The Sinlessness of Jesus: An Evidence for Christianity

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On the sinlessness of Jesus (English translation)

Text from Christian Classics Ethereal Library; in the public domain.

Contents

1. Advertisement.
2. From the Preface to the Sixth Edition.
3. Preface to the Seventh Edition.
4. Introduction
5. Introduction.
6. Chapter I. Of Sin.
7. Chapter II. Of Sinlessness.
8. Introduction.
9. Sec. 1.—By Others.
10. Sec. 2—The Testimony of Jesus to Himself.
11. Chapter II. The Sinlessness of Christ Proved from the Effects Produced by His Manifestation.
12. Sec. 1.—The New Life of Christianity in its Moral and Religious Aspects.
13. Sec. 2.—Morality and Religion united in Holiness.
14. Sec. 3—These Effects caused not by an Idea, but by an Actual Person.
15. Introduction.
16. Chapter I. Arguments Against the Actual Sinlessness of Jesus.
17. Sec. 1—The Development of the Person of Jesus.
18. Sec. 2.—The Development of the Messianic Plan.
19. Sec. 3.—The Temptation.
20. Sec. 4.—Other Acts and Expressions of Jesus, as Arguments against His Sinlessness.
21. Introduction.
22. Sec. 1.—Arguments drawn from Experience.
23. Sec. 2.—Arguments drawn from the Nature of the Moral Idea.
24. Introduction.
25. Introduction.
26. Sec. 1.—The Human Nature of Jesus.
27. Sec. 2.—Inferences in respect to the Divine Nature of Jesus.
28. Introduction.
29. Sec. 1.—The Sinless Jesus as the personal Revelation of God.
30. Sec. 2. The Sinless Jesus as the Mediator between God and Sinful Man.
31. Sec. 3.—The Holy Jesus as the Founder of the True Fellowship of Men.
32. Sec. 4.—The Sinless Jesus as the Pledge of Eternal Life.
33. Conclusion
34. I. The History and Literatue of the Subject.
35. Introduction.
36. Chapter I. Explanation of the Details.
37. Chapter II. General View of the History of the Temptation.
38. Sec. 1. Explanations which represent the whole Narrative as a mere Product of Thought.
39. Sec. 2.—Explanations which recognise a Historical Basis of the Narrative.