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JESUS AND CHRISTIANITY

IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

JESUS & CHRISTIANITY

IN THE

TWENTIETH CENTURY

BY

ALFRED HALL, M.A.

LONDON

5 ESSEX STREET, STRAND, W.C.

1915

THE LINDSEY PRESS

First Edition, December, 1915.

PRINTED BY ELSOM AND CO.
MARKET PLACE, HULL

PREFACE

IN a short volume of this character the treatment of such a large subject as Christianity is necessarily restricted. My task, however, has been considerably lightened because many important questions are dealt with in other volumes of this series of 'Handbooks of Religion.' It has been my object to describe clearly the various portraits which have been drawn of Jesus, and to give the chief features of the forms of Christianity which exist in the Twentieth Century.

I have to acknowledge my indebtedness to Dr. J. Estlin Carpenter, who made some important suggestions towards one chapter which was beset with special difficulty, and to my brother, the Rev. William C. Hall, of Northampton, who went carefully through the manuscript. My thanks are also due to Dr. Charles Hargrove, who read the proofs. His ripe scholarship and intimate acquaintance with the forms of Christianity have furnished me with criticisms of great value. Needless to say, I alone am entirely responsible for the volume as it stands.

Newcastle-on-Tyne,
October, 1915.

A. H.

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