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PRELIMINARY, GENERAL VIEWS.

Record of Christ's Teaching.--No formal Account of it prepared.--Mind of Christ, sole Fountain of the Truths announced in the Gospels.--Summary of His Teaching.--A universal spiritual reign of God on Earth.--"Kingdom of Heaven," etc., etc., etc. 91

THE SOUL.
SECTION I.--REALITY AND GREATNESS OF THE SOUL.

Ignorance of Matter and Spirit.--Idea of the Soul Intuitional.--Universal Indifference to the Soul.--Jesus reveals it.--No formal proof of it.--His Teaching based on it.--Origin of the Soul.--Attributes.--Gospels teach its unutterable Worth.--Determines Man's Place in the Scale of Being 104

SECTION II.--THE SOUL'S ACCOUNTABILITY AND IMMORTALITY.

Accountability belongs to the Rational and Moral Nature.--Activity, Unconscious, Instinctive, Intelligent, and Voluntary.--Ground of Responsibility.--The Doctrine in Christ's Teaching.--Last Judgment.--Immateriality and Immortality.--Moral Conditions of Life.--Perdition of the Soul.--Sin and Death.--Element of Eternal Life.--"Life and Immortality brought to light by the Gospel." 112

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The Christ of History: An Argument Grounded in the Facts of His

John Young's invaluable historical account of early Christianity and the ancient church.

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