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"Credulity is as real, if not so great, a sin as unbelief."
Archbishop Trench,
Notes on the Miracles of our Lord, 8th ed., p. 27.
"The abnegation of reason is not the evidence of faith, but the
confession of despair."
Dr. Lightfoot,
St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, 4th ed., p. ix.
[PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION (1874)]
PART 1 - MIRACLES
CHAPTER ONE. [Footnotes]
MIRACLES IN RELATION TO CHRISTIANITY. 1
CHAPTER TWO. [Footnotes]
MIRACLES IN RELATION TO THE ORDER OF NATURE. 18
CHAPTER THREE. [Footnotes]
REASON IN RELATION TO THE ORDER OF NATURE. 33
CHAPTER FOUR. [Footnotes]
THE AGE OF MIRACLES. 55
CHAPTER FIVE. [Footnotes]
THE PERMANENT STREAM OF MIRACULOUS PRETENSION. 83
CHAPTER SIX. [Footnotes]
MIRACLES IN RELATION TO IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION. 109
PART 2 - THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
INTRODUCTION. [Footnotes]
NATURE OF THE EXAMINATION TO BE UNDERTAKEN, AND CANONS OF CRITICISM. 121
CHAPTER ONE. [Footnotes]
CLEMENT OF ROME. 128
THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS. 137
THE PASTOR OF HERMAS. 148
THE TEACHING OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES. 149
CHAPTER TWO. [Footnotes]
THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. 158
THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP. 175
CHAPTER THREE.
JUSTIN MARTYR. 181 [Footnotes]
JUSTIN MARTYR (CONT'D). 211 [Footnotes]
JUSTIN MARTYR (CONCL'D). 255 [Footnotes]
CHAPTER FOUR. [Footnotes]
HEGESIPPUS. 268
PAPIAS OF HIERAPOLIS. 276
CHAPTER FIVE. [Footnotes]
THE CLEMENTINES. 299
THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS. 320
CHAPTER SIX. [Footnotes]
BASILIDES. 322
VALENTINUS. 330
CHAPTER SEVEN. [Footnotes]
MARCION. 344
CHAPTER EIGHT. [Footnotes]
TATIAN. 366
DIONYSIUS OF CORINTH. 381
CHAPTER NINE. [Footnotes]
MELITO OF SARDIS. 387
CLAUDIUS APOLLINARIS. 395
ATHENAGORAS. 398
EPISTLE OF VIENNE AND LYONS. 404
CHAPTER TEN. [Footnotes]
PTOLOMAEUS AND HERACLEON. 408
CELSUS. 422
THE CANON OF MURATORI. 427
PART 3 - THE FOURTH GOSPEL
PART 4 - THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLESCHAPTER ONE.
THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE. 435 [Footnotes]
THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE (CONT'D). 459 [Footnotes]
THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE (CONCL'D). 486 [Footnotes]
CHAPTER TWO.
THE AUTHORSHIP AND CHARACTER OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL. 510 [Footnotes]
THE AUTHORSHIP AND CHARACTER OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL (CONCL'D). 538 [Footnotes]
PART 5 - THE DIRECT EVIDENCE FOR MIRACLESCHAPTER ONE. [Footnotes]
THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE. 567
CHAPTER TWO. [Footnotes]
EVIDENCE REGARDING THE AUTHORSHIP. 585
CHAPTER THREE. [Footnotes]
HISTORICAL VALUE OF THE WORK. DESIGN AND COMPOSITION. 613
CHAPTER FOUR. [Footnotes]
HISTORICAL VALUE OF THE WORK, CONTINUED. PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY. 638
CHAPTER FIVE. [Footnotes]
VALUE OF THE WORK, CONTINUED. STEPHEN THE MARTYR. 659
CHAPTER SIX. [Footnotes]
HISTORICAL VALUE OF THE WORK, CONTINUED. PHILIP IN SAMARIA. PETER AND CORNELIUS. 673
CHAPTER SEVEN.
HISTORICAL VALUE OF THE WORK, CONTINUED. PAUL THE APOSTLE OF THE GENTILES. 686 [Footnotes]
HISTORICAL VALUE OF THE WORK (CONCL'D). 719 [Footnotes]
CHAPTER ONE.
THE EPISTLES AND THE APOCALYPSE. 753
CHAPTER TWO.
THE EVIDENCE OF PAUL. 756 [Footnotes]
THE EVIDENCE OF PAUL (CONCL'D). 779 [Footnotes]
PART 6 - THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION
CHAPTER ONE. [Footnotes]
THE RELATION OF EVIDENCE TO ITS SUBJECT. 801
CHAPTER TWO.
THE EVIDENCE OF THE GOSPELS. 808 [Footnotes]
THE EVIDENCE OF THE GOSPELS (CONCL'D). 829 [Footnotes]
CHAPTER THREE.
THE EVIDENCE OF PAUL. 851 [Footnotes]
THE EVIDENCE OF PAUL (CONCL'D). 873 [Footnotes]