Life of Jesus

Life of Jesus  (1863)  by Ernest Renan

Dedication→

Originally published as Vie de Jésus in French in 1863, this book later became Volume 1 of the eight-volume Histoire des origines du Christianisme (The History and Origins of Christianity), 1866-1881.

Contents

• Dedication: To the pure Soul of my sister Henriette
• Introduction: In which the sources of this history are principally treated
• Chapter 1: Place of Jesus in the history of the world
• Chapter 2: Infancy and youth of Jesus, his first impressions
• Chapter 3: Education of Jesus
• Chapter 4: The order of thought which surrounded the development of Jesus
• Chapter 5: The first sayings of Jesus. The ideas of a divine father and of a purer religion. First disciples
• Chapter 6: John the Baptist. Visit of Jesus to John, and his abode in the desert of Judea. Adoption of the baptism of John
• Chapter 7: Development of the ideas of Jesus respecting the Kingdom of God
• Chapter 8: Jesus at Capernaum
• Chapter 9: The disciples of Jesus
• Chapter 10: The preaching on the lake
• Chapter 11: The Kingdom of God conceived as the ingeritance of the Poor
• Chapter 12: Embassy from John in prison to Jesus. Death of John. Relation of his school with that of Jesus
• Chapter 13: First attempts on Jerusalem
• Chapter 14: Intercourse of Jesus with the Pagans and the Samaritans
• Chapter 15: Commencement of the legends concerning Jesus. His own idea of his supernatural character
• Chapter 16: Miracles
• Chapter 17: Definitive form of the ideas of Jesus respecting the Kingdom of God
• Chapter 18: Institutions of Jesus
• Chapter 19: Increasing progression of enthusiasm and of exaltation
• Chapter 20: Opposition to Jesus
• Chapter 21: Last journey of Jesus to Jerusalem
• Chapter 22: Machinations of the enemies of Jesus
• Chapter 23: Last week of Jesus
• Chapter 24: Arrest and trial of Jesus
• Chapter 25: Death of Jesus
• Chapter 26: Jesus in the tomb
• Chapter 27: Fate of the enemies of Jesus
• Chapter 28: Essential character of the work of Jesus

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.