| Abbreviations | ||
| Foreword | 1 | |
| Questions | 5 | |
| 1 | Do the Gospel Stories Present an Accurate Factual Account of the Teaching and Deeds of Jesus of Nazareth? | 7 |
| 2 | How Much Can We Claim To Know About the Jesus of History? | 11 |
| 3 | Do the Apocryphal Gospels Tell Us Anything Important About Jesus of Nazareth? | 18 |
| 4 | Is Not Such an Approach to the Jesus of History and to the Canonical Gospels Tantamount to an Implicit Reduction in Christian Faith and Contrary to a Centuries-Long Tradition of Gospel Interpretation? | 21 |
| 5 | How Historical Are the Infancy Narratives of the Matthean and Lucan Gospels? | 28 |
| 6 | Does the Story of the Virgin Birth Record Simple Historical Fact or Are There Other Possible Ways of Understanding It? | 32 |
| 7 | How Are We To Understand the References to the Brothers and Sisters of Jesus in the New Testament? | 36 |
| 8 | How Are the Gospel Accounts of Jesus' Baptism To Be Understood? | 38 |
| 9 | How Are the Gospel Accounts of Jesus' Temptations To Be Understood? | 43 |
| 10 | What Themes in the Gospels Are Accepted as Representing the Teachings of Jesus Himself? | 45 |
| 11 | What Did Jesus Teach About the Kingdom of God? | 48 |
| 12 | How Are Jesus' Sayings and Parables To Be Understood, Also His Sermon on the Mount? | 51 |
| 13 | How Are the Gospel Accounts of Jesus' Miracles To Be Understood? | 56 |
| 14 | How Are Jesus' Words to Simon Peter at Caesarea Philippi To Be Understood? | 62 |
| 15 | How Are Jesus' Words and Actions at the Last Supper To Be Understood? | 66 |
| 16 | Who Was Responsible for the Death of Jesus? | 76 |
| 17 | Are There Different Interpretations of Jesus as the Christ (or Different Christologies) in the New Testament? | 81 |
| 18 | How Are References to the Resurrection of Jesus in the New Testament To Be Interpreted? | 86 |
| 19 | How Are New Testament References to the Ascension of Jesus To Be Understood? | 93 |
| 20 | Did Jesus Clearly Claim To Be God? | 97 |
| 21 | Did Jesus of Nazareth Know All Things, Even About the Future? | 101 |
| 22 | What Is To Be Said of the Titles Messiah or Christ, Son of Man, Son of God, Lord, etc.? | 102 |
| 23 | After the Resurrection Was Jesus Proclaimed Unambiguously from the Start as Son of God, Equal to the Father? | 108 |
| 24 | In What Sense Can It Be Said That Jesus Was the Redeemer of the World? | 110 |
| 25 | Did Jesus Found the Church? | 112 |
| Appendix | 117 | |
| App. 1. The Biblical Commission and Its Instruction on the Historical Truth of the Gospels | 119 | |
| App. 2. Instruction: Text | 153 | |
| App. 3. Vatican Council II Dogmatic Constitution, Dei Verbum [section]19 (AAS 58 [1966] 826-27) | 163 | |
| Select Bibliography | 165 | |
| Indexes | 167 |
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