Chapter I: What Is the Christian Faith?

Need of a definition 15

I. The Christianity of the New Testament Writers 16
Their emphasis upon the Passion and Resurrection 16
Their emphasis upon the Person of Christ 20

II. Primitive Christianity and Pauline Christianity 21
Was Paul the Founder of Christianity? 21
Lines of connection between Paul and the Primitive Apostles 22

III. The Christianity of Jesus and of Paul 26
Harmony in their Ethical Teaching and in their blending
of Doctrine with Ethics 27
The Christological passage, Matthew xi. 25-30: its exegesis
and its alleged isolation 35
The Passion narrative in Mark: views of Bousset 41
Self-authenticating contrasts in the Character of Christ 43

IV. The Dilemma of Historical Criticism 44
Jesus as viewed by the Liberal and the Radical Schools 44
The Dilemma of Liberal Criticism 45
Lessening Significance of a merely human Jesus 49
Harnack and von Dobschütz on the "Double Gospel" 53
The Essence of Christianity 54