Category: Philosophy & Ethics
Miracles the vital point in the investigation--Their modification to suit scientific theologians--Antecedent credibility--Miracles not super-Satanic--Profane oaths--Counterfeits--Christianity misrepresented--J. S. Mill--Appeal to reason--The Fourth Gospel ignored--Intellectual...
Our author says of Basilides, "He was founder of a system of Gnosticism, who lived at Alexandria about the year 125. With the exception of a very few brief fragments, none of hi...
11. CHAPTER II.The argument based on the investigation which is carried on in the seven hundred pages of the second and third parts of our author's work, is chiefly the negative one from "sile...
9. CHAPTER I.In the first part of the work the following topics are discussed by the author:--"Miracles in relation to Christianity and the order of nature--Reason in relation to the order o...
17. CHAPTER V.The evidence that to John the Apostle is to be ascribed the Fourth Gospel, is worthy of the best attention we can bestow upon it. After that apostle had been dead half a century...
13. CHAPTER III.Next our author examines quotations in "the Epistles of Ignatius," though he says they really appertain to a very much later period, for they are "all pronounced, by a _large ma...
18. CHAPTER VI.We now come to the question of contemporary evidence. Our author says the testimony of the New Testament in favour of the miraculous is inadequate because it is not contemporary...
20. CHAPTER VII."In surrendering its miraculous element and its claims to supernatural origin, therefore, _the religion of Jesus_ does not lose its virtue, or the qualities which have made it a...
7. CHAPTER VII.An eloquent sentence analysed--Henry Rogers--John Stuart Mill-- Priestley--Paul's admonition to Timothy--The death of apostles not recorded in writings alleged to have been writ...
2. CHAPTER II.The argument from the silence of early writers--Limits of the inquiry--Quotations from unknown sources and tradition--The summary of what the author of "Supernatural Religion" a...
4. CHAPTER IV.Basilides--The Gospel to the Hebrews--Special pleading in regard to Hippolytus and the pronouns HE and THEY--Coincidence resorted to--Events HAPPEN to occur as predicted--Valent...
5. CHAPTER V.The evidence of Irenæus--Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians genuine--"The Refutation of all Heresies" by Hippolytus--Justin Martyr--The internal evidence--Philo's philosophy...
1. CHAPTER I.Miracles the vital point in the investigation--Their modification to suit scientific theologians--Antecedent credibility--Miracles not super-Satanic--Profane oaths--Counterfeits...
3. CHAPTER III.The Epistles of Ignatius--One Version allowed to be genuine--The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians: its acceptance as genuine by Irenæus--Hegesippus--Fragments only preserv...
6. CHAPTER VI.The Apostle John the author of the Apocalypse--Importance of the admission--The precise date of its composition--Its allegorical character--"Pilgrim's Progress" and "Paradise Lo...
16. CHAPTER V._"The doctrine of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is the fundamental doctrine of Christianity. Without it Christianity, as a theological and as a philosophical system, cannot r...
19. CHAPTER VII.12. CHAPTER III._"I cannot dispense with miracles as historical explanations of certain indubitable historical facts. I do not find that they make rents in history, but by their aid alone am I...
10. CHAPTER II._"I consider the Gospels decidedly genuine, for they are penetrated by the reflection of a majesty which proceeded from the Person of Christ; and this is Divine, if ever Divinit...
8. CHAPTER I.14. CHAPTER IV.