Author : Everett Falconer Harrison
Release : 1968
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Book Synopsis A Short Life of Christ by : Everett Falconer Harrison

Download or read book A Short Life of Christ written by Everett Falconer Harrison. This book was released on 1968. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our day scholars are no longer attempting to write a full-length life of Christ. They recognize that the Gospels are not biographies in the traditional sense of the word, nor were they intended to be. These accounts are rather what the titles indicate--they are Gospels. To use Mark's phrase, they are accounts of the beginning of the gospel. Their authors had no intention of providing the necessary ingredients for a "scientific" history of Jesus of Nazareth. At the same time, they do provide historical records; gospel and history cannot be separated. Less exhaustive than Edersheim's classic Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Everett Harrison's Shrot Life of Christ responds to the contemporary awareness of the scriptural record as both historical and evangelistic, and is written out of the conviction that the Christ encountered today by believing individuals, and by Christian society, is identical with the Christ who confronts us in history. Here, then, is a life of Christ for both layman and preacher, student and specialist. Bibliographies at the end of each chapter will be useful in further study. The general purpose of this book is to provide a broad understanding of the background and message of the New Testament. It opens with chapters on the time between the Old and New Testaments, giving information on history, institutions, and literature, and goes on to discuss the language of the New Testament, the text and its transmission, the canon, and the individual books of the New Testament. For each of the New Testament books Dr. Harrison provides a helpful outline and introduces the reader to a greater understanding of the text by a discussion of such matters as purpose, background, date, authorship, characteristics or principal concepts, taking into full account the most significant findings and interpretations of recent scholars. The author also provides general essays on the Gospels and on the Epistles. Special bibliographies are given for each chapter, and a selected bibliography on New Testament Introduction for the book as a whole. Written by one who has taught the New Testament for many years, who has a thorough understanding of the field, and who writes with ease and clarity, this basic and comprehensive Introduction is a valuable aid to the study of the Scriptures, both in school and in church. -Publisher