A rationalist's examination of the gospel record: the sources, the silences of the contemporary historians, the resurrection accounts and what a court would make of them. Mangasarian was an Armenian-American Presbyterian minister who left the pulpit for the freethought platform. The book is a period document of the argument as it stood in 1909, argued without abuse. Sixty plates of Piranesi's prisons and Panini's architectural capriccios, from 1350 to 1902, picture the ruins and enclosures in which the old creed was argued.