| INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESENT EDITION, | |
| PREFACE TO THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION. | |
| PREFACE TO THE FOURTH GERMAN EDITION. | |
| CONTENTS. | |
| INTRODUCTION. DEVELOPMENT OF THE MYTHICAL POINT OF VIEW IN RELATION TO THE GOSPEL HISTORIES. | |
| 1. | INEVITABLE RISE OF DIFFERENT MODES OF EXPLAINING SACRED HISTORIES. | |
| 2. | DIFFERENT EXPLANATIONS OF SACRED LEGENDS AMONG THE GREEKS. | |
| 3. | ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATIONS AMONG THE HEBREWS.—PHILO. | |
| 4. | ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATIONS AMONG THE CHRISTIANS.—ORIGEN. | |
| 5. | TRANSITION TO MORE MODERN TIMES.—DEISTS AND NATURALISTS OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES.—THE WOLFENBÜTTEL FRAGMENTIST. | |
| 6. | NATURAL MODE OF EXPLANATION ADOPTED BY THE RATIONALISTS.—EICHHORN.—PAULUS. | |
| 7. | MORAL INTERPRETATION OF KANT. | |
| 8. | RISE OF THE MYTHICAL MODE OF INTERPRETING THE SACRED HISTORY, IN REFERENCE FIRST TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. | |
| 9. | THE MYTHICAL MODE OF INTERPRETATION IN REFERENCE TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. | |
| 10. | THE NOTION OF THE MYTHUS IN ITS APPLICATION TO SACRED HISTORIES NOT CLEARLY APPREHENDED BY THEOLOGIANS. | |
| 11. | THE APPLICATION OF THE NOTION OF THE MYTHUS TOO CIRCUMSCRIBED. | |
| 12. | OPPOSITION TO THE MYTHICAL VIEW OF THE GOSPEL HISTORY. | |
| 13. | THE POSSIBILITY OF THE EXISTENCE OF MYTHI IN THE NEW TESTAMENT CONSIDERED IN REFERENCE TO THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCES. | |
| 14. | THE POSSIBILITY OF MYTHI IN THE NEW TESTAMENT CONSIDERED ON INTERNAL GROUNDS. | |
| 15. | DEFINITION OF THE EVANGELICAL MYTHUS AND ITS DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS. | |
| 16. | CRITERIA BY WHICH TO DISTINGUISH THE UNHISTORICAL IN THE GOSPEL NARRATIVE. | |
| HISTORY OF THE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS. | |
| JESUS, THE SON OF GOD. | |
| 64. | THE DIVINE MISSION AND AUTHORITY OF JESUS. HIS PRE-EXISTENCE. | |
| 65. | THE MESSIANIC PLAN OF JESUS. INDICATIONS OF A POLITICAL ELEMENT. | |
| 66. | DATA FOR THE PURE SPIRITUALITY OF THE MESSIANIC PLAN OF JESUS. BALANCE. | |
| 67. | THE RELATION OF JESUS TO THE MOSAIC LAW. | |
| 68. | SCOPE OF THE MESSIANIC PLAN OF JESUS. RELATION TO THE GENTILES. | |
| 69. | RELATION OF THE MESSIANIC PLAN OF JESUS TO THE SAMARITANS. HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA. | |
| V. | THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS. | |
| 70. | CALLING OF THE FIRST COMPANIONS OF JESUS. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FIRST TWO EVANGELISTS AND THE FOURTH. | |
| 71. | PETER’S DRAUGHT OF FISHES. | |
| 72. | CALLING OF MATTHEW. CONNEXION OF JESUS WITH THE PUBLICANS. | |
| 73. | THE TWELVE APOSTLES. | |
| 74. | THE TWELVE CONSIDERED INDIVIDUALLY. THE THREE OR FOUR MOST CONFIDENTIAL DISCIPLES OF JESUS. | |
| 75. | THE REST OF THE TWELVE, AND THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES. | |
| VI. | THE DISCOURSES OF JESUS IN THE THREE FIRST GOSPELS. | |
| 76. | THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. | |
| 77. | INSTRUCTIONS TO THE TWELVE. LAMENTATIONS OVER THE GALILEAN CITIES. JOY OVER THE CALLING OF THE SIMPLE. | |
| 78. | THE PARABLES. | |
| 79. | MISCELLANEOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND CONTROVERSIES OF JESUS. | |
| VII. | DISCOURSES OF JESUS IN THE FOURTH GOSPEL. | |
| 80. | CONVERSATION OF JESUS WITH NICODEMUS. | |
| 81. | THE DISCOURSES OF JESUS, JOHN V.–XII. | |
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| 132. | THE CRUCIFIXION. | |
| IV. | DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS. | |
| 133. | PRODIGIES ATTENDANT ON THE DEATH OF JESUS. | |
| 134. | THE WOUND BY A SPEAR IN THE SIDE OF JESUS. | |
| 135. | BURIAL OF JESUS. | |
| 136. | THE WATCH AT THE GRAVE OF JESUS. | |
| 137. | FIRST TIDINGS OF THE RESURRECTION. | |
| 138. | APPEARANCES OF THE RISEN JESUS IN GALILEE AND IN JUDEA, INCLUDING THOSE MENTIONED BY PAUL AND BY APOCRYPHAL WRITINGS. | |
| 139. | QUALITY OF THE BODY AND LIFE OF JESUS AFTER THE RESURRECTION. | |
| 140. | DEBATES CONCERNING THE REALITY OF THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS. | |
| V. | THE ASCENSION. | |
| 141. | THE LAST COMMANDS AND PROMISES OF JESUS. | |
| 142. | THE SO-CALLED ASCENSION CONSIDERED AS A SUPERNATURAL AND AS A NATURAL EVENT. | |
| 143. | INSUFFICIENCY OF THE NARRATIVES OF THE ASCENSION. MYTHICAL CONCEPTION OF THOSE NARRATIVES. | |
| | CONCLUDING DISSERTATION. THE DOGMATIC IMPORT OF THE LIFE OF JESUS. | |
| 144. | NECESSARY TRANSITION FROM CRITICISM TO DOGMA. | |
| 145. | THE CHRISTOLOGY OF THE ORTHODOX SYSTEM. | |
| 146. | OBJECTIONS TO THE CHRISTOLOGY OF THE CHURCH. | |
| 147. | THE CHRISTOLOGY OF RATIONALISM. | |
| 148. | THE ECLECTIC CHRISTOLOGY OF SCHLEIERMACHER. | |
| 149. | CHRISTOLOGY INTERPRETED SYMBOLICALLY. KANT. DE WETTE. | |
| 150. | THE SPECULATIVE CHRISTOLOGY. | |
