INDEX

Agency, impersonal, [117] f.; limits of personal, [121] f.

Agnosticism, and theodicy, [154] f.

Albigenses, [162]

Arminianism, [161]

Asceticism, [156]; protestant, [202]

Attis, [23]

Attis mysteries, [24]

Balder, [21]

Biblical criticism, [66]

Bibliolatry, [204]

Brain, discussion of, [136]

Buddhism, [138]

Calvinism, [164]

Cathars, [162]

Christianity, origins of, [58] f.; historical approach to, [60] f.; setting of, [68] f.; democratic movements in, [73]; in transition, [95] f.; naïveté of doctrines, [101] f.

Christian mythology, [28]

Church, organization of, [92], [187]

Copernican theory, [100] f.

Creation, stories of, [30] f.

Criticism, higher, [128], [131] f.

Demons, Jesus's belief in, [127]

Devil, a personal, [155]

Dionysus, [18]

Dogmatism, tendency to, [65]

Dreams, influence of, [143]

Ethics, and early religion, [170] f.; in the Middle Ages, [173] f.; heteronomous, [175] f.; modern, [177] f.; [184] f.

Evil, for primitive man, [153]; and Satan, [156]; created by God, [158]; as illusion, [164] f.; disappearance of problem of, [165]

Evolution, and myth, [41] f.; biological, [104] f.

Faith cures, [132]

Gnosticism, [87] f.

God, for Christianity, [115] f.; ideas of, [159] f.

Great War, [2], [11]

Hades, [140]

Hell, [177]

Humanism, [192]

Humanitarianism, [5]

Immortality, arguments for, [146] f.; and early peoples, [139] f.; and Christianity, [142]; philosophical aspect of, [148] f.

Incarnation, [90]

Infallibility, [204]

Insanity, [146] f.

James, Wm., [145]

Jesus, [75], [79] f.; death of, [82]; as Messiah, [85]; become God, [91]; and the Hebrew prophets, [158] f.

Job, [154].

Kant, Immanuel, [147] f.

Kempis, Thomas à, [180]

Koran, [62]

Lang, Andrew, [17]

Laws, universal, [118]

Lyell, scientific canon of, [132]

Magic, [44] f.

Magicians, [50]

Manicheism, [162]

McGiffert, quoted, [7]

Mill, John Stuart, [163]

Miracles, [123] f.; of Jesus, [127] f; evidence for, [130] f.; and their logic, [133]

Mithraism, [23], [69].

Monastic orders, [194]

Monotheism, ethical, [91], [115]; Christian, [111] f.; of Isaiah, [158] f.

Morality, [173]

Mythology, [14] f.

Myths, and morality, [24] f.; surrendering of, [108]

Name, influence of, [51] f.

Naturalism, [2]

Newman, Cardinal, [187]

Original sin, [157]

Osiris, [23]

Paul, [70], [73]

Pauline Christianity, [86] f.

Philo, [90]

Prometheus, [17]

Prophets, Hebrew, [171] f.

Protestantism, beginnings of, [93]; aspects of, [199] f.; sects of, [205]

Providence, [144] f.

Reformation, [205]

Reinach, [17]

Religion, new perspective in, [6], [10]; of the Hebrews, [27]; and magic, [53] f.; in early times, [170]; social side of, [190]

Ritual, [19] f.; and Christianity, [23]

Robinson, quoted, [200]

Roman Empire, [189], [192]

Sacraments, [192]

Salvation, [8] f.; and immortality, [141] f., [201]

Satan, [155]

Savior, [157]

Science, [62] f.

Secular life, growth of, [195] f.

Sheol, [18], [140] f.

Skepticism, [110]

Social democracy, [5]

Spiritual, the, [11], [196]

Spiritual courage, [2]

Spiritualism, [11]

St. Augustine, [159], [162]

St. Francis, [73].

Strauss, [64]

Synoptic gospels, [77] f.

Theology, and ethics, [164]

Totemism, [15] f.

Tradition, harm of, [10]

Tyndall, [135]

Unitarian movement, [206]

Universe, new view of, [3] f.

Wells, H. G., [162], [184] f.

Yahweh, [26] f.


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