Excerpt from The Character of Jesus: Forbidding His Possible Classification With Men In this little volume we reprint, with consent of the Author, the tenth chapter of his Treatise, Nature and the Supernatural.
This chapter, taken as a sketch of the self-evidencing, superhuman character of Christ, has attracted much attention; and we have been solicited, many times over, in the various notices and reviews of the book, as well as by private readers; to give it to the public by itself. This, too; we do the more readily, that it makes a complete whole by itself, and is in a style to be read by multitudes who probably will not undertake to master the more elaborate and difficult argument, of which it is only a subordinate member. In this little volume we reprint, with consent of the Author, the tenth chapter of his Treatise, Nature and the Supernatural.
This chapter, taken as a sketch of the self-evidencing, superhuman character of Christ, has attracted much attention; and we have been solicited, many times over, in the various notices and reviews of the book, as well as by private readers; to give it to the public by itself. This, too; we do the more readily, that it makes a complete whole by itself, and is in a style to be read by multitudes who probably will not undertake to master the more elaborate and difficult argument, of which it is only a subordinate member.
Horace Bushnell was an American Congregational clergyman and theologian. Bushnell was a Yankee born in the village of Bantam, township of Litchfield, Connecticut.
He graduated at Yale in 1827, was literary editor of the New York Journal of Commerce from 1828–1829, and in 1829 became a tutor at Yale. Here he initially studied law, but in 1831 he entered the theology department of Yale College.
In May, 1833 Bushnell was ordained pastor of the North Congregational church in Hartford, Connecticut, where he remained until 1859, when due to extended poor health he resigned his pastorate. Thereafter he held no appointed office, but, until his death at Hartford in 1876, he was a prolific author and occasionally preached.
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