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Glover details all that is historically known about Jesus. The book thoroughly examines everything from Jesus' teachings in the Bible to extra-Biblical records to reflecting on the manners and customs of the day. The author's goal is to paint a clearer picture of who Jesus was, the times in which he lived, and what it may have been like to see Him in that day. The reader will be hard-pressed to not come away with a sense of having been introduced to a whole series of fresh and fruitful thoughts. He has expands for us, a sentence from an earlier book:

"Jesus of Nazareth does stand in the centre of human history, that He has brought God and man into a new relation, that He is the present concern of every one of us and that there is more in Him than we have yet accounted for."

Modern Reviews
"I truly feel that after reading this work,I have a much more intimate relationship with Jesus personally, and a far more enlightened idea of the man himself"
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"The author takes some positions that are worth serious consideration. He examines all that is historically known about Jesus and reflects on the church of his time. Church leaders of today might take similar positions and then might ask themselves why nothing has changed."



TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
THE STUDY OF THE GOSPELS

Modern study of religion
Historicity of Jesus
The gospels as historical sources
Canons for the study of a historical figure
A caution against antiquarianism here

CHAPTER II
CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
References in Gospels
Utilisation of the parables to reconstruct the domestic life
Nature
The city
The talk of the market

CHAPTER III
THE MAN AND HIS MIND
Words and looks, as recorded in the gospels
Playfulness of speech
Movements of feeling Habits of thought: e.g. Quickness.
Feeling for fact.
Sympathy.
Imagination
His use of the Old Testament

CHAPTER IV
THE TEACHER AND THE DISCIPLES THE BACKGROUND
Hardness of the human life in those times
Uncertainness as to God's plans for the nation-specially as to His purposes for the Messiah
Uncertainty as to the immortality of the soul, and its destinies Re-action of all this upon life

THE PROBLEM BEFORE THE TEACHER
To induce people to try to re-think God
To secure the re-thinking of life from its foundations in view of the new knowledge

THE TEACHER AND THE DISCIPLES
His personality, and his genius for friendship
The disciples-the type he prefers
Intimacy, the real secret of his method
His ways of speech
His seriousness
The transformation of the disciples

CHAPTER V
THE TEACHING OF JESUS UPON GOD JESUS' OWN GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS
The Nearness of God God's knowledge and power God's throne Jesus emphasizes mostly God's interest in the individual-the love of God

THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
The discovery of God Parables of the treasure finder and the pearl merchant Faith in God Prayer Life on the basis of God

CHAPTER VI
JESUS AND MAN
Jesus' sympathy with men and their troubles
His feelings for the suffering and distressed His feeling for women and children
His emphasis on tenderness and forgiveness
The characteristics which he values in men
The value of the individual soul Jesus and the wasted life Zacchaeus.
The woman with the alabaster box. The penitent thief

CHAPTER VII
JESUS' TEACHING UPON SIN
The problem of sin John the Baptist on sin Jesus' psychology of sin more serious The outstanding types of sin which, according to Jesus, involve for a man the utmost risk: (a) Want of tenderness ( b ) The impure imagination ( c ) Indifference to truth (d) Indecision Jesus' view of sin as deduced from this teaching Implication of a serious view of redemption

CHAPTER VIII
THE CHOICE OF THE CROSS
What the cross meant to him

HIS REFERENCES TO THE GOSPEL AND ITS RESULTS
The kingdom of heaven
The call for followers
His announcement of purpose in his life and death
What he means by redemption

FACTORS IN HIS CHOICE OF THE CROSS
His sense of human need His realization of God
His recognition of his own relation to God His prayer life

VERIFICATION FROM THE EVENT
The Resurrection The new life of the disciples The taking away of the sin of the world

RE-EXAMINATION OF HIS CHOICE OF THE CROSS
As it bears on the problem of pain and of sin and on God How a man is to understand Jesus Christ

CHAPTER IX
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE THE ROMAN EMPIRE
One rule of many races General peace and free intercourse the world over Fusion of cultures, traditions, religions "The marriage of East and West"

THE OLD RELIGION
(1) Its strength: in its ancient tradition in its splendour of art, architecture and ceremony in its oracles, healings and theophanies in its adaptability in absorbing all cults and creeds (2) Its weakness: No deep sense of truth No association with morality Polytheism The fear of the grave (3) Its defence: Plutarch-the Stoics-Neo-Platonism-the Eclectics

THE VICTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
(1) Its characteristics (2) Persecuted because it refused to compromise (3) The Christian "out-lived" the pagan "out died" him "out-thought him"

CHAPTER X
JESUS IN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
The impulse to determine who he is, and his relation to God The records of Christian experience The Study of the personality of Jesus Christ (a) The Gospels ( b ) Christological theory a guide to experience ( c )The new experience of the Reformation period Knowledge gained by the experiment comes before explanation

JESUS TO BE KNOWN BY WHAT HE DOES
The forgiveness of sin, and the theories to explain it Is a Theology of Redemption possible which shall not be mainly metaphor or simile?

THE PROBLEM OF THE INCARNATION
The approach is to be "a posterioria" In fact, God and man are only known to us in and by Jesus Only in Christ is the love of God as taught in N.T. tenable To know Jesus in what he can do, is antecedent to theory about him

APPENDIX
Suggestions for study circle discussions