Chapter VI
| The Christian Faith and Biblical Criticism | |
| The value and significance of Biblical Criticism | 200 |
| Relation between the Old Testament and the New Testament | 201 |
| I. | The Pauline Epistles | 203 |
| The Tübingen view and later criticism | 204 |
| The Epistle to the Ephesians | 204 |
| II. | The Acts of the Apostles | 205 |
| Evidences of trustworthiness | 206 |
| Harnack on the Lukan authorship | 208 |
| Harnack and Koch on the date | 210 |
| Did Luke use Josephus? | 213 |
| III. | The Synoptic Problem | 216 |
| The Two-Document theory | 217 |
| Modifications of the theory by the assumption: | |
| (1) of a larger dependence on oral tradition | 219 |
| (2) of the use of Q by Mark | 220 |
| (3) of different editions of Mark | 220 |
| “Secondary elements” in Mark | 221 |
| Bearing of Harnack’s early dating of the Lukan writings | 225 |
| The inter-Synoptic differences | 226 |
| IV. | The Johannine Problem | 227 |
| Evidence for Apostolic authorship | 228 |
| Rejection of Apostolic authorship on the assumption: | |
| (1) that John never lived at Ephesus | 230 |
| (2) that there were two Johns at Ephesus | 232 |
| The partition theory | 234 |
| The internal evidence: style and contents of the Fourth Gospel | 234 |
| Relation to the Synoptic Gospels as supplementary, explanatory and independent | 236 |
| Concluding remarks | 242 |
| Bibliography of Recent Important Works | 244 |
| Index | 249 |
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