§ 1. INEVITABLE RISE OF DIFFERENT MODES OF EXPLAINING SACRED HISTORIES.

§ 2. DIFFERENT EXPLANATIONS OF SACRED LEGENDS AMONG THE GREEKS.

§ 3. ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATIONS AMONG THE HEBREWS.—PHILO.

§ 4. ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATIONS AMONG THE CHRISTIANS.—ORIGEN.

§ 5. TRANSITION TO MORE MODERN TIMES.—DEISTS AND NATURALISTS OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES.—THE WOLFENBÜTTEL FRAGMENTIST.

§ 6. NATURAL MODE OF EXPLANATION ADOPTED BY THE RATIONALISTS.—EICHHORN.—PAULUS.

§ 7. MORAL INTERPRETATION OF KANT.

§ 8. RISE OF THE MYTHICAL MODE OF INTERPRETING THE SACRED HISTORY, IN REFERENCE FIRST TO THE OLD TESTAMENT.

§ 9. THE MYTHICAL MODE OF INTERPRETATION IN REFERENCE TO THE NEW TESTAMENT.

§ 10. THE NOTION OF THE MYTHUS IN ITS APPLICATION TO SACRED HISTORIES NOT CLEARLY APPREHENDED BY THEOLOGIANS.

§ 11. THE APPLICATION OF THE NOTION OF THE MYTHUS TOO CIRCUMSCRIBED.

§ 12. OPPOSITION TO THE MYTHICAL VIEW OF THE GOSPEL HISTORY.

§ 13. THE POSSIBILITY OF THE EXISTENCE OF MYTHI IN THE NEW TESTAMENT CONSIDERED IN REFERENCE TO THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCES.

§ 14. THE POSSIBILITY OF MYTHI IN THE NEW TESTAMENT CONSIDERED ON INTERNAL GROUNDS.

§ 15. DEFINITION OF THE EVANGELICAL MYTHUS AND ITS DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS.

§ 16. CRITERIA BY WHICH TO DISTINGUISH THE UNHISTORICAL IN THE GOSPEL NARRATIVE.

§ 17. ACCOUNT GIVEN BY LUKE.1 IMMEDIATE, SUPERNATURAL CHARACTER OF THE REPRESENTATION.

§ 18. NATURAL EXPLANATION OF THE NARRATIVE.

§ 19. MYTHICAL VIEW OF THE NARRATIVE IN ITS DIFFERENT STAGES.

§ 20. THE TWO GENEALOGIES OF JESUS CONSIDERED SEPARATELY AND IRRESPECTIVELY OF ONE ANOTHER.

§ 21. COMPARISON OF THE TWO GENEALOGIES—ATTEMPT TO RECONCILE THEIR CONTRADICTIONS.

§ 22. THE GENEALOGIES UNHISTORICAL.

§ 23. SKETCH OF THE DIFFERENT CANONICAL AND APOCRYPHAL ACCOUNTS.

§ 24. DISAGREEMENTS OF THE CANONICAL GOSPELS IN RELATION TO THE FORM OF THE ANNUNCIATION.

§ 25. IMPORT OF THE ANGEL’S MESSAGE.—FULFILMENT OF THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH.

§ 26. JESUS BEGOTTEN OF THE HOLY GHOST. CRITICISM OF THE ORTHODOX OPINION.

§ 27. RETROSPECT OF THE GENEALOGIES.

§ 28. NATURAL EXPLANATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE CONCEPTION.

§ 29. HISTORY OF THE CONCEPTION OF JESUS VIEWED AS A MYTHUS.

§ 30. RELATION OF JOSEPH TO MARY—BROTHERS OF JESUS.

§ 31. VISIT OF MARY TO ELIZABETH.

§ 32. THE CENSUS.

§ 33. PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS. THE CIRCUMCISION.

§ 34. THE MAGI AND THEIR STAR. THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND THE MURDER OF THE CHILDREN IN BETHLEHEM. CRITICISM OF THE SUPRANATURALISTIC VIEW.

§ 35. ATTEMPTS AT A NATURAL EXPLANATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE MAGI. TRANSITION TO THE MYTHICAL EXPLANATION.

