CHAPTER I

WHAT IS THE CHRISTIAN FAITH?

Need of a definition 15

I. The Christianity of the New Testament Writers 16 Their emphasis upon the Passion and Resurrection 16 Their emphasis upon the Person of Christ 20

II. Primitive Christianity and Pauline Christianity 21 Was Paul the Founder of Christianity? 21 Lines of connection between Paul and the Primitive Apostles 22

III. The Christianity of Jesus and of Paul 26 Harmony in their Ethical Teaching and in their blending of Doctrine with Ethics 27 The Christological passage, Matthew xi. 25-30: its exegesis and its alleged isolation 35 The Passion narrative in Mark: views of Bousset 41 Self-authenticating contrasts in the Character of Christ 43

IV. The Dilemma of Historical Criticism 44 Jesus as viewed by the Liberal and the Radical Schools 44 The Dilemma of Liberal Criticism 45 Lessening Significance of a merely human Jesus 49 Harnack and von Dobschütz on the "Double Gospel" 53 The Essence of Christianity 54