The Death of Christ. Its place and interpretation in the New Testament
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- The Death of Christ. Its place and interpretation in the New Testament
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- 1911
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The Death of Christ. Its place and interpretation in the New Testament
Author: Denney, James
Year: 1911
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Conception of the New Testament: its unity not artificial, 1 Misused distinctions: historical and dogmatic, biblical and systematic, material and formal, 3 The death of Christ a real subject in the New Testament, 6 Outline of study, 7 CHAPTER I THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS The mind of Christ and the mind of the evangelists, 8 The idea that Our Lord's death must have been foreign to His mind when He entered on His work, 8 Relation to this idea of the narratives of His Baptism and Temptation, 9 Significance of the Baptism in particular, 10 The first suggestions of our Lord's death and allusions to it, 16 The taking away of the Bridegroom (Mark ii. 19), and the sign of Jonah (Matt. xii. 40), 17 The express predictions of the Passion: critical questions connected with them, (Mark viii. 31, Mark ix. 31, Mark x. 32, and parallels) — their historicity, 19 Sense in which Christ's death was necessary: (a) Inevitable? 21 (b) Indispensable? 21 Relation of these two conceptions in the mind of Jesus, 23 Bearing of Old Testament Scripture on this point, 24 What the unintelligence of the disciples meant, 25 The Ransom saying: 26 Its historical context, 27 Its interpretation — (a) Ho