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

by Bernard Shaw

PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION:

ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY

By Bernard Shaw

1912

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CONTENTS

[ PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY ]

[ 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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