. I. Historical Survey of Views Respecting the Person of Christ. II. The two Natures of Christ,—their Reality and Integrity. 1. The Humanity of Christ. 2. The Deity of Christ. III. The Union of the two Natures in one Person. 1. Proof of this Union. 2. Modern misrepresentations of this Union. 3. The real nature of this Union. Section III.—The Two States Of Christ. I. The State of Humiliation. 1. The nature of this humiliation. 2. The stages of Christ’s humiliation. II. The State of Exaltation. 1. The nature of this exaltation. 2. The stages of Christ’s exaltation. Section IV.—The Offices Of Christ. I. The Prophetic Office of Christ. 1. The nature of Christ’s prophetic work. 2. The stages of Christ’s prophetic work. II. The Priestly Office of Christ. 1. Christ’s Sacrificial Work, or the Doctrine of the Atonement. A. Scripture Methods of Representing the Atonement. B. The Institution of Sacrifice, more especially as found in the Mosaic system. C. Theories of the Atonement. 1st. The Socinian, or Example Theory of the Atonement. 2nd. The Bushnellian, or Moral Influence Theory of the Atonement. 3d. The Grotian, or Governmental Theory of the Atonement. 4th. The Irvingian Theory, or Theory of Gradually Extirpated Depravity. 5th. The Anselmic, or Commercial Theory of the Atonement. 6th. The Ethical Theory of the Atonement. D. Objections to the Ethical Theory of the Atonement. E. The Extent of the Atonement. 2. Christ’s Intercessory Work. III. The Kingly Office of Christ.

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Christo Deo Salvatori.

“THE EYE SEES ONLY THAT WHICH IT BRINGS WITH IT THE POWER OF SEEING.”—_Cicero._

“OPEN THOU MINE EYES, THAT I MAY BEHOLD WONDROUS THINGS OUT OF THY LAW.”—_Psalm 119:18._

“FOR WITH THEE IS THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE: IN THY LIGHT SHALL WE SEE LIGHT.”—_Psalm 36:9._

“FOR WE KNOW IN PART, AND WE PROPHESY IN PART; BUT WHEN THAT WHICH IS PERFECT IS COME, THAT WHICH IS IN PART SHALL BE DONE AWAY.”—_1 Cor. 13:9, 10._