The Essence of Christianity / Translated from the second German edition

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. § 1.	The Essential Nature of Man					1
§ 2.	The Essence of Religion Considered Generally					12

Part I.

II.	God as a Being of the Understanding	33
III.	God as a Moral Being or Law	44
IV.	The Mystery of the Incarnation; or, God as Love, as a Being of the Heart	50
V.	The Mystery of the Suffering God	59
VI.	The Mystery of the Trinity and the Mother of God	65
VII.	The Mystery of the Logos and Divine Image	74
VIII.	The Mystery of the Cosmogonical Principle in God	80
IX.	The Mystery of Mysticism, or of Nature in God	87
X.	The Mystery of Providence and Creation out of Nothing	101
XI.	The Significance of the Creation in Judaism	112
XII.	The Omnipotence of Feeling, or the Mystery of Prayer	120
XIII.	The Mystery of Faith—The Mystery of Miracle	126
XIV.	The Mystery of the Resurrection and of the Miraculous Conception	135
XV.	The Mystery of the Christian Christ, or the Personal God	140
XVI.	The Distinction between Christianity and Heathenism	150
XVII.	The Significance of Voluntary Celibacy and Monachism	160
XVIII.	The Christian Heaven, or Personal Immortality	170

Part II.

XIX.	The Essential Standpoint of Religion	185
XX.	The Contradiction in the Existence of God	197
XXI.	The Contradiction in the Revelation of God	204
XXII.	The Contradiction in the Nature of God in General	213
XXIII.	The Contradiction in the Speculative Doctrine of God	226
XXIV.	The Contradiction in the Trinity	232
XXV.	The Contradiction in the Sacraments	236
XXVI.	The Contradiction of Faith and Love	247
XXVII.	Concluding Application	270

SECTION

1.	The Religious Emotions Purely Human	281
2.	God is Feeling Released from Limits	283
3.	God is the Highest Feeling of Self	284
4.	Distinction between the Pantheistic and Personal God	285
5.	Nature without Interest for Christians	287
6.	In God Man is his Own Object	289
7.	Christianity the Religion of Suffering	292
8.	Mystery of the Trinity	293
9.	Creation out of Nothing	297
10.	Egoism of the Israelitish Religion	298
11.	The Idea of Providence	299
12.	Contradiction of Faith and Reason	304
13.	The Resurrection of Christ	306
14.	The Christian a Supermundane Being	307
15.	The Celibate and Monachism	308
16.	The Christian Heaven	315
17.	What Faith Denies on Earth it Affirms in Heaven	316
18.	Contradictions in the Sacraments	317
19.	Contradiction of Faith and Love	320
20.	Results of the Principle of Faith	326
21.	Contradiction of the God-Man	332
22.	Anthropology the Mystery of Theology	336

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