Chapter V: The Ascension

§ 141. The last commands and promises of Jesus 745
142. The so-called ascension considered as a supernatural
and as a natural event 749
143. Insufficiency of the narratives of the ascension. Mythical
conception of those narratives 752

CONCLUDING DISSERTATION.

THE DOGMATIC IMPORT OF THE LIFE OF JESUS.

§ 144. Necessary transition from criticism to dogma 757
145. The Christology of the orthodox system 758
146. Objections to the Christology of the church 764
147. The Christology of rationalism 767
148. The eclectic Christology of Schleiermacher 768
149. Christology interpreted symbolically. Kant. De Wette 773
150. The speculative Christology 777
151. Last dilemma 778
152. Relation of the critical and speculative theology to
the church 781

THE LIFE OF JESUS.