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Walter Richard Cassels. Supernatural Religion (Discovering the Reality of Divine Revelation)
Supernatural Religion (Discovering the Reality of Divine Revelation)
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
INTRODUCTION
AN INQUIRY INTO THE REALITY OF DIVINE REVELATION
PART I
CHAPTER I. MIRACLES IN RELATION TO CHRISTIANITY
CHAPTER II. MIRACLES IN RELATION TO THE ORDER OF NATURE
CHAPTER III. REASON IN RELATION TO THE ORDER OF NATURE
CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF MIRACLES
CHAPTER V. THE PERMANENT STREAM OF MIRACULOUS PRETENSION
CHAPTER VI. MIRACLES IN RELATION TO IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION
PART II. THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. CLEMENT OF ROME—THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS—THE PASTOR OF HERMAS
CHAPTER II. THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS—THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP
CHAPTER III. JUSTIN MARTYR
CHAPTER IV. HEGESIPPUS—PAPIAS OF HIERAPOLIS
Volume 2
Table of Contents
AN INQUIRY INTO THE REALITY OF DIVINE REVELATION
PART II
CHAPTER V. THE CLEMENTINES—THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS
CHAPTER VI. BASILIDES—VALENTINUS
CHAPTER VII. MARCION
CHAPTER VIII. TATIAN—DIONYSIUS OF CORINTH
CHAPTER IX. MELITO OF SARDIS—CLAUDIUS APOLLINARIS—ATHENAGORAS—THE EPISTLE OF VIENNE AND LYONS
CHAPTER X. PTOLEMÆUS AND HERACLEON—CELSUS—THE CANON OF MURATORI—RESULTS
PART III. THE FOURTH GOSPEL
CHAPTER I. THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE
CHAPTER II. AUTHORSHIP AND CHARACTER OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL
Volume 3
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SUPERNATURAL RELIGION: AN INQUIRY INTO THE REALITY OF DIVINE REVELATION
PART IV. THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
CHAPTER I. THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE
CHAPTER II. EVIDENCE REGARDING THE AUTHORSHIP
CHAPTER III. DESIGN AND COMPOSITION
CHAPTER IV. PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY
CHAPTER V. STEPHEN THE MARTYR
CHAPTER VI. PHILIP AND THE EUNUCH. PETER AND CORNELIUS
CHAPTER VII. PAUL THE APOSTLE OF THE GENTILES
PART V. THE DIRECT EVIDENCE FOR MIRACLES
CHAPTER I. THE EPISTLES AND THE APOCALYPSE
CHAPTER II. THE EVIDENCE OF PAUL
PART VI. THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION
CHAPTER I. THE RELATION OF EVIDENCE TO SUBJECT
CHAPTER II. THE EVIDENCE OF THE GOSPELS
CHAPTER III. THE EVIDENCE OF PAUL
CONCLUSIONS
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Walter Richard Cassels
Vol. 1-3
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Justin only appeals to them for the fact of the descent of the Holy Ghost, and not for the rest of the narrative.(1) It has of course been felt that, if it can be shown that Justin quotes from the Memoirs words and circumstances which are not to be found in our canonical Gospels, the identity of the two can no longer be maintained. It is, however, in the highest degree arbitrary to affirm that Justin intends to limit his appeal to the testimony of the apostles to one-half of his sentence. To quote authority for one assertion and to leave another in the same sentence, closely connected with it and part indeed of the very same narrative, not only unsupported, but indeed weakened by direct exclusion, would indeed be singular, for Justin affirms with equal directness and confidence the fact of the fire in Jordan, the descent of the Holy Ghost, and the words spoken by the heavenly voice. If in the strictest grammatical accuracy there may be no absolute necessity to include in that which the Apostles wrote more than the phrase immediately preceding, there is not, on the other hand, anything which requires or warrants the exclusion of the former part of the sentence. The matter must therefore be decided according to fair inference and reasonable probability, and not to suit any foregone conclusion, and these as well as all the evidence concerning Justin's use of the Memoirs irresistibly point to the conclusion that the whole passage is derived from one source. In the second extract given above, it is perfectly clear that the words spoken by the heavenly voice, which Justin again quotes, and which are not in our Gospels, were recorded in the Memoirs, for Justin could not have referred to them for an account of the temptation at the time when Jesus went up from Jordan and the voice said to him: "Thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee," if these facts and words were not recorded in them at all.(1) It is impossible to doubt, after impartial consideration, that the incident of the fire in Jordan, the words spoken by the voice from heaven, and the temptation were taken from the same source: they must collectively be referred to the Memoirs.(2)
Of one thing we may be sure: had Justin known the form of words used by the voice from heaven according to our Gospels, he would certainly have made use of it in preference to that which he actually found in his Memoirs. He is arguing that Christ is preexisting God, become incarnate by God's will through the Virgin Mary, and Trypho demands how he can be demonstrated to have been pre-existent, who is said to be filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, as though he had required this, Justin replies that these powers of the Spirit have come upon him not because he had need of them, but because they would accomplish Scripture, which declared that after him there should be no prophet.(3) The proof of this, he continues, is that, as soon as the child was born, the Magi from Arabia came to worship him, because even at his birth he was in possession of his power,(4) and after he had grown up like other men by the use of suitable means, he came to
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