Books by Charles E. Raven

This book, originally published in 1959, provides the Jewish historical and religious background to the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, as well as evidence for Christ's historical existence. The book also includes overviews of the ministry and teaching of Jesus, as well as a breakdown of the stories and events specific to each gospel.

Charles E. Raven (1885-1964) was a British theologian who held the position of Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University. In this book, which was first published in 1923, Raven presents a discussion of the Christology of the early Church, focusing on the idea of Christ's divinity originated by Apollinarius of Laodicea.

This first volume of the 1951-2 Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion and Christian Theology was published in 1953. In this volume, Canon Raven presents a rewriting of the history of science in organic and holistic categories, as opposed to the conventional mechanism and determinism.

In this second set of the 1951-2 Gifford Lectures, Canon Raven examines critically and constructively the scope and character of Jesus and the nature of God.

A course of eight lectures delivered at Cambridge in 1943. In his introduction Dr Raven suggests that science and religion, as the most formative influence in the educational and the intellectual life of the world, share responsibility for the outbreak of worldwide war.