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The Life Of Christ, Volume 1

The Life Of Christ, Volume 1 [you are here] The Life Of Christ, Volume 2 The Life Of Christ, Volume 3 CONTENTS FIRST VOLUME PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION vii (Translated from the French) INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I THE PERSONAL MANIFESTATION OF GOD IN HUMANITY God, the Creator, Owed it to His Glory to Raise up Fallen Humanity; He Found in Himself the Means of Doing so, without Sacrifice of His Justice; it was for the Word to Become Incarnate and to Bring Back Creation to its Beginning — The Belief in a Restorer to Come from Heaven was Universal — The Sudden, Widespread, and, Humanly Speaking, Inexplicable Revolution which has Transformed the World, in the Name of Jesus Christ, Proves that this Divine Manifestation has Taken Place 1 CHAPTER II THE BOOKS WHICH CONTAIN THE DETAILS OF THIS MANIFESTATION The Epistles and Discourses of the Apostles — The Four Gospels — They were Written by the Apostolic Generation — Summary History of the Synoptic Gospels — Cause of their Similarity — St. John and his Work — Proofs, Human and Divine, of the Veracity of our Four Biographers 18 CHAPTER III THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THIS MANIFESTATION Palestine and its People — The Land Beyond the Jordan and its Divis

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