The Jewish and the Christian Messiah (1886 Stanton), book
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The Jewish and the Christian Messiah: a study in the earliest history of Christianity (1886) is a book by Vincent Henry Stanton.
Abstract
"Jesus must have claimed to be the Christ in a sense involving His Divinity" (p.390). "To establish the truth of that which is most essential in the Christian Faith has been my dearest object" (p.391).
Editions and translations
Published in Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1886. Reprinted in North Manchester, IN: Etherington Conservation Services, 2006.
Table of contents
- Part I: Introductory
- 1. The Scope of Our Inquiry and its Bearing upon Modern Theories of the Rise of Christianity
- 2. The Documents
- 3. General View of the History of Messianic Expectation among the Jews to the Christian Era
- 4. General Character of the Christian Transformation of the Idea of the Messiah
- 5. The Use of the Old Testament in the Early Church
- Part II: The Attitude of Jesus to Messianic Beliefs
- 1. The Teaching of Jesus Concerning the Kingdom of God
- 2. The Use by Jesus of the Title "the Son of Man"
- 3. The Claim made by Jesus Himself to be Christ
- Part III: Messianic Ideas in the Early Church
- 1. The Doctrine of the Office of the Christ in the Early Church
- 2. Comparison in Detail of Jewish and Christian Eschatology
- 3. Messianic Prophecy and Mythical Theory
- Epilogue