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The Fair Haven

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Transcribed from the 1913 A. C. Fifield edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

The Fair Haven

A Work in Defence of the Miraculous Element in our Lord’s Ministry upon Earth, both as against Rationalistic Impugners and certain Orthodox Defenders, by the late John Pickard Owen, with a Memoir of the Author by William Bickersteth Owen.

By

Samuel Butler

Author of “Erewhon”

Op. 2

Now Reset; and Edited, with an Introduction, by R. A. Streatfeild

London A. C. Fifield, 13 Clifford’s Inn, E.C. 1913

WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH

Contents

Introduction by R. A. Streatfeild ix

Butler’s Preface to the Second Edition xv

Memoir of the late John Pickard Owen 1

CHAPTER

I. Introduction 61

II. Strauss and the Hallucination Theory 83

III. The Character and Conversion of St. Paul 105

IV. Paul’s Testimony considered 120

V. A Consideration of Certain Ill-judged Methods of Defence 134

VI. More Disingenuousness 153

VII. Difficulties felt by our Opponents 170

VIII. The Preceding Chapter Continued 194

IX. The Christ-Ideal 230

X. Conclusion 255

Appendix 273

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