The Life of Christ Vol. 1

by Frederic W. Farrar

Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: E.P. Dutton

522 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1874

About the author

Frederic William Farrar (Bombay, 7 August 1831 – Canterbury, 22 March 1903) was a cleric of the Church of England (Anglican), schoolteacher and author. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles secret society. He was the Archdeacon of Westminster from 1883 to 1894, and Dean of Canterbury Cathedral from 1895 until his death in 1903.

Source: Wikipedia

Reviews

[Ryan Reece · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this definitive, albeit subjective, history of the gospels. Very well researched and vastly expansive work on Jesus and his life from someone who went to the source materials to did up everything known about this topic at the time publishing. Certain controversy is left out of this work, but probably because only has so much time and space in this one work to lay it all out. Highly recommended.

[Roy Bartle · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pleasantly devotional book on the life of Christ. Farrar does seem to avoid some of the more controversial questions on the narrative, but the book is easy to read and does provide chronological shape to the Gospel accounts of Jesus' life.