Jesus The Christ In The Light Of Psychology

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In this groundbreaking work, the author explores the intersection between psychology and religion, using the figure of Jesus Christ as a case study. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of both fields, the author offers a compelling analysis of the ways in which religious beliefs and psychological processes interact. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology, Vol. 2 Stanton collects 400 references in the New Testament to as many passages in the Old, which together he thinks define the entire career Of the Messiah from his preexistence in heaven to his resumption of a place in the Trinity at God's right hand after the Resurrection. Some of these are very explicit in detail. If the Old Testament passages are prescriptions they leave little room for freedom. His life had been written beforehand, and Jesus in assuming Messianity had Simply to assemble the specifications from their many places and contexts and order his life with fidelity to these old oracles. From this point of View we Should have to regard him as a studious compiler, diligently seeking cues and conscientiously following them as his rule of life. We might conceive that at some stage he realized how many circumstances in his past conformed to these rubrics, and from that point he took his life in hand to make the rest of it conform more perfectly. Thus many a savage ruler is moulded by prescriptions that define all his Tun and H aben, his licet and non licet, and later accepts for himself these taboos and exacting customs that may make a king's life a burden with constant fear of transgression. Some of these requirements happily are very generic, but they range from the most trivial points of etiquette to fundamentals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology, Vol. 1 Inchapteriii, I have tried toset forth with noreservethechiefnega tive views of our day, which are Of the greatest interest and significance. Thwe I believe have on the whole done or at last will do the cause of Christ in the world more good than harm. They have tended to demolish false conceptions, both liberal and orthodox, and have been hard on the attenu ated, synoptic Jesus that survived the processes Of the higher criticism, as they have upon the literal God-man of the Church. I believe in the his torical Jesus, but I have tried to show how even the Church can get on, if it should ever have to do so, without him, and that this might possibly ultimately make for greater spirituality. The true Christ is pmt in hu manheartsto-day andnotmerelyin theancientandveryimperfect annals of incompetent recorders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.