§ 36. THE PURELY MYTHICAL EXPLANATION OF THE NARRATIVE CONCERNING THE MAGI, AND OF THE EVENTS WITH WHICH IT IS CONNECTED.

§ 37. CHRONOLOGICAL RELATION BETWEEN THE VISIT OF THE MAGI, TOGETHER WITH THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, AND THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE RECORDED BY LUKE.

§ 38. THE PRESENTATION OF JESUS IN THE TEMPLE.

§ 39. RETROSPECT. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MATTHEW AND LUKE AS TO THE ORIGINAL RESIDENCE OF THE PARENTS OF JESUS.

§ 40. JESUS, WHEN TWELVE YEARS OLD, IN THE TEMPLE.

§ 41 THIS NARRATIVE ALSO MYTHICAL.

§ 42. ON THE EXTERNAL LIFE OF JESUS UP TO THE TIME OF HIS PUBLIC APPEARANCE.

§ 43. THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF JESUS.

§ 44. CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN JOHN AND JESUS.

§ 45. APPEARANCE AND DESIGN OF THE BAPTIST. HIS PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH JESUS.

§ 46. WAS JESUS ACKNOWLEDGED BY JOHN AS THE MESSIAH? AND IN WHAT SENSE?

§ 47. OPINION OF THE EVANGELISTS AND JESUS CONCERNING THE BAPTIST, WITH HIS OWN JUDGMENT ON HIMSELF. RESULT OF THE INQUIRY INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS.

§ 48. THE EXECUTION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.

§ 49. WHY DID JESUS RECEIVE BAPTISM FROM JOHN?

§ 50. THE SCENE AT THE BAPTISM OF JESUS CONSIDERED AS SUPERNATURAL AND AS NATURAL.

§ 51. AN ATTEMPT AT A CRITICISM AND MYTHICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE NARRATIVES.

§ 52. RELATION OF THE SUPERNATURAL AT THE BAPTISM OF JESUS TO THE SUPERNATURAL IN HIS CONCEPTION.

§ 53. PLACE AND TIME OF THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS. DIVERGENCIES OF THE EVANGELISTS ON THIS SUBJECT.

§ 54. THE HISTORY OF THE TEMPTATION CONCEIVED IN THE SENSE OF THE EVANGELISTS.

§ 55. THE TEMPTATION CONSIDERED AS A NATURAL OCCURRENCE EITHER INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL; AND ALSO AS A PARABLE.

§ 56. THE HISTORY OF THE TEMPTATION AS A MYTHUS.

§ 57. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SYNOPTICAL WRITERS AND JOHN, AS TO THE CUSTOMARY SCENE OF THE MINISTRY OF JESUS.

§ 58. THE RESIDENCE OF JESUS AT CAPERNAUM.

§ 59. DIVERGENCIES OF THE EVANGELISTS AS TO THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF JESUS. DURATION OF HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY.

§ 60. THE ATTEMPTS AT A CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE PARTICULAR EVENTS IN THE PUBLIC LIFE OF JESUS.

§ 61. JESUS, THE SON OF MAN.

§ 62. HOW SOON DID JESUS CONCEIVE HIMSELF TO BE THE MESSIAH, AND FIND RECOGNITION AS SUCH FROM OTHERS?

§ 63. JESUS, THE SON OF GOD.

§ 64. THE DIVINE MISSION AND AUTHORITY OF JESUS. HIS PRE-EXISTENCE.

§ 65. THE MESSIANIC PLAN OF JESUS. INDICATIONS OF A POLITICAL ELEMENT.

§ 66. DATA FOR THE PURE SPIRITUALITY OF THE MESSIANIC PLAN OF JESUS. BALANCE.

§ 67. THE RELATION OF JESUS TO THE MOSAIC LAW.

§ 68. SCOPE OF THE MESSIANIC PLAN OF JESUS. RELATION TO THE GENTILES.

§ 69. RELATION OF THE MESSIANIC PLAN OF JESUS TO THE SAMARITANS. HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA.

