[2] For example, in considering the sacraments, I limit myself to two; for in the strictest sense (see Luther, T. xvii. p. 558), there are no more. [↑]

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER PAGE

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

Part I.

[THE TRUE OR ANTHROPOLOGICAL ESSENCE OF RELIGION].

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 Beingof 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 ofNothing]101
XI.[The Significance of the Creation in Judaism]112
XII.[The Omnipotence of Feeling, or the Mystery ofPrayer]120
XIII.[The Mystery of Faith—The Mystery of Miracle]126
XIV.[The Mystery of the Resurrection and of the MiraculousConception]135
XV.[The Mystery of the Christian Christ, or the PersonalGod]140
XVI.[The Distinction between Christianity and Heathenism]150
XVII.[The Significance of Voluntary Celibacy andMonachism]160
XVIII.[The Christian Heaven, or Personal Immortality]170

Part II.