The Essence of Christianity
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Preface to the Second Edition |
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INTRODUCTION. | ||
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I. | § 1. The Essential Nature of Man | 1 |
I. | § 2. The Essence of Religion considered generally | 12 |
Part I.
THE TRUE OR ANTHROPOLOGICAL ESSENCE OF RELIGION. | ||
II. | God as a Being of the Understanding | 32 |
III. | God as a Moral Being, or Law | 43 |
IV. | The Mystery of the Incarnation; or, God as Love, as a Being of the Heart | 49 |
V. | The Mystery of the Suffering God | 58 |
VI. | The Mystery of the Trinity and the Mother of God | 64 |
VII. | The Mystery of the Logos and Divine Image | 73 |
VIII. | The Mystery of the Cosmogonical Principle in God | 79 |
IX. | The Mystery of Mysticism, or Nature in God | 86 |
X | The Mystery of Providence and Creation out ofNothing | 100 |
XI. | The Significance of the Creation in Judaism | 111 |
XII. | The Omnipotence of Feeling, or the Mystery of Prayer | 119 |
XIII. | The Mystery of Faith—the Mystery of Miracle | 125 |
XIV | The Mystery of the Resurrection and of theMiraculous Conception | 134 |
XV | The Mystery of the Christian Christ, or the PersonalGod | 139 |
XVI. | The Distinction between Christianity and Heathenism | 149 |
XVII | The Significance of Voluntary Celibacy andMonachism | 159 |
XVIII. | The Christian Heaven, or Personal Immortality | 169 |
Part II.
THE FALSE OR THEOLOGICAL ESSENCE OF RELIGION. | ||
XIX. | The Essential Stand-point of Religion | 184 |
XX. | The Contradiction in the Existence of God | 196 |
XXI. | The Contradiction in the Revelation of God | 203 |
XXII. | The Contradiction in the Nature of God in general | 211 |
XXIII. | The Contradiction in the Speculative Doctrine of God | 224 |
XXIV. | The Contradiction in the Trinity | 230 |
XXV. | The Contradiction in the Sacraments | 234 |
XXVI. | The Contradiction of Faith and Love | 245 |
XXVII. | Concluding Application | 267 |
APPENDIX. | ||
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1. | The Religious Emotions purely Human | 275 |
2. | God is Feeling released from Limits | 277 |
3. | God is the highest Feeling of Self | 278 |
4. | Distinction between the Pantheistic and Personal God | 279 |
5. | Nature without interest for Christians | 282 |
6. | In God Man is his own Object | 284 |
7. | Christianity the Religion of Suffering | 287 |
8. | Mystery of the Trinity | 288 |
9. | Creation out of nothing | 293 |
10. | Egoism of the Israelitish Religion | 294 |
11. | The Idea of Providence | 295 |
12. | Contradiction of Faith and Reason | 300 |
13. | The Resurrection of Christ | 304 |
14. | The Christian a Supermundane Being | 304 |
15. | The Celibate and Monachism | 305 |
16. | The Christian Heaven | 313 |
17. | What Faith denies on Earth it affirms in Heaven | 315 |
18. | Contradictions in the Sacraments | 316 |
19. | Contradiction of Faith and Love | 319 |
20. | Results of the Principle of Faith | 325 |
21. | Contradiction of the God-Man | 332 |
22. | Anthropology the Mystery of Theology | 337 |
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