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The historical Jesus. The New Testament Gospels and the quest of the historical Jesus ; Nonbiblical sources about Jesus ; Aspects of the life of Jesus ; Aspects of Jesus' teaching ; Summary -- Jesus Christ in early Christianity. Belief in the resurrection of Jesus ; Jesus as the resurrected Messiah, Son of God (and Lord) ; Jesus as the coming heavenly redeemer (Son of Man) ; Jesus Christ in the New Testament hymns ; Jesus Christ in the letter to the Hebrews ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Paul ; Jesus Christ and the Gospels ; Summary -- Jesus Christ in the great church. Jesus Christ in the thought of Ebionites, gnostics, and the earliest church fathers ; The Monarchians and Tertullian's defense of the Logos-Christ ; The Logos-Christ in the schools of Alexandria (Origen) and Antioch (Paul of Samosata) ; Jesus Christ in the Nicene Creed and in Athanasius ; The Councils of Constantinople and Ephesus ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Augustine ; The Chalcedonian Creed ; Jesus Christ in Western Monasticism ; Jesus Christ in Scholasticism ; Summary -- Jesus Christ in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. The Renaissance ; Jesus Christ in Martin Luther's thought ; Jesus Christ in the left wing of the Reformation ; Jesus Christ in John Calvin's thought ; The Catholic Reformation and Christian mysticism ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Ignatius Loyola ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Teresa of Avila ; Summary -- Jesus Christ in rationalism, pietism, and romanticism. The Enlightenment challenge to traditional Christian thought ; New views of history and the rise of Biblical criticism ; Rationalist views of Christ ; Continental pietism ; Jesus Christ in the thought of John Wesley ; Romanticism and history ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher ; Summary -- Jesus Christ in early nineteenth-century historical thought. Hegel and the idealist view of history ; Left-wing Hegelianism and the materialist view of history ; Positivism and history ; Evolution and history ; Jesus Christ in the thought of David Friedrich Strauss ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Ferdinand Christian Baur ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Ernest Renan ; Summary -- Jesus Christ in Protestant liberal historical thought. The historical criticism of sources ; Protestant liberalism ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Adolf Harnack ; The social gospel in the United States ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Shailer Mathews ; The history-of-religions school ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Wilhelm Bousset ; Summary -- Jesus Christ in early twentieth-century historical thought. Jesus Christ in the thought of Albert Schweitzer ; Jesus Christ in the thought of William Wrede ; Roman Catholic modernism ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Alfred Loisy ; American fundamentalism ; Jesus Christ in the thought of John Gresham Machen ; Summary -- Jesus Christ and the Bultmannians. The existentialists ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Martin Kahler ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Rudolf Bultmann ; Jesus Christ in the thought of Ernst Kasemann (the "New Quest") ; Summary -- Some current approaches to Jesus Christ. Redaction criticism ; The method of tracing trajectories ; Social historiography ; A crisis in the historical consciousness of the West? ; Structuralism ; Analytical psychology ; An attack on historical-critical scholarship from "within" ; Summary.