The Criticism of the Fourth Gospel

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Author

Sanday, W. (William), 1843-1920

Title

The Criticism of the Fourth Gospel Eight Lectures on the Morse Foundation, Delivered in the Union Seminary, New York in October and November 1904

Credits

Produced by Charlene Taylor, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

BS: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: The Bible, Old and New Testament

Subject

Bible. John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60553

Release Date

October 22, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Criticism of the Fourth Gospel
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LECTURE I SURVEY OF RECENT LITERATURE — 1. Conservative Opinion. — 2. Mediating Theories. — 3. Partition Theories. — 4. Uncompromising Rejection. — 5. Recent Reaction.
5. 5.LECTURE II CRITICAL METHODS. THE OLDEST SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL — I. i. Defects in the Methods of current Criticism. — ii. Instances in which Criticism has corrected itself. — iii. Examples of Mistaken Method as applied to the Fourth Gospel. — II. The Oldest Solution of the Problem of the Fourth Gospel.
6. 6.LECTURE III THE STANDPOINT OF THE AUTHOR — I. The Gospel is put forward as the Work of an Eye-witness. — i. Passages which make a direct claim. — ii. Passages in which the impression conveyed is indirect. — II. The Identity of the Evangelist.
7. 7.LECTURE IV THE PRAGMATISM OF THE GOSPEL — Different Kinds of Precision in Detail. — i. Pilgrimages. — ii. Ceremonies. — iii. The Temple. — iv. Sects and Parties. — v. Jewish Ideas and Dialectic. — vi. The Messianic Expectation.
8. 8.LECTURE V THE CHARACTER OF THE NARRATIVE — I. Alleged Discrepancies with the Synoptic Narrative. — i. The Scene of the Ministry. — ii. The Duration of the Ministry. — iii. The Cleansing of the Temple. — iv. The Date of the Last Supper and of the Crucifixion. — II. The alleged Want of Development in St. John’s Narrative. — i. Anticipated Confessions. — ii. The Use of the Word ‘Believe.’ — iii. Traces of Development in the Fourth Gospel. — III. The Nature of the Discourses. — IV. The Presentation of the Supernatural. — i. The treatment of Miracle in the Fourth Gospel. — ii. Method of approaching the Question of Miracle. — iii. The Gospel embodies ocular Testimony. — iv. A Patristic Parallel.
9. 9.LECTURE VI THE DOCTRINE OF THE LOGOS, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE GOSPEL — I. Affinities of the Logos doctrine. — 1. Partial parallels in O. T. and Judaism. — 2. The Evangelist not a philosopher. — 3. Points of Agreement with Philo. — 4. Absence of Philonian Catch-words. — 5. More fundamental differences. — iv. Possible avenues of connexion. — II. Relation of the Prologue to the rest of the Gospel. — 1. View of Harnack. — 2. View of Grill. — 3. View of Loisy.
10. 10.LECTURE VII The Christology of the Gospel — 1. The Gospel not a Biography. — 2. The Christology of St. John compared with that of St. Paul and of the Epistle to the Hebrews. — 3. Comparison with the Synoptic Gospels. — 4. Interpretation of these Relations between the Synoptic Gospels, St. Paul and St. John: Alternative Constructions. — Two Preliminary Remarks. — 5. Objections to the Critical Theory. — 6. Larger Objections.
11. 11.LECTURE VIII THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE GOSPEL — I. Summary of the Internal Evidence. — II. The External Evidence. — 1. The Position at the end of the Second Century. — 2. Earlier Evidence. — III. Unsolved Problems. — 1. The relation of the Gospel to the Apocalypse. — 2. The date of Papias. — 3. The death of the Apostle John. — 4. The son of Zebedee and the beloved disciple. — 5. John of Ephesus and his Gospel. — Epilogue on the Principles of Criticism.
12. 12.INDEX

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