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Jesus Christ -- Mystical body

Here are entered works on the Christian doctrine that the church is the mystical body of Christ. Works on the relationship between God and the individual Christian at the highest level of mystical experience are entered under Mystical union.

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• Christ in the Church: A Volume of Religious Essays (second edition, 1913), by Robert Hugh Benson (HTML at Notre Dame)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations: From the Visions of the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich As Recorded in the Journals of Clemens Brentano (this translation originally published 1914; online edition based on 4-volume reprint by TAN Books, 2004), by Anna Katharina Emmerich, ed. by C. E. Schmöger, contrib. by Clemens Brentano (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at tandfspi.org)
• His Name Shall be Called Wonderful (Tulsa, OK: Kenneth Hagin Ministries, c1983), by Kenneth E. Hagin (PDF at rhema.org)
• The Call of the Carpenter (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1911), by Bouck White, illust. by William Balfour Ker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Christ or Buddha?, by Annet C. Rich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Christology: A Dogmatic Treatise on the Incarnation (second edition; St. Louis et al.: B. Herder, 1916), by Joseph Pohle, ed. by Arthur Preuss
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Christ's Credentials (Logansport, IN: Press of Longwell amd Cummings, n.d.), by Daniel P. Baldwin (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The Man of Galilee (Anderson, IN: Gospel Trumpet Company, c1907), by E. E. Byrum
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Man of Galilee (New York: The International Committee of Young Men's Christian associations, c1906), by William Edgar Geil (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Man of Sorrows, As Set Forth in the Gospel of Luke, by J. N. Darby (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Who Was Jesus Christ?, by Charles Bradlaugh
  • HTML at infidels.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Aspects of the Christ, by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)
• Const-Toonneel, Inhoudende de Beschrijvinghe ende XL. Heerlijcke Afbeeldindinghen Onses Heeren Jesu Christi, met Sijne Apostelen, Ende Evangelisten, Midtsgaders de Hooft-Deuchden Ende Ondeuchden; Ende Ten Laetsten de Seven Planeten (in Dutch; Delff: N. de Clerck, 1609), by Nicolaes De Clerck, illust. by Jan Wierix
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Jewish Life of Christ, Being the Sepher Toldoth Jeshu (London: Progressive Publishing Company, 1885), ed. by G. W. Foote and J. M. Wheeler (HTML at Freethought Archives)

• Giambologna: Narrator of the Catholic Reformation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Mary Weitzel Gibbons (HTML at UC Press)
• Evangelicae Historiae Imagines, ex Ordine Evangeliorum, Quae Toto Anno in Missae Sacrificio Recitantur, in Ordinem Temporis Vitae Christae Digestae (in Latin; Antwerp: M. Nutius, 1593), by Gerónimo Nadal, illust. by Bernardino Passeri, Maarten de Vos, Antonie Wierix, Jan Wierix, Jeronimus Wierix, Adriaen Collaert, Jan Collaert, and Karel van Mallery
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • reprint, with pages reprocessed (and reverse sides of illustration pages omitted): multiple formats with commentary at archive.org
• The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art, With That of His Types, St. John the Baptist, and Other Persons of the Old and New Testament (new edition, 2 volumes; London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1892), by Mrs. Jameson and Elizabeth Eastlake
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Passional Christi und Antichristi (in German; woodcuts sometimes attributed to Hans and sometimes to Lucas Cranach; 1521), by Martin Luther, contrib. by Philip Melanchthon and Johann Schwertfeger, illust. by Hans Cranach and Lucas Cranach (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Four Major Steps of Christ (with other books by this author), by Witness Lee (frame-dependent HTML at ministrybooks.org)

• Who Was This Nazarene? A Challenging and Definite Biography of the Master (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1940), by Albert Field Gilmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crises of the Christ (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1903), by G. Campbell Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Desire of Ages, by Ellen G. White (HTML at whiteestate.org)
• His Life: A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels (Chicago and New York: Hope Pub. Co., c1905), ed. by William E. Barton, Theodore Gerald Soares, and Sydney Strong (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ: From His Incarnation Until His Ascension, Denoting and Incorporating the Words of the Sacred Text From the Vulgate; Also, The History of The Acts of the Apostles, Connected, Explained, and Blended With Reflections (New York: D. and J. Sadlier, 1867), by François de Ligny, trans. by Mrs. J. Sadlier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Jesus of Nazareth: A Biography, by George A. Barton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jesus of Nazareth: His Life, Times, and Teaching (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by Joseph Klausner, trans. by Herbert Danby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern (6th edition; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1922), by James E. Talmage (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Jesus, the Last Great Initiate (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, ca. 1908), by Edouard Schuré, trans. by Fred Rothwell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, by Alfred Edersheim (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Life of Christ, by F. W. Farrar (HTML at christianwritings.net)
• The Life of Christ (New York: A. L. Burt, n.d.), by F. W. Farrar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Christ (2 volumes; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1874), by F. W. Farrar
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The Life of Christ (New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1863), by William Hanna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Christ (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1923), by Giovanni Papini, trans. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Life of Jesus (based on the 1927 Modern library edition, with its new introduction omitted), by Ernest Renan (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of Jesus Christ, by James Stalker (HTML at ccohmb.org)
• The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (2 volumes; New York: C. Blanchard, 1860), by David Friedrich Strauss, trans. by George Eliot
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (London: G. Allen and Co., 1913), by David Friedrich Strauss, trans. by George Eliot (page images at Michigan)
• The Life of Our Lord Upon the Earth Considered in its Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Relations (New York: C. Scribner, 1863), by Samuel J. Andrews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Man of Galilee: A Biographical Study of the Life of Jesus Christ (edition de luxe, c1899), by Frank W. Gunsaulus (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Man of Galilee: A Short Sketch of Christ's Three Years of Ministry (Grand Rapids, MI: Shaw Publishing Company, c1912), by Elton Raymond Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Most Wonderful Story in the World: A Life of Christ for Little Children (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1922), by Amy Le Feuvre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mystery of the Kingdom of God: The Secret of Jesus' Messiahship and Passion (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1914), by Albert Schweitzer, trans. by Walter Lowrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Rabbi, Messiah, Martyr: A Modern Picture of the Story of Jesus (London: P. Green, 1907), by Herbert Rix
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Short Account of the First Preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles: Being a Continuation of "Conversations on the Life of Jesus Christ", by a Mother (London: B. Fellowes and J. Harris, 1830), by Elizabeth Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Syrian Christ (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916), by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Vie de Jésus (ninth edition, in French; Paris: M. Levy Freres, 1863), by Ernest Renan (Gutenberg text)
• An Abridgment of The New Testament: or, The Life, Miracles, and Death of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (Glasgow, Scotland: J. Lumsden and Son, 1815) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Good News of a Spiritual Realm (c1915), ed. by Dwight Goddard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Good News of a Spiritual Realm (revised edition; New York et al: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1916), ed. by Dwight Goddard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jesus an Essene (only book in a projected "Christ, Christians, and Christianity" series; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1895), by Edward Planta Nesbit (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Man of Galilee (New York: Hunt and Eaton; Cincinnati: Cranston and Stowe, c1889), by Atticus G. Haygood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Understanding the Times of Christ, by William W. Menzies (HTML at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.