Excerpt from Jesus and Paul: Lectures Given at Manchester College, Oxford, for the Winter Term, 1920

The following course of lectures was delivered at Manchester College, Oxford, during the Hilary (mid winter) term, 1920. Previous engagements had com pelled the lecturer to reduce the period of his stay from the full year originally proposed to these relatively nar row limits. This drew from Principal Jacks the sugges tion that the topic be made comprehensive, in order to afford a completer survey of the lecturer' s understand ing of New Testament Literature. With this design in view a subject was chosen which has of late received the attention of many scholars, but which seemed capa ble of a mode of treatment emphasizing the relation of growth rather than that of mere apposition or contrast. The transition from the gospel of Jesus to the gospel of Paul might thus be studied in a way to make it a means of relating the whole group of writings of the New Testament canon to the general movement of reli gions thought and life from which they sprang.

The course as originally given contained but eight lectures. At its conclusion the lecturer was asked to take part in the Oxford Summer School of Theolog in the ensuing August, with the suggestion that the closing lecture of the original course (on the J ohanmne Literature) should be expanded into two for this pur pose. The suggestion was adopted, and the Lectures as printed are therefore nine in number, the added ma terisl of Lectures VIII and IX being inclosed in U.

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