Excerpt from The Incarnate Saviour: A Life of Jesus Christ

In the preface to the first edition of this little book I used the following words: - "Should this book meet with any acceptance, I hope at some future date to follow it with another on the 'Theology of Christ.' Many who in this age of unsettled opinions are unable to acquiesce in traditional systems, profess themselves ready to accept a theology which can fairly be made out from the life and teachings of Christ, apart from all other writings; and such might welcome an honest attempt to discover this." Circumstances prevented the fulfilment of this intention. But since then, as is well known, the subject has been pursued with great zest and ability. Unfortunately, as it seems to me, the main object of most books in which the study has been pursued, has been to disengage from the Gospels a purer Christianity than that which is presented in the New Testament as a whole. In other words, an attempt has been made to invalidate the teaching of the apostles. What I proposed was an attempt to show that the germs of the whole teaching of the Epistles were to be found in the words and works of Christ, taken as we find them in the four Gospels.

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