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| Contents | | |
| | Part One | |
| | EARLY CHRISTIANITY | |
| | Augustus Caesar and the Birth of Christ | 3 |
| | The Historicity of Christ | 11 |
| | "Born of a Womam" | 22 |
| | Notes on Some Comments on "Born of a woman" | 33 |
| | Did Jesus have Brothers and Sisters? | 40 |
| | Christ's Kindom of God | 65 |
| | The Shroud of Turin And the Biblical Evidence | 74 |
| | The Time of Christ's Second Comingin the New Testament | 81 |
| | St. Thomas and India | 94 |
| | The friends of Paul - Luke and Mark | 97 |
| | Did the Evangelist Luke Write Acts of the Apostles? | 115 |
| | Part Two | |
| | "RAISED FROM THE DEAD" | |
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| | Introduction : The Heart of the Problem | 135 |
| | Section I
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| 1 | The Significance of the Earliest Evidence | 136 |
| 2 | The Reports of Appearances In the Gospels | 141 |
| 3 | How Far are the Gospels credible? | 143 |
| 4 | The Evidence of Paul | 154 |
| 5 | Paul's Preconceptions | 163 |
| 6 | The First Hurdle from Non- Pauline Scripture | 167 |
| 7 | The Credibility of Paul as against Acts | 170 |
| 8 | The Second and last Hurdle: | |
| | (a) Was an Empty Tomb Discovered? | 181 |
| | (b) Was Joseph of Arimathaea Real? | 197 |
| | (c) Was Jesus Tomb Known? | 212 |
| 9 | Our Pailine Conclusions | 228 |
| | Section II
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| 1 | The Nature of the Appearances and some Clues From Sri Aurobndo | 238 |
| 2 | The Natureof the New Body in the light of Sri Aurobindo's Yogic Knowledge | 243 |
| 3 | The Pauline resurrection Seen Through Sri Aurobindo's Eyes | 2477 |
| 4 | Pauline Mysticism and the lead from it | 250 |
| 5 | The question of Immortality before the Resurrection | 253 |
| 6 | The true Sense of Resurrection in Paul | 259 |
| 7 | The Pauline Pneuma- Signpost to thesolution of our Problem | 266 |
| 8 | The Upshot of our Inquiry | 271 |
