Author: Stanley Hall
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-06-17
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781330351741
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Excerpt from Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology, Vol. 1 From Paul down to the end of the Scholastic period, Christological problems were treated theologically. Scotists and Thomists alike especially reserved most questions in this field from treatment by reason as themes of faith and mystic intuition alone. With the rise of Protestantism and the systems of modern philosophy, speculative thought began to deal freely with the person, work and words of Jesus, a movement that culminated in Hegel and his left-wing followers. In the ebb of this movement, and to no small extent made feasible and even stimulated by it, came the great historico-critical movement best marked by the Tubingen School. As a result of these studies which subjected the New Testament texts to a new treatment as free as that applied to other ancient documents, and which brought to bear the same methods that had given the world new histories of Greece and Rome, and by utilizing the copious newly unearthed archaeological data, the synoptic Jesus became the centre of interest. He was, how-t ever, divested of his supernatural attributes and reduced to the dimensions ofl a great religious teacher and reformer and a purely human paragon of virtue. I These researches together constitute one of the greatest triumphs of modern scholarship and intellectual acumen and have shed a flood of new light along all the way of Jesus, from the manger to the entombment. The achievements of these methods, great and enduring as they are, seem to be essentially finished, and only details and further syntheses of data already disclosed yet remain. The inevitable next step with all this wealth of material must be psychological. It is this step that the author attempts to take in this volume. Profoundly realizing his own incompetence to do justice to his theme, he regards himself nevertheless, as a pioneer in a new domain in which he is certain to be followed by many others, and is convinced that the psychological Jesus Christ is the true and living Christ of the present and of the future. He is the spiritual Christ of the Resurrection whom alone Paul knew and proclaimed, although he is here described in modern terms, and it is this that now chiefly matters rather than what an historical person was or did in Palestine, two thousand years ago. Now that the old materialistic and forensic views of the vicarious atonement are transcended, even the historicity of Jesus becomes somewhat less vitally significant than it was once thought to be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