§ 70. CALLING OF THE FIRST COMPANIONS OF JESUS. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FIRST TWO EVANGELISTS AND THE FOURTH.

§ 71. PETER’S DRAUGHT OF FISHES.

§ 72. CALLING OF MATTHEW. CONNEXION OF JESUS WITH THE PUBLICANS.

§ 73. THE TWELVE APOSTLES.

§ 74. THE TWELVE CONSIDERED INDIVIDUALLY. THE THREE OR FOUR MOST CONFIDENTIAL DISCIPLES OF JESUS.

§ 75. THE REST OF THE TWELVE, AND THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES.

§ 76. THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.

§ 77. INSTRUCTIONS TO THE TWELVE. LAMENTATIONS OVER THE GALILEAN CITIES. JOY OVER THE CALLING OF THE SIMPLE.

§ 78. THE PARABLES.

§ 79. MISCELLANEOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND CONTROVERSIES OF JESUS.

§ 80. CONVERSATION OF JESUS WITH NICODEMUS.

§ 81. THE DISCOURSES OF JESUS, JOHN V.–XII.

§ 82. ISOLATED MAXIMS OF JESUS, COMMON TO THE FOURTH GOSPEL AND THE SYNOPTICAL ONES.

§ 83. THE MODERN DISCUSSIONS ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE DISCOURSES IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. RESULT.

§ 84. GENERAL COMPARISON OF THE MANNER OF NARRATION THAT DISTINGUISHES THE SEVERAL EVANGELISTS.

§ 85. ISOLATED GROUPS OF ANECDOTES. IMPUTATION OF A LEAGUE WITH BEELZEBUB, AND DEMAND OF A SIGN.

§ 86. VISIT OF THE MOTHER AND BRETHREN OF JESUS. THE WOMAN WHO PRONOUNCES THE MOTHER OF JESUS BLESSED.

§ 87. CONTENTIONS FOR PRE-EMINENCE AMONG THE DISCIPLES. THE LOVE OF JESUS FOR CHILDREN.

§ 88. THE PURIFICATION OF THE TEMPLE.

§ 89. NARRATIVES OF THE ANOINTING OF JESUS BY A WOMAN.

§ 90. THE NARRATIVES OF THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY, AND OF MARY AND MARTHA.

§ 91. JESUS CONSIDERED AS A WORKER OF MIRACLES.

§ 92. THE DEMONIACS, CONSIDERED GENERALLY.

§ 93. CASES OF THE EXPULSION OF DEMONS BY JESUS, CONSIDERED SINGLY.

§ 94. CURES OF LEPERS.

§ 95. CURES OF THE BLIND.

§ 96. CURES OF PARALYTICS. DID JESUS REGARD DISEASES AS PUNISHMENTS?

§ 97. INVOLUNTARY CURES.

§ 98. CURES AT A DISTANCE.

§ 99. CURES ON THE SABBATH.

§ 100. RESUSCITATIONS OF THE DEAD.

§ 101. ANECDOTES HAVING RELATION TO THE SEA.

§ 102. THE MIRACULOUS MULTIPLICATION OF THE LOAVES AND FISHES.

§ 103. JESUS TURNS WATER INTO WINE.

§ 104. JESUS CURSES A BARREN FIG-TREE.

§ 105. THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS CONSIDERED AS A MIRACULOUS EXTERNAL EVENT.

§ 106. THE NATURAL EXPLANATION OF THE NARRATIVE IN VARIOUS FORMS.

§ 107. THE HISTORY OF THE TRANSFIGURATION CONSIDERED AS A MYTHUS.

§ 108. DIVERGING ACCOUNTS CONCERNING THE LAST JOURNEY OF JESUS TO JERUSALEM.

§ 109. DIVERGENCIES OF THE GOSPELS, IN RELATION TO THE POINT FROM WHICH JESUS MADE HIS ENTRANCE INTO JERUSALEM.

§ 110. MORE PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE ENTRANCE. ITS OBJECT AND HISTORICAL REALITY.

§ 111. DID JESUS IN PRECISE TERMS PREDICT HIS PASSION AND DEATH?

