Table of Contents
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I His Names and Their Significance
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Importance of names in the Orient - The name isa ÿIsa - Its use in the quran Koran - El Messih - The Word of God - Spirit from God - The title of Prophet - Qualifications of a prophet - The apostles and their special titles - The derivation of the word isa ÿIsa - of Messih - The homelessness of Jesus - Why is He called the Word of God? - Two other epithets
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II The Koran Account of His Life, Death, and Translation
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Three difficulties at the outset because of the character of the quran Koran, its contradictions and its lack of chronological order - The Annunciation of Jesus - His birth - His miracles - His mission and message - His death, which is both affirmed and denied - His character as an apostle and prophet, including denial of His deity - The meagreness of the quran Koran account supplemented by tradition - Its authority among Moslems - Sources of Moslem tradition on the Christ - Their reliability.
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III Jesus Christ According to Tradition, from His Birth to His Public Ministry
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A translation of Eth-Thalabi's account, which is based on early traditions - The birth of Jesus - Gabriel as the messenger - Mary the sister of Aaron - Jesus speaks from the cradle - The departure of Mary and Jesus to Egypt - Jesus amazes His teacher at school - On the form and figure of Jesus - Concerning the signs and wonders wrought by His hand in His youth - The blind man and the lame man - The marriage of the ruler's son - Jesus and his playmates - He provides food miraculously - He raises a boy from the dead - Dyes garments various colours from one vat - Concerning the return of Mary and Jesus after the death of Herod - His precocity - His prayer for the sick.
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IV Jesus Christ According to Traditions, from His Public Ministry to His Second Coming
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The story of Jesus' disciples - Their names and their call - The special characteristics of Jesus and His miracles - How He created birds from clay - His miracles of healing - The raising of Lazarus - Of the widow's son - The daughter of the toll-gatherer - The raising of Shem, Noah's son - Of Ezra - His knowledge of secrets - His walking on the water - Other traditions concerning Jesus Christ - The story of the loaf - The sending down of the table - Different versions of the story - How Jesus was taken to heaven - The attempt to kill Jesus - The crucifixion of another in His stead - The Last Supper - The disciples asleep in the garden - The binding of Jesus - The death of Jesus, but not on the cross - The story of Mary Magdalene - The disciples are scattered to preach the Gospel - The ascension of Jesus - His return - His grave at Medina - A later account of the trial of Jesus.
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V The Person and Character of Jesus Christ
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Where the quran Koran falls short in its Christology - This negative as well as affirmative - Christ's deity and sonship denied - He is a mere man - The pre-existence of muhammad Mohammed affirmed; that of Jesus denied - Why Islam denies the Atonement - Modern antagonism in Egypt to Christian doctrine - Some puzzling questions put by Moslems - Seyyid Ameer ali ÿAli on the divinity of Christ - What Moslems admit and believe as regards the dignity and purity of Jesus - His titles of honour - His sinlessness - A remarkable tradition - Christ as the healer and worker of miracles - He is a living prophet and can intercede - Jesus Christ announced the coming of muhammad Mohammed - Other alleged prophecies in regard to Islam.
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VI His Teaching
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Meagreness of our sources - No direct quotations from the New Testament - Four references to its teaching - To whom did Jesus Christ come as a teacher - The Gospel according to Moslems - Its corruption by the apostles, especially Paul - The story of Habib the carpenter - Later tradition on the teaching of Jesus - Certain of His sayings - Jesus Christ according to the poets - The parable of the Publican and the Pharisee - The gentleness of Jesus - Words of Jesus which are attributed to muhammad Mohammed - The Lord's Prayer - Conclusion.
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VII Jesus Christ Supplanted by Mohammed
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Jesus Christ eclipsed - muhammad Mohammed in the foreground; Jesus Christ in the background - This distinguishes Islam from all other religions - In what sense is muhammad Mohammed the Moslem Christ - His two hundred and one titles of honour - Prayer for muhammad Mohammed - The later biographies of muhammad Mohammed a caricature of the Christ - Testimony of René Basset and Dr. Koelle - muhammad Mohammed's journey to heaven - How muhammad Mohammed resembled Jesus in his birth, his life, his miracles, his death - Isaiah's prophecy of muhammad Mohammed - muhammad Mohammed the supplanter - Christmas, or the birthday of muhammad Mohammed; Friday or Sunday - The name Messiah as applied to muhammad Mohammed in current literature, in the Gospel of Barnabas - Islam anti-Christian - Islam in no sense a preparation for Christianity - Christ the centre of our religion - What Moslems think of Him.
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VIII How to Preach Christ to Moslems Who Know Jesus
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Why we should do it - The Moslem world needs Jesus Christ - Testimony of Dr. James S. Dennis - Difficulties do not remove responsibility - Islam itself a witness to their need of the Christ - The fact of the Christ a point of vital contact with Moslems - We must become Moslems to the Moslem - The nearest way to the Moslem heart - The message of the Cross - What think ye of the Christ-The strength of Islam overestimated - Back to muhammad Mohammed and away from tradition - The revival of Islam - What Christianity will gain by preaching to Moslems - A stronger grip on the fundamentals - A theology based on experience - A conviction that Unitarianism is not Christianity - The Nicene Creed.
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