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Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I.

Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I.

by Paul Wernle

Paul Wernle (1872–1939) was a Swiss New Testament scholar who taught at the University of Basel, becoming full professor there in 1905. Trained at Basel, Berlin, and Göttingen, he wrote on the synoptic Gospels, Paul, and Christian origins from a historical-critical standpoint. Our library holds his Beginnings of Christianity, a two-volume survey of the earliest church and its teaching written for general readers as well as students.

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First published
1903
Length
109k words · about 7 hours
Chapters
30

About this book

The first volume of Paul Wernle's history of Christian origins, published in English in 1903. Wernle, a Swiss scholar of the history-of-religions school, traces the beginnings of the Christian movement in its ancient setting. A learned specimen of early twentieth-century critical scholarship on the New Testament and the primitive church.

Contents

  1. Introduction.
  2. Preface.
  3. Preface to the English Translation.
  4. Chapter I. The Popular Beliefs of Antiquity.
  5. Chapter II. Judaism.
  6. Chapter III. The Fulness of the Time.
  7. Chapter IV. Jesus. The Call. 🔒
  8. Chapter V. Jesus.—The Promise. 🔒
  9. Chapter VI. Jesus.—The Claim. 🔒
  10. Chapter VII. Jesus the Redeemer. 🔒
  11. Chapter VIII. The Leaders. 🔒
  12. Chapter IX. The Development of the Church. 🔒
  13. Chapter X. The Oldest Theology. 🔒
  14. Chapter XI. The Parties and the Issue of the Struggle. 🔒
  15. Chapter XII. The Consciousness of His Call. 🔒
  16. Chapter XIII. Jesus Brought to the Gentiles. · Part 1 🔒
  17. Chapter XIII. Jesus Brought to the Gentiles. · Part 2 🔒
  18. Chapter XIII. Jesus Brought to the Gentiles. · Part 3 🔒
  19. Chapter XIV. The Presuppositions. 🔒
  20. Chapter XV> The Pauline Soteriology. · Part 1 🔒
  21. Chapter XV> The Pauline Soteriology. · Part 2 🔒
  22. Chapter XV> The Pauline Soteriology. · Part 3 🔒
  23. Chapter XV> The Pauline Soteriology. · Part 4 🔒
  24. Chapter XVI. The Anti-Jewish Apologetic. 🔒
  25. Chapter XVII. The Pauline Gnosis. 🔒
  26. Chapter XVIII. St Paul’s Personal Religion. 🔒
  27. Chapter XIX. The Prophet. 🔒
  28. Chapter XX. The Promise. 🔒
  29. Chapter XXI. The Claim. 🔒
  30. Chapter XXII. The Layman’s Theology. 🔒

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