§ 112. THE PREDICTIONS OF JESUS CONCERNING HIS DEATH IN GENERAL; THEIR RELATION TO THE JEWISH IDEA OF THE MESSIAH: DECLARATIONS OF JESUS CONCERNING THE OBJECT AND EFFECTS OF HIS DEATH.

§ 113. PRECISE DECLARATIONS OF JESUS CONCERNING HIS FUTURE RESURRECTION.

§ 114. FIGURATIVE DISCOURSES, IN WHICH JESUS IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE ANNOUNCED HIS RESURRECTION.

§ 115. THE DISCOURSES OF JESUS ON HIS SECOND ADVENT. CRITICISM OF THE DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS.

§ 116. ORIGIN OF THE DISCOURSES ON THE SECOND ADVENT.

§ 117. DEVELOPMENT OF THE RELATION OF JESUS TO HIS ENEMIES.

§ 118. JESUS AND HIS BETRAYER.

§ 119. DIFFERENT OPINIONS CONCERNING THE CHARACTER OF JUDAS, AND THE MOTIVES OF HIS TREACHERY.

§ 120. PREPARATION FOR THE PASSOVER.

§ 121. DIVERGENT STATEMENTS RESPECTING THE TIME OF THE LAST SUPPER.

§ 122. DIVERGENCIES IN RELATION TO THE OCCURRENCES AT THE LAST MEAL OF JESUS.

§ 123. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BETRAYAL AND THE DENIAL.

§ 124. THE INSTITUTION OF THE LORD’S SUPPER.

§ 125. AGONY OF JESUS IN THE GARDEN.

§ 126. RELATION OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL TO THE EVENTS IN GETHSEMANE. THE FAREWELL DISCOURSES IN JOHN, AND THE SCENE FOLLOWING THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE GREEKS.

§ 127. ARREST OF JESUS.

§ 128. EXAMINATION OF JESUS BEFORE THE HIGH PRIEST.

§ 129. THE DENIAL OF PETER.

§ 130. THE DEATH OF THE BETRAYER.

§ 131. JESUS BEFORE PILATE AND HEROD.

§ 132. THE CRUCIFIXION.

§ 133. PRODIGIES ATTENDANT ON THE DEATH OF JESUS.

§ 134. THE WOUND BY A SPEAR IN THE SIDE OF JESUS.

§ 135. BURIAL OF JESUS.

§ 136. THE WATCH AT THE GRAVE OF JESUS.

§ 137. FIRST TIDINGS OF THE RESURRECTION.

§ 138. APPEARANCES OF THE RISEN JESUS IN GALILEE AND IN JUDEA, INCLUDING THOSE MENTIONED BY PAUL AND BY APOCRYPHAL WRITINGS.

§ 139. QUALITY OF THE BODY AND LIFE OF JESUS AFTER THE RESURRECTION.

§ 140. DEBATES CONCERNING THE REALITY OF THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS.

§ 141. THE LAST COMMANDS AND PROMISES OF JESUS.

§ 142. THE SO-CALLED ASCENSION CONSIDERED AS A SUPERNATURAL AND AS A NATURAL EVENT.

§ 143. INSUFFICIENCY OF THE NARRATIVES OF THE ASCENSION. MYTHICAL CONCEPTION OF THOSE NARRATIVES.

§ 144. NECESSARY TRANSITION FROM CRITICISM TO DOGMA.

§ 145. THE CHRISTOLOGY OF THE ORTHODOX SYSTEM.

§ 146. OBJECTIONS TO THE CHRISTOLOGY OF THE CHURCH.

§ 147. THE CHRISTOLOGY OF RATIONALISM.

§ 148. THE ECLECTIC CHRISTOLOGY OF SCHLEIERMACHER.

§ 149. CHRISTOLOGY INTERPRETED SYMBOLICALLY. KANT. DE WETTE.

§ 150. THE SPECULATIVE CHRISTOLOGY.

§ 151. LAST DILEMMA.

§ 152. RELATION OF THE CRITICAL AND SPECULATIVE THEOLOGY TO THE CHURCH.

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