The mystery of the Kingdom of God
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Chapters (69)
- PREFACE
- THE MYSTERY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
- AN INTRODUCTION
- 1. An Account of Schweitzer’s Work and Its Reception.
- 2. The Significance of Schweitzer’s Work.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER I
- THE MODERN “HISTORICAL” SOLUTION
- 1. Summary Account of It.
- 2. The Four Assumptions of the Modern-Historical Solution.
- 3. The Two Contrasted Periods. (First Assumption.)
- 4. The Influence of the Pauline Theory of the Atonement upon the Formulation of the Synoptical Prediction of the Passion. (Second Assumption.)
- 5. The Kingdom of God as an Ethical Entity in the Passion Idea. (Third Assumption.)
- 6. The Form of the Prediction of the Passion. (Fourth Assumption.)
- 7. Résumé.
- CHAPTER II
- THE “DEVELOPMENT” OF JESUS
- 1. The Kingdom of God as an Ethical and as an Eschatological Fact.
- 2. The Eschatological Character of the Charge to the Twelve.
- 3. The New View.
- CHAPTER III
- THE PREACHING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
- 1. The New Morality as Repentance.
- 2. The Ethics of Jesus and Modern Ethics.
- CHAPTER IV
- THE SECRET OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
- 1. The Parables of the Secret of the Kingdom of God.
- 2. The Secret of the Kingdom of God in the Address to the People after the Mission of the Twelve.
- 3. The Secret of the Kingdom of God in the Light of the Prophetic and Jewish Expectation.
- 4. The Secret of the Kingdom of God and the Assumption of a Fortunate Galilean Period.
- 5. The Secret of the Kingdom of God and the Universalism of Jesus.
- 6. The Secret of the Kingdom of God and Jesus’ Attitude towards the Law and the State.
- 7. The Modern Element in Jesus’ Eschatology.
- CHAPTER V
- THE SECRET OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN THE THOUGHT OF THE PASSION
- CHAPTER VI
- THE CHARACTER ASCRIBED TO JESUS ON THE GROUND OF HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY
- 1. The Problem and the Facts.
- 2. Jesus Is Elijah through His Solidarity with the Son of Man.
- 3. Jesus Is Elijah through the Signs which Proceed from Him.
- 4. The Victory over Demons and the Secret of the Kingdom of God.
- 5. Jesus and the Baptist.
- 6. The Baptist and Jesus.
- 7. The Blind Man at Jericho and the Ovation at the Entrance to Jerusalem.
- CHAPTER VII
- AFTER THE MISSION OF THE TWELVE. LITERARY AND HISTORICAL PROBLEMS
- 1. The Voyage on the Lake after the Return of the Twelve.
- 2. The Supper by the Seashore.
- 3. The Week at Bethsaida.
- CHAPTER VIII
- THE SECRET OF MESSIAHSHIP
- 1. From the Mount of Transfiguration to Cæsarea Philippi
- 2. The Futuristic Character of Jesus’ Messiahship.
- 3. The Son of Man and the Futuristic Character of Jesus’ Messiahship.
- 4. The Resurrection of the Dead and the Futuristic Character of Jesus’ Messiahship.
- 5. The Betrayal by Judas—the Last Disclosure of the Secret of Messiahship.
- CHAPTER IX
- THE SECRET OF THE PASSION
- 1. The Pre-Messianic Affliction.
- 2. The Idea of the Passion in the First Period.
- 3. The “Temptation” and the Divine Omnipotence.
- 4. The Idea of the Passion in the Second Period.
- 5. Isaiah 40[-66]: The Secret of the Passion Foretold in the Scripture.
- 6. The “Human” Element in the Secret of the Passion.
- 7. The Idea of the Passion in the Primitive Church. The Shifting of the Perspective.
- CHAPTER X
- SUMMARY OF THE LIFE OF JESUS
- POSTSCRIPT
- TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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