The Boyhood Consciousness Of Christ PDF Download

Excerpt from The Boyhood Consciousness of Christ: A Critical Examination of Luke II. 49 Ever since Christianity presented itself for acceptance by mankind, questions of Christology have held a foremost place in religious research and discussion, and necessarily so, since the native and personality of the Author of a religion claiming to be ecumenical and exclusive compel the attentive study of men interested in religious thought and life. The present generation has not been an exception in regard to the importance attached to these fundamental questions. Rather, in this respect it has set a new highwater mark. For while the fifth century is generally regarded as the golden age of christological controversy, yet, from the point of view of the number and variety of the scholars interested and of the individuality and diversity of the results reached, the last half century has had no parallel in the history of Christianity. In these questions of Christology the ultimate determinant, the final test to which every student must come, is Christ's own mind as expressed in His words and in His manner of acting; everything that He says or does, either directly or indirectly to reveal His self-consciousness, is of the first importance; whatever be the method pursued in attempting a solution of a christological problem, one cannot evade the query, What did He say about Himself? Then, closely connected with the questions of His self-consciousness is that of its origin. When and how did it begin? Did He possess it from His earliest years? Or was there for Him, as for every normal child, a gradual unfolding of reason and of the consciousness of His relation to God? Or was it only in mature manhood, when on the threshold of His public career, that the consciousness of His mission and all that it implied flashed upon Him? Or was its coming rather like that of dawning day, at first dim, then steadily growing into fulness of light and culminating in the brilliant clarity of the noonday? 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.