or to minimise the cardinal and creative significance
of His personality for the beliefs which are associ-
ated with His name. Another is to confine His
religion to a literal, historical reproduction of what
He said and did on earth, identifying Him with some
eschatological or humanitarian propaganda of His
own age. Such methods, by minimising or exagger-
ating the historical significance of Jesus, are untrue
to the standpoint of religious faith from which the
four gospels are written, faith in the living Lord who
said, according to the Fourth ( xvii. 26), I have
made known to them thy name, and I will make it
known. Theologies can be got from other stand-
points, but none of them will be a theology of the
gospels, and it is very doubtful if any of them will
prove to be much of a gospel at all.

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