On the Prospects of Christianity / Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion

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PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY

By Bernard Shaw

WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL?

WHY JESUS MORE THAN ANOTHER?

WAS JESUS A COWARD?

WAS JESUS A MARTYR?

THE GOSPELS WITHOUT PREJUDICE.

THE GOSPELS NOW UNINTELLIGIBLE TO NOVICES.

WORLDLINESS OF THE MAJORITY.

RELIGION OF THE MINORITY. SALVATIONISM.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ATONEMENT AND PUNISHMENT

SALVATION AT FIRST A CLASS PRIVILEGE; AND THE REMEDY

RETROSPECTIVE ATONEMENT, AND THE EXPECTATION OF THE REDEEMER

COMPLETION OF THE SCHEME BY LUTHER AND CALVIN

JOHN BARLEYCORN

LOOKING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD

THE HONOR OF DIVINE PARENTAGE

MATTHEW.

THE ANNUNCIATION: THE MASSACRE: THE FLIGHT

JOHN THE BAPTIST

JESUS JOINS THE BAPTISTS

THE SAVAGE JOHN AND THE CIVILIZED JESUS

JESUS NOT A PROSLETYST

THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.

THE MIRACLES

MATTHEW IMPUTES DIGNITY TO JESUS.

THE GREAT CHANGE.

JERUSALEM AND THE MYSTICAL SACRIFICE.

NOT THIS MAN BUT BARRABAS

THE RESURRECTION.

DATE OF MATTHEW'S NARRATIVE.

CLASS TYPE OF MATTHEW'S JESUS

MARK. THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION.

LUKE.

LUKE THE LITERARY ARTIST.

THE CHARM OF LUKE'S NARRATIVE.

THE TOUCH OF PARISIAN ROMANCE.

WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH.

JOHN.

A NEW STORY AND A NEW CHARACTER.

JOHN THE IMMORTAL EYEWITNESS.

THE PECULIAR THEOLOGY OF JESUS.

JOHN AGREED AS TO THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.

CREDIBILITY OF THE GOSPELS.

FASHIONS OF BELIEF.

CREDIBILITY AND TRUTH.

CHRISTIAN ICONOLATRY AND THE PERILS OF THE ICONOCLAST.

THE ALTERNATIVE TO BARRABAS.

THE REDUCTION TO MODERN PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANITY.

MODERN COMMUNISM.

REDISTRIBUTION.

SHALL HE WHO MAKES, OWN.

LABOR TIME.

THE DREAM OF DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO MERIT.

VITAL DISTRIBUTION.

EQUAL DISTRIBUTION.

THE CAPTAIN AND THE CABIN BOY.

THE POLITICAL AND BIOLOGICAL OBJECTIONS TO INEQUALITY.

JESUS AS ECONOMIST.

JESUS AS BIOLOGIST.

MONEY THE MIDWIFE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM.

JUDGE NOT.

LIMITS TO FREE WILL.

JESUS ON MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY.

WHY JESUS DID NOT MARRY.

INCONSISTENCY OF THE SEX INSTINCT.

FOR BETTER OR WORSE.

THE CASE FOR MARRIAGE.

CELIBACY NO REMEDY.

AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION.

THE VINDICTIVE MIRACLES AND THE STONING OF STEPHEN.

PAUL.

THE CONFUSION OF CHRISTENDOM.

THE SECRET OF PAUL'S SUCCESS.

PAUL'S QUALITIES

THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.

THE CONTROVERSIES ON BAPTISM AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION.

THE ALTERNATIVE CHRISTS.

CREDULITY NO CRITERION.

BELIEF IN PERSONAL IMMORTALITY NO CRITERION.

THE SECULAR VIEW NATURAL, NOT RATIONAL, THEREFORE INEVITABLE.

"THE HIGHER CRITICISM."

THE PERILS OF SALVATIONISM.

THE IMPORTANCE OF HELL IN THE SALVATION SCHEME.

THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ATONEMENT.

THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIANITY.

CHRISTIANITY AND THE EMPIRE.



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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