An edition of The character of Jesus
(1886)
The character of Jesus
forbidding his possible classification with men
by Horace Bushnell
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The character of Jesus: forbidding his possible classification with men
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The character of Jesus: forbidding his possible classification with men
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The character of Jesus: forbidding his possible classification with men
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The character of Jesus: forbidding his possible classification with men
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Table of Contents
We assume nothing reported of him to be true
The only character that has a perfect youth
The picture stands by itself
The absurd pictures given of infant prodigies
Jesus the only great character that holds a footing of innocence
The only religious character that disowns repentance
He unites characters difficult to be united
The astonishing pretensions of Jesus
His pretensions enter also into his actions
Nobody offended by these pretensions
What mere man could support such pretensions?
Peculiar in the passive virtues
Does not falter n the common trials of existence
His passion, no mere human martyrdom
His agony misplaced, taken as being only a man's
It is, humanly speaking, excessive
The pathology is divine
His defense before Pilate, all that could be made
He undertakes what is humanly impossible
he assumes to set up the kingdom of God among men
His plan covers ages of time
Such attempts not human
He takes rank with the humblest orders of society
No great social architect ever saw the wisdom of it
And still he raises no partisan felling
No human leader in this
Original and independent as no man is
Teaches by no human method
Warped by no desire to gain assent
Comprehensive, under no human conditions
Could not hold a one-sided view
Clear of all current superstitions
But no liberalist
His simplicity is perfect
Shining as pure light
Adequately teaches God even to the humble
This morality is not artistic
But intuitive and original
Never anxious for success
Raised and made sacred by familiarity
Our experience of men reversed in him
Recapitulation
Did such a being actually exist
Was he a sinless character
Mr. Parker's estimate of him
Mr. Hennel's estimate
Faults charged
Faults supposed and intimated
His invective against the Pharisees
Milton's right of invective
The fact of his miracles inferred
His errand is order itself
The mythical hypothesis impossible
Their successes Mr. Parker concedes
The miracles are in place in a gospel
Miracles rejected, so is Jesus the grand miracle
Jesus himself is sufficient evidence.
Edition Notes
"The tenth chapter of his treatise 'Nature and the supernatural.' "--Publisher's advertisement, p. [3]
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