1. Teacher : (1) the solitariness of the office, (2) the note of authority, (3) the originality of the teaching, (4) the future of the teachini.'.
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4. Saviour : (1) the function, bestowal of forgiveness and
of life ; (2) the response, personal trust.
5. Lord.
6. Worker of Miracles.
7. Creator of the Sew Israel.
8. Judge.
ii. His Belt-designations.
1. Son of Man : (1) \Vhence did Jesus derive the title'
(2) How did He use it ? (3) What does He reveal as tc His own Person in it ?
2. Son of God : (1) use bv demoniacs, (2) use by high
priest, (3) ascription by Peter, (4) our Lord's use, (.I) Di\ine attestation. Inference as to the constitution of our Lord's Person.
'HE WITNESS OF THE APOSTLES.
The primary fact, a living experience. Then, the Christologies. The earlier chapters in the Acts of the .\postles. I'hc minor Christologies ;
■i. First Epistle of Peter.
3. Jude and 2 Peter.
4. Apocalypse.
The Christology of St. Paul : (a) its origin in his experience, (i/) its relation to the common belief of the Church, (o) it5 development.
1. Christ in His relation to God.
2. Christ in His relation to men.
3. Christ in His relation to the Cosmos. Hebrews.
'•■I." MSP of the term Logos.
It known in history and ex-
V. Fourth Conclusion
iie solution of the problem of . i>i-obleni for faith. The know-
2. TIk . .,-.., I abluiws ut
(1) Christ kno\™ as God
(2) Christ known as Man.
(a) The origin of His earthly lite.
(6) The relation of the human and Divine aspecU of His personality. Theories under control of dualism. Psychological theories. Literature.
Introduction.— CXvAsXiaxi theology has employed many ruling ideas in order that, by means of them, it might harmonize and sy.stematize the ma.ss of material presented in Scripture and in experience. Each of these, e.g. ' the Fatherhood of God,' or ' the Kingdom of God,' has meaning and value ; but they all lie within the supreme and command- ing truth, which is the declaration of Clmstianity, viz. uiiii.n with God. Tliis truth has both a pi',:<,,),,il niiil a losmic aspect. God is the life of iiuni. (iiilv a- man thinks the DiWne thoughts, wills tlif Itiyiiie will, and acts in the Di\'ine strength, does he reach the truth of his own natiu-e, or realize his ideal self. When man is most truly himself, he finds himself to be a partaker of the Divine nature ; and what he is most crofoimdly conscious of is not himself, but the God in whom he lives, who is the source of all that is most truly human in his personal acti\'ities. The end, in attaining wliich life and satisfaction for the indi- vidual and for the race are to be fotmd, is God. God is also the life of tlie universe. Christian thcologi;- lias thrown off the blight of the old ri, i ■ "1^ *, "! vitti ilfti;_'ht to the e.\positions of Si i! ,. tliought, reason, law, life,
I ^ science can trace, but
\\ : <:ii: never define, God, the same
Guil Willi IS tiie lite 111 man. Between the power manifest in the physical universe and the power operative in the spii'itual sphere there is no oppo- sition. Both are e.xpressions of the same Divine energy.
(1) What is thus stated as a Christian doctrine is found to be present either implicitly or explicitly in all the great productions of the liunian sjiirit, which are also, most surely, productions of the Di\'ine Spirit, as it impels and tjuickens the mind of man. Union with God is at once the pre- supposition and the promise of the great reliijions, which have awakened the emotions and deter- mined the aspirations of men.
in the demand for vital union with the Divine source of life. Anthropomorphic polrtheism, as in the religion of Greece, even though its religious aspect may lie overlaid by its asthctic lieauty, has yet its roots in the elemental demand for union with the Divnne principle of being. In those religions which for good or evil have recoiled from all contact with space and time, as in the pantheism which is the substratum even to-day of the Hindu consciousness, the demand has become clear and passiniKtti-. For this purpose shrines are multiplied and aus- t, 1 that the soul of the worshipper may be
I, ind so be carried on the tide of a lesser I. iiier ocean of absolute Being. The whole
Iteligion, from polydemonism up to the ). . 1 universal religions, might be laid under
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contribution to illustrate and confirm the conclusion that tne deepeVt pa>.»ion of the human hea.t has ever been union with
(2) The idea of union with God is, fuither, the piesuppobition and the luhng categoiy of philo bophic thought To think at all iniphes that there is present to the nm 1 tin i li u oi | iiiiit\ 4)1 and to which the ni mil II I l nl ' ' ' ' '" ' verse e\ist Philoso)jli\ i ii i) h U J iiii i" " and application of this idu 1 1 riulusuiihj uujui inrfy, W\evei gieat its quauel may be \Mth anj existing lehgion, is itself fundamentally religious It seeks to accomplish, m thought and forthinkeis, the haimonizing of all leality in and with God