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In studying the Bible, what is the function of Faith, and what that of Reason?
What is the chronological order of the early records of the life and teachings of Jesus?
CHAPTER III. INSPIRATION. 26-31.
What two views concerning inspiration of the Bible writers?
What two diverse opinions as to the circumstances of the writing and of the writers of
the four canonical Gospels?
What is the order of the principal events narrated in the four canonical Gospel:?
What two views as to the exemption of narrations concerning Jesus from the ordinary
liability to accretion; (and herein) what may safely be considered the uses of
the Oriental imageries?
What two different views of the genealogical records of Jesus?
CHAPTER VIII. ANNUNCIATION. 46-48.
What two views concerning the annunciation to Mary, the star-heralding, and the
angel-chorus?
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What diverse views of the date and place of the birth of Jesus?
What threefold classification of men's views of God and the expression of Jesus,
"Our Father"?
How does John the Baptist rank in the order of prophets and of martyrs?
Did John the Baptist belong to any secret order whose rites would suggest to him the
ordinance of Baptism, and what the possible relation of Jesus thereto ?
CHAPTER XIV. INITIATION. 71, 72.
What two views as to the phenomena at the baptism of Jesus?
CHAPTER XV. TEMPTATION. 73-82.
What are the eight principal views concerning the temptation of Jesus, and in what
two convenient categories? (And herein) what is the effect of success and of
defeat in the formation of individual character?
What three forms of temptation would be likely to arise and to recur for a season
in the mind of a young man, if he were placed in the then circumstances of Jesus?
CHAPTER XVII.
HARMONIZATION. 87-92.
Wherein are Introspection and Self-renunciation, as exemplified by Jesus, effective
toward harmonizing the lower human tendencies with the higher and resisting
temptation to sin?
CHAPTER XVIII.
DEMONIZATION.
93-95.
What are the three principal views concerning the existence of a personal devil, and
the teachings of Jesus in general thereon?
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CHAPTER XIX. TRANSGRESSION. 96-101.
What are the different Orthodox and other leading metaphysical views concerning the
mystery of the Fall" and Christ's teachings thereon?
Why did Jesus choose Capernaum for the beginning of his public ministry, and how
did the associations of the place affect his discourses
CHAPTER XXI.
INAUGURATION.
104, 105.
In opening the gospel work, what were the personal habits of Jesus; and what the
order of incidents, including the choice of disciples?
What two views concerning the development of Christ's character and mission?
CHAPTER XXIII.
ADAPTATION. IIO-II2.
What other explanation of the fact of Christ's use of approximative language?
CHAPTER XXIV.
ALLOCUTION. 113-117.
Where, when, and how were the principal discourses of Jesus delivered?
CHAPTER XXV.
VENERATION. 118-124.
Wherein and what the regenerating tendencies of the indoctrination of faith in Christ
and in the mutuality or "solidarity" of the human race?
What is meant in the Beatitudes by the "kingdom of heaven," and what the prog-
ress of its development?
CHAPTER XXVII.
INDOCTRINATION.
130-137.
What is the most important characteristic of the Sermon on the Mount, and what the
first four precepts against selfishness?
CHAPTER XXVIII. REALIZATION. 138-147.
What three leading experiential precepts in the Sermon on the Mount?
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CHAPTER XXIX.
SUPPLICATION. 148-155.
What three views of Christ's precepts on prayer?
CHAPTER XXX.
ASPIRATION. 156-165.
What generally indorsed sentiments of experienced thinkers upon best promoting the
aspirational element of prayer?
CHAPTER XXXI. ALLEVIATION. 166–171.
What two views of the curative ministrations of Jesus to minds and bodies diseased?
What three views concerning Christ's ejecting traders from the temple; and what
generally as to his self-assertion or aggression?
CHAPTER XXXIV. MINISTRATION. 179–188.
What is the common enumeration of the miracles alleged in the four Gospels to have
been performed by Christ; and what the present different leading views of the
accounts thereof?
CHAPTER XXXV.
VERIFICATION.
189-192.
What is the present tendency of the age in applying the rule of Paul, "Make the
doctrine prove the miracle," and the converse rule of Trench and Mill that
"No miracle proves a doctrine"?
CHAPTER XXXVI.
RESURRECTION.
193-200.
What two views concerning a resurrection of the body of Jesus?
CHAPTER XXXVII.
ELECTION. 201-203.
What two views as to "divine election and foreordination," and the teachings of
Christ and Paul thereon?
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
REDEMPTION.
204-206.
What two views of redemption of the soul from consequences of sin?
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TRANSITION.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
207-211.
What transitional condition is implied in the "Free-will" explanation of Paul's
words "all be made alive," etc.?
CHAPTER XL.
REGENERATION.
212-217.
What is the evolutional view of regeneration, and what concerning emotion, subordi-
nation, and profession, as factors or as results?
What is the evolutional view concerning the later as compared with the earlier
teachings of Paul upon the scope of the life and death of Christ with reference
to our salvation?
CHAPTER XLII. DAMNATION. 222-232.
What three views concerning Christ's intendment in the use of the words "Gehenna,"
"Condemnation," etc.?
CHAPTER XLIII.
PERPETUATION.
233-247.
What are the five principal arguments in behalf of the immortality of the soul?
CHAPTER XLIV.
EXALTATION. 248-254.
What two views as to Christ's intendment concerning heaven?
CHAPTER XLV.
INTELLECTION, EMOTION, VOLITION. 255-263.
Supplementary to the teachings of Socrates, Plato, Christ, and Paul, what are the
four principal philosophical theories of the mind's knowledge of God?
APPENDIX. 265.
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