CHAPTER V.

THE ASCENSION.

§ 141. [The last commands and promises of Jesus] 745
142. [The so-called ascension considered as a supernatural and as a natural event] 749
143. [Insufficiency of the narratives of the ascension. Mythical conception of those narratives] 752

CONCLUDING DISSERTATION.

THE DOGMATIC IMPORT OF THE LIFE OF JESUS.

§ 144. [Necessary transition from criticism to dogma] 757
145. [The Christology of the orthodox system] 758
146. [Objections to the Christology of the church] 764
147. [The Christology of rationalism] 767
148. [The eclectic Christology of Schleiermacher] 768
149. [Christology interpreted symbolically. Kant. De Wette] 773
150. [The speculative Christology] 777
151. [Last dilemma] 778
152. [Relation of the critical and speculative theology to the church] 781

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THE LIFE OF JESUS.

INTRODUCTION.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MYTHICAL POINT OF VIEW IN RELATION TO THE GOSPEL HISTORIES.