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The Christian Faith Under Modern Searchlights

by William Hallock Johnson

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Chapter VI

The Christian Faith and Biblical Criticism
The value and significance of Biblical Criticism200
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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