Category: History - Religious

The Historical Evidence for the Virgin Birth

Third Gospels I. St. Paul II. Q III. St. Mark’s Gospel IV. Acts V. The Epistle to the Hebrews VI. The Fourth Gospel VII. The Pastoral and the Catholic Epistles and the Apocalypse VIII. Summary

Chapters

12. CHAPTER VI. THE HISTORICAL QUESTION: ITS LIMITS AND BEARINGS

Our purpose in the final chapter is to co‐ordinate the results we have reached, and to discuss their bearing upon the historical question of the Virgin Birth. We have also to de...

8. CHAPTER II. THE VIRGIN BIRTH AND THE THIRD GOSPEL

The question to be discussed in this chapter needs careful definition. What we wish to discover, if possible, is whether the Virgin Birth is an original element in the Third Gos...

11. CHAPTER V. THE VIRGIN BIRTH AND THE FIRST GOSPEL

More than the other Synoptic Gospels, the First Gospel comes before us as an “official” document of the Christian Church. Our Third Gospel was somewhat of the nature of a “priva...

9. CHAPTER III. ST. LUKE AND THE VIRGIN BIRTH

While, in the preceding chapter, we concluded that the Virgin Birth is a later stratum in the Third Gospel, we were unable to say to whose hand its presence is due. There was no...

7. CHAPTER I. THE VIRGIN BIRTH AND THE NEW TESTAMENT OUTSIDE THE FIRST AND

Outside the First and Third Gospels there is no direct reference to the Virgin Birth in the New Testament. There are passages which have been said to imply a knowledge of the do...

10. CHAPTER IV. THE PLACE OF THE VIRGIN BIRTH IN THE THIRD GOSPEL

In the present chapter we must formulate a theory which shall do justice to the results obtained in the last two chapters. We have argued that the Virgin Birth is not an origina...

6. Chapter VI. The Historical Question: Its Limits And Bearings

I. The Virgin Birth in the First and Third Gospels II. The Date of the Gospels in Relation to the Virgin Birth Tradition III. The Relation of the Question of the Historical Valu...

2. Chapter II. The Virgin Birth And The Third Gospel

I. Narratives and Passages Said to be Inconsistent With the View (a) Lk. iii. 22, according to the “Western Text” (b) The Lukan Genealogy and Lk. iii. 23 (c) The Narratives of L...

5. Chapter V. The Virgin Birth And The First Gospel

I. The Characteristics of the Genealogy II. The Genuineness of Mt. i, ii III. The Unity of Mt. i, ii 1. The Genealogy 2. The Passage Mt. i. 18‐25 IV. Implications, Sources, and...

1. Chapter I. The Virgin Birth And The New Testament Outside The First And

Third Gospels I. St. Paul II. Q III. St. Mark’s Gospel IV. Acts V. The Epistle to the Hebrews VI. The Fourth Gospel VII. The Pastoral and the Catholic Epistles and the Apocalyps...

4. Chapter IV. The Place Of The Virgin Birth In The Third Gospel

3. Chapter III. St. Luke and the Virgin Birth