Life of Jesus (Renan)

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 inheritance 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