The Supernatural in the New Testament: Possible, Credible, and Historical

Charles Adolphus Row (1816-96) was a British Christian preacher and moral philosopher. He was born in St John's, Cornwall, later attending Pembroke College, Oxford where he obtained his BA in 1838 and MA in 1841. From 1848-61 he was headmaster of the Royal Free Grammar School in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. From the 1870s Row became a frequent lecturer, including a course of lectures in defence of the gospel at Cleveland Hall, Fitzroy Square in London in 1870, and delivering the Bampton Lectures at Oxford University in 1877. For the latter lectures he took as his theme 'Christian Evidences Viewed in Relation to Modern Thought' and looked for a compromise between theologians who believed in the complete infallibility of the Bible and scientists who pointed out the problems with a literal intepretation. Row was a prolific author and in this work of 1875, written at the request of The Christian Evidence Society, he presents An Examination of the Validity of Some Recent Objections Against Christianity as a Divine Revelation. The arguments set forth in this book form the foundation of his later Bampton Lectures.