I. Forms and Backgrounds of Inherited Christianity Certain Qualities Common to All Religions—Christianity Historically Organized Around a Transcendent God and a Fallen Humanity—The Incarnation; the Cross the Supreme Symbol of Western Theology—The Catholic Belief in the Authority of an Inerrant Church—The Protestant Church Made Faith the Key to Salvation—Protestantism and an Infallibly Inspired Bible—The Strength and Weakness of This Position—Evangelical Protestantism the Outcome—Individual Experience of the Believer the Keystone of Evangelical Protestantism—Readjustment of Both Catholic and Protestant Systems Inevitable. II. New Forces and Old Faiths The Far-reaching Readjustments of Christian Faith in the Last Fifty Years—The Reaction of Evolution Upon Religion—The Reaction of Biblical Criticism Upon Faith—The Average Man Loses His Bearings—The New Psychology—TheInfluence of Philosophy and the Social Situation—An Age of Confusion—TheLure of the Short Cut—Popular Education—The Churches Lose Authority—Efforts at Reconstruction—An Age of Doubt and a Twilight-Zone in History—The Hunger of the Soul and the Need for Faith—Modern Religious Cults and Movements: Their Three centers About Which They Have Organized Themselves. III. Faith Healing in General The Bases of Faith and Mental Healing—Cannon's Study of Emotional Reactions—The Two Doors—The Challenge of Hypnotism— Changed Attention Affects Physical States—The Power of Faith to Change Mental Attitudes—Demon Possession—The Beginnings of Scientific Medicine—The Attitude of the Early and Medieval Church—Saints and Shrines—Magic, Charms, and the King's Touch: The Rise of the Faith Healer. IV. The Approach to Christian Science and Mary Baker Eddy Mesmerism—The Scientific Investigation of Mesmerism—Mesmerism in America; Phineas Quimby an Important Link in a Long Chain—Quimby is Led to Define Sickness as Wrong Belief—Quimby Develops His Theories—Mary Baker Eddy Comes Under His Influence—Outstanding Events of Her Life: Her Early Girlhood—Her Education: Shaping Influences—Her Unhappy Fortunes. She is Cured by Quimby—An Unacknowledged Debt—She Develops Quimby's Teachings—Begins to Teach and to Heal—Early Phases of Christian Science—She Writes "Science and Health" and Completes the Organization of Her Church. V. Christian Science as a Philosophy Christian Science a Philosophy, a Theology, a Religion and a System of Healing—The Philosophic Bases of Christian Science—It Undertakes to Solve the Problem of Evil—Contrasted Solutions—The Divine Mind and Mortal Mind—The Essential Limitations of Mrs. Eddy's System—Experience and Life—Sense-Testimony—The Inescapable Reality of Shadowed Experience. VI. Christian Science as a Theology Science and Health Offered as a Key to the Scriptures—It Ignores All Recognized Canons of Biblical Interpretation—Its Conception of God—Mrs. Eddy's Interpretation of Jesus Christ—Christian Science His Second Coming—Christian Science, the Incarnation and the Atonement—Sin an Error of Mortal Mind—The Sacraments Disappear—The Real Power of Christian Science. VII. Christian Science as a System of Healing and a Religion Christian Science the Application of Philosophy and Theology to Bodily Healing—Looseness of Christian Science Diagnosis—The Power of Mental Environment—Christian Science Definition of Disease—Has a Rich Field to Work—A Strongly-Drawn System of Psycho-therapy—A System of Suggestion—Affected by Our Growing Understanding of the Range of Suggestion—Strongest in Teaching That God Has Meaning for the Whole of Life—Exalts the Power of Mind; the Processes—Is Not Big Enough for the Whole of Experience. VIII. New Thought New Thought Difficult to Define—"The Rediscovery of the Inner Life"—Spinoza's Quest—Kant Reaffirms the Creative Power of Mind—Utilitarianism, Deism and Individualism—The Reactions Against Them—New England Transcendentalism—New Thought Takes Form—Its Creeds—The Range of the Movement—The Key-Words of New Thought—Its Field of Real Usefulness—Its Gospel of Getting On—The Limitations and Dangers of Its Positions—Tends to Become a Universal and Loosely-Defined Religion. IX. The Return of the East Upon the West. Theosophy and Kindred Cults Historic Forces Carried Early Christianity West and Not East—The West Rediscovers the East; the East Returns Upon the West—Chesterton's Two Saints—Why the West Questions the East—Pantheism and Its Problems—How the One Becomes the Many—Evolution and Involution—Theosophy Undertakes to Offer Deliverance—But Becomes Deeply Entangled Itself—The West Looks to Personal Immortality—The East Balances the Accounts of Life in a Series of Reincarnations—Theosophy Produces a Distinct Type of Character—A "Tour de Force" of the Imagination—A Bridge of Clouds—The Difficulties of Reincarnation—Immortality Nobler, Juster and Simpler—Pantheism at Its Best—and Its Worst. X. Spiritualism The Genesis of Modern Spiritualism—It Crosses to Europe—The Beginnings of Trance-Mediumship—The Society for Psychical Research Begins Its Work—Confronts Difficulties—William James Enters the Field—The Limitations of Psychical Investigation—The Society for Psychical Research Gives Intellectual Standing to Spiritism—The Very Small Number of Dependable Mediums—Spiritism a Question of Testimony and Interpretation—Possible Explanations of Spiritistic Phenomena—Myers' Theory of Mediumship—Telepathy—Controls—The Dilemma of Spiritism—The Influence of Spiritism—The Real Alternative to Spiritism—The Investigations of Émile Boirac—Geley's Conclusions—The Meaning of Spiritism for Faith. XIXI. Minor Cults: The Meaning of the Cults for the Church Border-land Cults—Bahaism—The Bab and His Successors—The Temple of Unity—General Conclusions—The Cults Are Aspects of the Creative Religious Consciousness of the Age—Their Parallels in the Past—The Healing Cults Likely to be Adversely Influenced by the Scientific Organization of Psycho-therapy—New Thought Will Become Old Thought—Possible Absorption of the Cults by a Widening Historic Christianity—Christianity Influenced by the Cults—Medical Science and the Healing Cults—A Neglected Force—Time and the Corrections of Truth.