I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
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First Sentence
"Every one has heard people quarreling."
Table of Contents
BOOK ONE.
RIGHT AND WRONG AS A CLUE TO THE MEANING OF THE UNIVERSE
Page 1
1.
THE LAW OF HUMAN NATURE
Page 3
2.
SOME OBJECTIONS
Page 9
3.
THE REALITY OF THE LAW
Page 16
4.
WHAT LIES BEHIND THE LAW
Page 21
5.
WE HAVE CAUSE TO BE UNEASY
Page 28
BOOK TWO.
WHAT CHRISTIANS BELIEVE
Page 33
1.
THE RIVAL CONCEPTIONS OF GOD
Page 35
2.
THE INVASION
Page 40
3.
THE SHOCKING ALTERNATIVE
Page 47
4.
THE PERFECT PENITENT
Page 53
5.
THE PRACTICAL CONCLUSION
Page 60
BOOK THREE.
CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOUR
Page 67
1.
THE THREE PARTS OF MORALITY
Page 69
2.
THE "CARDINAL VIRTUES"
Page 76
3.
SOCIAL MORALITY
Page 82
4.
MORALITY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Page 88
5.
SEXUAL MORALITY
Page 94
6.
CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE
Page 94
7.
FORGIVENESS
Page 115
8.
THE GREAT SIN
Page 121
9.
CHARITY
Page 129
10.
HOPE
Page 134
11.
FAITH
Page 138
12.
FAITH [CONTINUED]
Page 144
BOOK FOUR.
BEYOND PERSONALITY : OR FIRST STEPS IN THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY
Page 151
1.
MAKING AND BEGETTING
Page 153
2.
THE THREE-PERSONAL GOD
Page 160
3.
TIME AND BEYOND TIME
Page 166
4.
GOOD INFECTION
Page 172
5.
THE OBSTINATE TOY SOLDIERS
Page 178
6.
TWO NOTES
Page 183
7.
LET'S PRETEND
Page 187
8.
IS CHRISTIANITY HARD OR EASY?
Page 195
9.
COUNTING THE COST
Page 201
10.
NICE PEOPLE OR NEW MEN
Page 207
11.
THE NEW MEN
Page 218
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Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: London : G. Bles, 1952.
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