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PREFACE
THE subject of this book nlust not be extended
beyond the promise of the title.
I t is not an exhaustive treatise on the
A tonement or on Justification: it is an
examination of the New Testament teaching
on the Death of Christ.
That the death of Christ has a place in
the N ev Testament vhich demands for it
the most careful consideration ,vill not be
questioned by anyone j and though the
ground has often been traversed, in whole
or in part, before, there are reasons which
justify at the present time such a study
as follows. One is that, so far as the
vriter can judge, the death of Christ has
not the place assigned to it, either in
preaching or in theology, which it has in
the New Testanlent. There have been
conspicuous examples of essays and even
treatises on the Atonement. standing in r.o
discoverable relation to the New Testament.
The proportions of average current
Christianity are not those of apostolic
Christianity; and if the latter is in any


Table of Contents

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PAGE; Conception of the New Testament: its unity not; artificial, I; Misused distinctions ~ historical and dogmatic,; biblical and systematic, material and formal, 4; The death of Christ a real subject in the New; Testament, 8; Outline of study, 9; CHAPTER I; THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS; The mind of Christ and the mind of the evangelists, II; The idea that our Lord's death must have been; foreign to His mind when He entered on His; work, II; Relation to this idea of the narratives of His Baptism; and Temptation, 13; Significance of the Baptism in particular, 18; The first suggestions of our Lord's death and; allusions to it, 22; The taking away oC the Bridegroom (Mark ii 19),; and the sign of Jonah (Mat

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2679497 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages