ΤΟ MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER IN GRATITUDE AND LOVE AND REVERENCE I DEDICATE WHATEVER OF MY OWN WITHIN THESE PAGES MAY BE TRUE AND WISE FOR IT IS THEIRS Autrement on l'accuse de ne rien dire de nouveau. Mais si les matières qu'il traite ne sont pas nouvelles, la disposition en est nouvelle. Quand on joue à la paume, c'est une même balle dont on joue l'un et l'autre ; mais l'un la place mieux.-Pascal. Historical narratives are thus a double witness, to past and present, e.g. the fourth gospel The gospels and the epistles: their rise and mutual relations The fact of distance an axiom of research to be recognised, for(a) sense of order and progress in age (b) intelligibility of literature 31 f. 39 44 45 46 Use and limitations of this method for and with the historical The NT literature to be taken in its sequence Resultant insight into early Christian modes of thought and life II. Canonical order of NT varying and unchronological (a) organic relations necessarily between certain docu- ments, e.g. gospels and Pauline epistles . literary dependence in relation to chronology of the place of Paulinism in early Christian develop- (b) dogmatic purpose or orderly development- the deceptiveness and inadequacy of chronology (c) undue literary prominence of Pauline epistles— Limitations of this edition with Paul The preliminary character of a chronological arrangement—what is The possibility of such an attempt in the present state of NT |