e world over
Fusion of cultures, traditions, religions
"The marriage of East and West"
THE OLD RELIGION
(1) Its strength:
in its ancient tradition
in its splendour of art, architecture and ceremony
in its oracles, healings and theophanies
in its adaptability in absorbing all cults and creeds
(2) Its weakness:
No deep sense of truth
No association with morality
Polytheism
The fear of the grave
(3) Its defence:
Plutarch--the Stoics--Neo-Platonism--the Eclectics
THE VICTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
(1) Its characteristics
(2) Persecuted because it refused to compromise
(3) The Christian "out-lived" the pagan
"out died" him
"out-thought him"

CHAPTER X
JESUS IN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
The impulse to determine who he is, and his relation to God
The records of Christian experience
The Study of the personality of Jesus Christ
(a) The Gospels
(b) Christological theory a guide to experience
(c) The new experience of the Reformation period
Knowledge gained by the experiment comes before explanation
JESUS TO BE KNOWN BY WHAT HE DOES
The forgiveness of sin, and the theories to explain it
Is a Theology of Redemption possible which shall not be
mainly metaphor or simile?
THE PROBLEM OF THE INCARNATION
The approach is to be "a posterioria"
In fact, God and man are only known to us in and by Jesus
Only in Christ is the love of God as taught in N.T. tenable
To know Jesus in what he can do, is antecedent to theory about him

APPENDIX
Suggestions for study circle discussions

THE JESUS OF HISTORY

CHAPTER I

THE STUDY OF THE GOSPELS

If one thing more than another marks modern thought, it is a new
insistence on fact. In every sphere of study there is a growing
emphasis on verification. Where a generation ago a case seemed to be
closed, to-day in the light of new facts it is reopened. Matters
that to our grandfathers were trivialities, to be summarily
dismissed, are seriously studied. Again and again we find the most
fruitful avenues opened to us by questions that another age might
have laughed out of a hearing; to-day they suggest investigation of
facts insufficiently known, and of the difficult connexions betwe