| CHAPTER I | |
| What Is the Christian Faith? |
| [Need of a definition] | 16 |
| I. | [The Christianity of the New Testament Writers] | 16 |
| [Their emphasis upon the Passion and Resurrection] | 16 |
| [Their emphasis upon the Person of Christ] | 20 |
| II. | [Primitive Christianity and Pauline Christianity] | 21 |
| [Was Paul the Founder of Christianity?] | 21 |
| [Lines of connection between Paul and the Primitive Apostles] | 22 |
| III. | [The Christianity of Jesus and of Paul] | 26 |
| [Harmony in their Ethical Teaching and in their blending of Doctrine with Ethics] | 27 |
| [The Christological passage, Matthew xi.] [its exegesisand its alleged isolation] | 35 |
| [The Passion narrative in Mark: views of Bousset] | 41 |
| [Self-authenticating contrasts in the Character of Christ] | 43 |
| IV. | [The Dilemma of Historical Criticism] | 44 |
| [Jesus as viewed by the Liberal and the Radical Schools] | 44 |
| [The Dilemma of Liberal Criticism] | 45 |
| [Lessening Significance of a merely human Jesus] | 49 |
| [Harnack and von Dobschütz on the "Double Gospel"] | 53 |
| [The Essence of Christianity] | 54 |
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| CHAPTER II | | |
| The Christian Faith and Modern Science | | |
| [The Darwinian Theory: inferences unfavourable and favourable to religion ] | 56 |
| [Evolution and the Copernican Revolution] | 60 |
| I. | [The Method of Evolution: the biological discussion] | 61 |
| [State of opinion after fifty years of Darwinism] | 61 |
| [Laws of Variation and Heredity] | 62 |
| [Weismann's theory of Germinal Selection] | 63 |
| [Significance of the variety in opinions] | 65 |
| II. | [The Meaning of Evolution: the philosophical discussion] | 66 |
| [1. Mechanism and Design] | 66 |
| [In the organic world in general; the fitness of the environment] | 67 |
| [In the organic world including man] | 70 |
| [2. Preformation and Epigenesis] | 73 |
| [Preformation and the infinite regress] | 74 |
| [The Origin of Life: various theories] | 75 |
| [The Origin of Man as viewed from different standpoints] | 78 |
| [The Generatio Æquivoca] | 80 |
| III. | [Theism and Evolution] | 82 |
| [The causal demand] | 82 |
| [Theism and the ideas of Continuity and Progress] | 83 |
| [Religion and scientific advance] | 85 |
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| CHAPTER III | | |
| [The Psychology of Religion: its precursors and founders] | 89 |
| I. | [The Psychology of Religious Experience: points emphasized in the discussion] | 92 |
| [1. The normality of religion] | 92 |
| [2. The power of religion in the individual and in society] | 96 |
| [3. The need of salvation] | 100 |
| [4. The way of salvation] | 102 |
| II. | [The Metaphysical Implicates of Religious Experience] | 105 |
| [1. The Physical Explanation: religion the result of bodily conditions; religion and sex] | 106 |
| [2. The Psychological Explanation: religion and the subconscious] | 111 |
| [3. The Social Explanation: religion and society] | 114 |
| [4. The Theistic Inference] | 119 |
| [The Pragmatic Argument for Theism] | 119 |
| [The Mystical Argument: its strength and its weakness] | 120 |
| [The Evidence of Christian Experience] | 122 |
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| CHAPTER IV | | |
| [The philosophical situation at the opening of the century] | 125 |
| [Leading representatives of present day philosophy] | 127 |
| I. | [Bergson and Creative Evolution] | 127 |
| [Creative Evolution a drama in three acts] | 128 |
| [Features of Bergson's system: the vital impulse] | 129 |
| [His rejection of Finalism: is it compatible with Theism?] | 132 |
| II. | [Eucken and the Truth of Religion] | 137 |
| [His critique of Naturalism, of Pragmatism and of Absolutism] | 138 |
| [Universal Religion and Characteristic Religion] | 140 |
| [Eucken's relation to Christianity: "Can we still be Christians?"] | 142 |
| [Bergson and Eucken as prophets of a new era] | 146 |
| III. | [Ward and the Realm of Ends] | 146 |
| [His transition from Pluralism to Theism] | 147 |
| [His argument for Immortality] | 152 |
| [Pampsychism and Metempsychosis] | 153 |
| [Difficulties in the doctrine of Pampsychism] | 154 |
| IV. | [Royce and the Problem of Christianity] | 155 |
| [Christianity as a Religion of Loyalty] | 157 |
| ["What is vital in Christianity?"] | 158 |
| [The Christian ideas of Sin and of Atonement or Grace] | 159 |
| [The Church as a source of salvation: its origin] | 161 |
| [Philosophical interest in Christianity and its significance] | 164 |
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| CHAPTER V | |
| The Christian Faith and Other Religions | |
| [The Universal Mission of Christianity] | 165 |
| I. | [Christianity and Ancient Religions] | 165 |
| [The resemblances and their significance] | 166 |
| [Clemen's "religious-historical" principles] | 168 |
| [1. The Virgin Birth and its alleged parallels] | 169 |
| [2. The worship of Christ and the worship of the Emperor: origin of the "Kyrios" title] | 172 |
| [3. Paul and the Mystery Religions] | 177 |
| [Pauline doctrine of the Sacraments and of dying and rising with Christ] | 180 |
| [The Pauline vocabulary: views of Reitzenstein] | 185 |
| [Why did Christianity conquer the Roman Empire?] | 192 |
| II. | [Christianity and Modern Religions] | 193 |
| [The missionary propaganda] | 194 |
| [Dangers of compromise] | 195 |
| [The Christian Plerosis: the fulfillment of the great religious ideas of the race] | 197 |
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| CHAPTER VI |
| [The Christian Faith and Biblical Criticism] | |
| [The value and significance of Biblical Criticism] | 200 |
| [Relation between the Old Testament and the New Testament] | 201 |
| I. | [The Pauline Epistles] | 203 |
| [The Tübingen view and later criticism] | 204 |
| [The Epistle to the Ephesians] | 204 |
| II. | [The Acts of the Apostles] | 205 |
| [Evidences of trustworthiness] | 206 |
| [Harnack on the Lukan authorship] | 208 |
| [Harnack and Koch on the date] | 210 |
| [Did Luke use Josephus?] | 213 |
| III. | [The Synoptic Problem] | 216 |
| [The Two-Document theory] | 217 |
| Modifications of the theory by the assumption: | |
| [(1) of a larger dependence on oral tradition] | 219 |
| [(2) of the use of Q by Mark] | 220 |
| [(3) of different editions of Mark] | 220 |
| ["Secondary elements" in Mark] | 221 |
| [Bearing of Harnack's early dating of the Lukan writings] | 225 |
| [The inter-Synoptic differences] | 226 |
| IV. | [The Johannine Problem] | 227 |
| [Evidence for Apostolic authorship] | 228 |
| Rejection of Apostolic authorship on the assumption: | |
| [(1) that John never lived at Ephesus] | 230 |
| [(2) that there were two Johns at Ephesus] | 232 |
| [The partition theory] | 234 |
| [The internal evidence: style and contents of the Fourth Gospel] | 234 |
| [Relation to the Synoptic Gospels as supplementary, explanatory and independent] | 236 |
| [Concluding remarks] | 242 |
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| [Bibliography of Recent Important Works] | 244 |
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| [Index] | 249 |