Excerpt from Essays on the Supernatural Origin of Christianity: With Special Reference to the Theories of Renan, Strauss, and the Tübingen SchoolAlthough this volume does not claim the charac ter of a complete treatise, yet the Essays which com pose it form a connected whole and deal with the most important aspects of the general theme under which they are placed. That theme is the origin of the religion of Christ - whether it be from heaven or of men. The validity of the distinction between the Natural and the Supernatural is assumed, and some thing is done in various parts of the work - for exam ple, in the Essay on Miracles - to elucidate this dis tinction. The fact of the constant presence and agency of God in Nature is held to be perfectly con sistent with the proposition that the world is a reality distinct from Him.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.