Excerpt from The Religion of the Christ: Its Historic and Literary Development Considered as an Evidence of Its Origin, the Bampton Lectures for 1874 It is, however, commonly admitted now that we need not limit the genuine remains of the great Apostle to these four letters and it is certain, what ever our opinion as to the formation of the canon of the New Testament, or the degree of authority attaching to it when formed, may be, that the Reli gion of the Christ, or the belief in Jesus as the Christ, is not only common to every document com prised in it, but is alike the very backbone and essential framework of all the documents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.