Virgin Birth Research Articles

Hellenism and Christianity

WITH the exception of two essays on “Bacchylides” and on “The Greek Anthology,” all the essays in this volume deal with some aspect or other of the relationship of Christianity to the world, ancient or modern. Touching the ancient world, there are two essays on the earliest contacts of Christianity and Paganism, and two especially delightful ones on St. Augustine. The essays on the modern world all revolve around the conflict between our “rationalistic” civilisation and religious experience as focussed by the life and teaching of Christ. The author's limpid style makes it a pure pleasure to read his arguments, and his complete candour should secure for them respectful consideration even from those who stand intellectually aloof from theology. A good example of his method, on a non-controversial topic, is the short essay on “Dirt,” in which he works out in a most interesting way the polarity of our feelings towards objects, like our bodies and sex, which we treat as at once sacred and unclean. Of miracles he holds that their possibility cannot be scientifically disproved, but at the same time he regards them as altogether “peripheral” in Christian belief, and he finds the evidence both for the Virgin Birth and for the Bodily Resurrection of Christ too uncertain to build the edifice of faith upon them. Hellenism and Christianity. By Edwyn Bevan. Pp. 275. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1921.) 12s. 6d. net.

Book Review: The Historical Evidence for the Virgin Birth

Book Review: The Historical Evidence for the Virgin Birth

The Quest for Truth (Swarthmore Lecture)

“THE Quest for Truth” is a lecture given to the Society of Friends, of which the late Prof. Silvanus Thompson was a member; but it will be helpful to all who, like genuine students of science, put truth in the first place. Of that community any distinctive opinions are mentioned only in the latter part, and here an orthodox Churchman, though he could not admit that the Council of Nicaea decided “person” and “substance” to be the same, for the terms there used were the more adequate “hypostasis,” and “ousia,” and may think Prof. Thompson failed to apprehend the full significance of the “Virgin Birth,” will welcome the catholicity of his creed. The earlier and larger part of the lecture deals with the methods and spirit demanded in all who undertake so toilsome a pilgrimage. Here is made clear the distinction between categorical and analogical truth, the moral obligation of truth-speaking, the evils consequent on neglecting it, and those which arise from the misuse or misunderstanding of words, from over-respect for authority, from carelessness and impatience in research, and other weaknesses of human nature-evils so patent at the present day in politics, in religion, sometimes even in science.

The Virgin Birth of Jesus: A Critical Examination of the Gospel-Narratives of the Nativity and Other New Testament and Early Christian Evidence, and the Alleged Influence of Heathen Ideas

The Virgin Birth of Jesus: A Critical Examination of the Gospel-Narratives of the Nativity and Other New Testament and Early Christian Evidence, and the Alleged Influence of Heathen Ideas

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:THE NESTORIAN MONUMENT IN CHINA: The Nestorian Monument in China. By P. Y. Saeki.THE HISTORY OF THE BASEL MISSION: Geschichte Der Basler Mission 1815–1915. I. Band: Die Heimatgeschichte der Basler Mission. Von Wilhelm Schlatter.THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: The Centennial History of the American Bible Society. By Henry Otis Dwight, LL.D.AN AFRICAN ON THE NATIVES' LAND ACT: Native Life in South Africa: Before and since the European War and the Boer Rebellion. By Sol. T. Plaatje.THE WORLD AND THE GOSPEL: The World and the Gospec. By J. H. Oldham.A HINDU APOLOGIA: HINDUISM, The World‐Ideal. Harendranath Maitra. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton.BAHAISM AND ITS CLAIMS: Bahaism and its Claims. By Samuel Graham Wilson, D.D.TWO BOOKS ON INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA: In the Wake of the War Canoe. By Archdeacon W. H. Collison. Introduction by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe.TWO BOOKS ON INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA: The Myths of the North American Indians. By Lewis Spence, F.R.A.I.CONCERNING JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY: The Cradle of Christianity, or some Account of the Times of Christ. By S. P. T. Prideaux. Foreword by the Rev. John VaughanCONCERNING JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY: Through the Jews to God, A Challenge. By S. C. Kirkpatrick.CONCERNING JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY: Seminary Addresses and Other Papers. By S. Schechter.CONCERNING JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY: The Virgin Birth of Jesue, A Critical Examination of the Gospel‐Narratives of the Nativity, and Other new Testament and Early Christian Evidence, and the Alleged Influence of Heathen Ideas. By G. H. Box, Lecturer in Rabbinical Hebrew. Foreword by The Bishop of London.HOW TO LEARN A LANGUAGE: How to Learn a Language: An Exposition of the Phonetic Inductive Method for Foreign Resident Students. By Thomas F. Cummings, D.DROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONS IN THE FAR EAST: Les Missions De Chine Et Du Japon. By J. M. Planchet, C.M.AS OTHERS SEE US: The Most Vital Mission Problem of the Day. By Frederick Schwager, S.V.D. Translated by Agatho Rolf, O.M.Cap.

