Excerpt from The Christ of the Gospels and the Christ of Modern Criticism: Lectures on M. Renan's Vie De JésusSome friends in Rome, knowing what I was about, asked me to read the lectures; and they were read there to successive companies of friends, chiey clerical American, Anglican, and scotch-presbyte rian - whose intelligent criticism I recall with pleasure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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