ANALYSIS OF THE LECTURES. LECTURE I. THE QUESTION BEFORE US. St. Matt. xvi. 13. The Question before us in these Lectures is proposed by I. Enduring interest of the question thus raised even for non-believers II. Three answers to it are possible— 1. The Humanitarian 2. The Arian 3. The Catholic PAGE 3 6 9 II 15 16 Of these the Arian is unsubstantial, so that prac- III. The Catholic Answer 1. jealousy guards the truth of Christ's Manhood 18 2. secures its full force to the idea of Godhead IV. Position taken in these Lectures stated Objections to the necessary discussion a. From the ground of Historical Estheticism B. From the ground of 'Anti-doctrinal' Morality 37 7. From the ground of Subjective Pietism. Anticipated course of the argument. 3344 4I 42 1 xxii Analysis of the Lectures. LECTURE II. ANTICIPATIONS OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. Gal. iii. 8. Principle of the Organic Unity of Scripture.-Its importance in the argument. I. Foreshadowings a. Indications in the Old Testament of a Plurality B. The Theophanies; their import PAGE 44 48 51 Probable Providential purpose of Philo's speculations. 70 II. Predictions and Announcements— Hope in a future, a moral necessity for men and nations 72 Messiah Four stages observable in the Messianic doctrine— a. From the Protevangelium to the death of Moses 75 78 y. From Isaiah to Malachi Contrast between the original doctrine and the se- Conclusion: The foregoing argument illustrated— 1. from the emphatic Monotheism of the Old 2. from its full description of Christ's Manhood. Analysis of the Lectures. xxiii LECTURE III. OUR LORD'S WORK IN THE WORLD A WITNESS TO HIS DIVINITY. St. Matt. xiii. 54-56. I. Our Lord's 'Plan' (caution as to the use of the ex Its substance the formation of a world-wide spi- It is set forth in His Discourses and Parables Its two leading characteristics II. Success of our Lord's 'Plan' 1. The verdict of Church history PAGE 98 99 100 2. Objections from losses and difficulties, con 3. Internal empire of Christ over souls 4. External results of His work observable in III. How to account for the success of our Lord's 'Plan' 1. Not by reference to the growth of other 2. Not by the 'causes' assigned by Gibbon But only by the belief in, and truth of Christ's Divinity 145 LECTURE IV. OUR LORD'S DIVINITY AS WITNESSED BY HIS CONSCIOUSNESS. St. John x. 33. The 'Christ of history' none other than the 'Christ of xxiv Analysis of the Lectures. A. The Miracles of the Gospel History Their bearing upon the question of Christ's Person Christ's Moral Perfection bound up with their reality 160 B. Our Lord's Self-assertion. I. First stage of His Teaching chiefly Ethical marked by a. silence as to any moral defect B. intense authoritativeness. II. Second stage: increasing Self-assertion. 169 177 a. in His claim of co-equality with the Father 179 B. in His assertion that He is essentially one y. in His references to His actual Pre-exist ence Ground of Christ's condemnation by the Jews III. Christ's Self-assertion viewed in its bearing upon His 1. Sincerity. 2. Unselfishness 3. Humility. 182 190 all dependent upon the truth of His Divinity 195 The argument necessarily assumes the form of a great alternative LECTURE V. 203 THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY IN THE WRITINGS OF ST. JOHN. 1 St. John i. 1-3. St. John's Gospel 'the battle-field' of the New Testament I. Ancient and modern objections to its claims Its distinctive internal features may be explained Analysis of the Lectures. The Word identical with the only-begotten Son. III. It is in doctrinal and moral unison with- 1. The Epistles of St. John 2. The Apocalypse. 3. their report of His Doctrine and Work, and 249 Summary V. It incurs the objection that a God-Man is philosophi- This objection misapprehends the Scriptural and Ca- |