The Four Women in St. Matthew's Genealogy of Christ

RECENT discussion of the Virgin Birth has renewed interest in the genealogies of Christ; and one of the questions that have been reopened is the significance of the exceptional mention of the four women in Matthew's genealogy. Zahn, for example, in his Introduction and Commentary on Matthew has advocated the view suggested by earlier writers that the aim of the reference to these women is to connect their history with an attack on the Virgin Birth that had been made even before the composition of our First Gospel. As his view has largely influenced the most recent and representative British, French, and German discussions, it seems worth while to examine it critically; and if it should appear not to be tenable, to suggest another theory. The fundamental questions are whether the mention of the women is made with a dogmatic interest of the Evangelist in Christ's salvation of sinners; or with an apologetic interest in defending the Virgin Birth; or with an apologetic interest in a mere general problem of the Apostolic Age, revealed in a general tendency of his gospel as a whole. Ordinarily the purpose of the Evangelist is made uncertain by confusing these distinct aims ; and the confusion is occasioned by the several characters and histories of the four ancestresses.

Matthew and the Virgin Birth

Matthew and the Virgin Birth

The Virgin Birth of Our Lord

The Virgin Birth of Our Lord

Recent Discussions on the Virgin Birth of ChristFreedom in the Church; Or the Doctrine of Christ. Alexander V. G. AllenThe Birth and Infancy of Jesus Christ According to the Gospel Narratives. Louis Matthews SweetThe Virgin Birth. James OrrThe Incarnation and Recent Criticism. R. J. CookeThe Virgin Birth. Richard H. Grützmacher

Recent Discussions on the Virgin Birth of ChristFreedom in the Church; Or the Doctrine of Christ. Alexander V. G. AllenThe Birth and Infancy of Jesus Christ According to the Gospel Narratives. Louis Matthews SweetThe Virgin Birth. James OrrThe Incarnation and Recent Criticism. R. J. CookeThe Virgin Birth. Richard H. Grützmacher

The Virgin Birth of Our Lord

Previous articleNext article FreeThe Virgin Birth of Our LordCharles Augustus BriggsCharles Augustus Briggs Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 12, Number 2Apr., 1908 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/478745 Views: 696Total views on this site Journal History This article was published in The American Journal of Theology (1897-1920), which is continued by The Journal of Religion (1921-present). PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Book Review: VII. New Testament: The Virgin Birth of Christ

Book Review: VII. New Testament: The Virgin Birth of Christ

ST. MARK'S WITNESS TO THE VIRGIN BIRTH

ST. MARK'S WITNESS TO THE VIRGIN BIRTH VINCENT MCNABB VINCENT MCNABB Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume os-VIII, Issue 31, April 1907, Pages 448–450, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/os-VIII.31.448 Published: 01 April 1907

The Virgin Birth of the Son Immanuel

Previous articleNext article FreeThe Virgin Birth of the Son ImmanuelTheodore Gerald SoaresTheodore Gerald Soares Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 23, Number 6Jun., 1904 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/473407 Views: 123 Journal History This article was published in The Biblical World (1893-1920), which is continued by The American Journal of Theology (1897-1920). PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Virgin Birth of Christ

The Virgin Birth of Christ

The Virgin Birth of Jesus

Previous articleNext article FreeCurrent LiteratureThe Virgin Birth of JesusPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 21, Number 5May, 1903 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/473191 Views: 41 Journal History This article was published in The Biblical World (1893-1920), which is continued by The American Journal of Theology (1897-1920). PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.