Evidences of Christianity

Fiction & Literature, Classics, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

• Author: William Paley
• ISBN: 1230000269226
• Publisher: The Perfect Library
• Publication: September 19, 2014
• Language: English

Evidences of Christianity
William Paley, english clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian (1743-1805)

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Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- DEDICATION
-03- PREPARATORY CONSIDERATIONS
-04- PART I. OF THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY
-05- CHAPTER I. EVIDENCE OF THE SUFFERING OF THE FIRST PROPAGATORS OF
-06- CHAPTER II. EVIDENCE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF THE FIRST PROPAGATORS OF CHRISTIANITY, FROM PROFANE TESTIMONY
-07- CHAPTER III. INDIRECT EVIDENCE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF THE FIRST PROPAGATORS OF CHRISTIANITY
-08- CHAPTER IV. DIRECT EVIDENCE OF THE SAME
-09- CHAPTER V. OBSERVATIONS UPON THE PRECEDING EVIDENCE
-10- CHAPTER VI. THAT THE STORY FOR WHICH THE FIRST PROPAGATORS OF CHRISTIANITY SUFFERED WAS MIRACULOUS
-11- CHAPTER VII. THAT IT WAS, IN THE MAIN, THE STORY WHICH WE HAVE NOW PROVED BY INDIRECT CONSIDERATIONS
-12- CHAPTER VIII. THE SAME PROVED FROM THE AUTHORITY OF OUR HISTORICAL SCRIPTURES
-13- CHAPTER IX. OF THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE HISTORICAL SCRIPTURES, IN ELEVEN SECTIONS
-14- CHAPTER X. RECAPITULATION
-15- OF THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY
-16- PART II. OF THE AUXILIARY EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY
-17- CHAPTER I. PROPHECY
-18- CHAPTER II. THE MORALITY OF THE GOSPEL
-19- CHAPTER III. THE CANDOUR OF THE WRITERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
-20- CHAPTER IV. IDENTITY OF CHRIST'S CHARACTER
-21- CHAPTER V. ORIGINALITY OF OUR SAVIOUR'S CHARACTER
-22- CHAPTER VI. CONFORMITY OF THE FACTS OCCASIONALLY MENTIONED
-23- CHAPTER VII. UNDESIGNED COINCIDENCES
-24- CHAPTER VIII. OF THE HISTORY OF THE RESURRECTION
-25- CHAPTER IX. THE PROPAGATION OF CHRISTIANITY
-26- PART III. A BRIEF CONSIDERATION OF SOME POPULAR OBJECTIONS
-27- CHAPTER I. THE DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN THE SEVERAL GOSPELS
-28- CHAPTER II. ERRONEOUS OPINIONS IMPUTED TO THE APOSTLES
-29- CHAPTER III. THE CONNEXION OF CHRISTIANITY WITH THE JEWISH HISTORY
-30- CHAPTER IV. REJECTION OF CHRISTIANITY
-31- CHAPTER V. THAT THE CHRISTIAN MIRACLES ARE NOT RECITED
-32- CHAPTER VI. WANT OF UNIVERSALITY IN THE KNOWLEDGE AND RECEPTION OF CHRISTIANITY
-33- CHAPTER VII. THE SUPPOSED EFFECTS OF CHRISTIANITY
-34- CHAPTER VIII. THE CONCLUSION