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The Man of Galilee

Chapter 2: Prefatory.
By Atticus G. Haygood
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A series of reflective lectures investigates whether the gospel portraits represent a real historical person and then analyzes that figure’s moral character, methods, and claims. Rejecting appeals to inspiration or miracles as necessary proofs, the writer examines authorship questions, myth theories, and the Jewish cultural setting, argues for the uniqueness and ethical perfection of the portrayed figure, surveys his teaching style and grand purposes, and considers his relationship to sin, religious institutions, and humanity. The final chapters treat the universal reach of his appeal and the grounds for affirming his spiritual significance.

Prefatory.

Decatur, Ga., April 9, 1889.

My Dear Lundy:

You and many others of my students at Emory of the years 1876–1884 have often asked me to put into permanent form the thoughts concerning “The Man of Galilee”—“Jesus of Nazareth”—I brought before you when we were together at the old college in Oxford. In this little book I have had the boys in mind all the way through, as if they were before me in my lecture-room in “Seney Hall.” Many times the very faces of the boys seemed to be about me as I have written, and I could almost hear them ask me questions as they used to do.

Scattered about the world now—not a few of them in distant mission fields—my heart follows them every one, and these pages, which would never have appeared but for them, bear them the assurance of an interest in them that can never die.

Your friend,

Atticus G. Haygood.

The Rev. Lundy H. Harris,

Professor in Emory College, Oxford, Ga.