(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . Of new and more sclent -ific knowledge, even the method of dealing with the now been challenged. Our .attention is here turned to the personalityof Christ. Was He truly historical? it will be asked by |many. The acceptance of the resurrection narratives imeans that the modern mind must accept the performance ofjat least one miracle. In fact, the proofs of Christs resurrection are incomparably greater than thoseof any other miracle. Here must be foug it the decisive battlewhich pertains to the working of miracles in the
(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . Of new and more sclent -ific knowledge, even the method of dealing with the now been challenged. Our .attention is here turned to the personalityof Christ. Was He truly historical? it will be asked by |many. The acceptance of the resurrection narratives imeans that the modern mind must accept the performance ofjat least one miracle. In fact, the proofs of Christs resurrection are incomparably greater than thoseof any other miracle. Here must be foug it the decisive battlewhich pertains to the working of miracles in the resurrection miracle is the Gibralter of all it cannot be found tenable all others too must fall,Moreover, repugnahce to the miracle is the average attitudeof the man of the world today. Strauss could admit of mosuch possible interruption in the chain of causes andeffects in the cosmic order and regularity. Such an at-titude as this on the part of many thinking men is due tothe enphaslswhlch is placed in our modern day upon the ||. 5. 1 • 1 - — ?—? scientific study of the universe. Painstaiiing search and attention to detail bytiOdem scholars has added to the accumulation of critical material very extensively. Such, says Crr, furnish readyaids to the disintegration of the text and the evaporation ofits historical contents. () In addition to this angleof approach, there is another fusillade of attack frora thefield of comparative religion and mythology. This advanceaims at explaining any riven religion from the circumstancesof its environirent. It basts its position entirely on theold Eabylonlan legends which have been studied out of their^ mtiquity within recent years. If its work has succeeded in shaking the faith of some, there are among those who who areled on with its argument a number with Harnack, who maintainfaith only in a spiritual interpretaticn of the Faster mes-sage. These at least will not be shaken from theirbelief that some manifestation o
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