I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
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Table of Contents
| Book one : Right and wrong as a clue to the meaning of the universe. | ||
| The law of human nature | ||
| Some objections | ||
| The reality of the law | ||
| What lies behind the law | ||
| We have cause to be uneasy | ||
| Book two : What Christians believe. | ||
| The rival conceptions of God | ||
| The invasion | ||
| The shocking alternative | ||
| The perfect penitent | ||
| The practical conclusion | ||
| Book three : Christian behaviour. | ||
| The three parts of morality | ||
| The "cardinal virtues" | ||
| Social morality | ||
| Morality and psychoanalysis | ||
| Sexual morality | ||
| Christian marriage | ||
| Forgiveness | ||
| The great sin | ||
| Charity | ||
| Hope | ||
| Faith | ||
| Faith | ||
| Book four : Beyond personality : or first steps in the doctrine of the Trinity. | ||
| Making and begetting | ||
| The three-personal God | ||
| Time and beyond time | ||
| Good infection | ||
| The obstinate toy soldiers | ||
| Two notes | ||
| Let's pretend | ||
| Is Christianity hard or easy? | ||
| Counting the cost | ||
| Nice people or new men | ||
| The new men |
Edition Notes
"Complete and unabridged."
Reprint. Previously published: New York : Macmillan, 1952.
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