Principle on which true theodicea rests. God the last foundation
of moral truth, of the good, and of the moral person.—Liberty of
God.—The divine justice and charity.—God the sanction of the
moral law. Immortality of the soul; argument from merit and
demerit; argument from the simplicity of the soul; argument from
final causes.—Religious sentiment.—Adoration.—Worship.—Moral
beauty of Christianity.
Review of the doctrine contained in these lectures, and the three
orders of facts on which this doctrine rests, with the relation
of each one of them to the modern school that has recognized and
developed it, but almost always exaggerated it.—Experience and
empiricism.—Reason and idealism.—Sentiment and
mysticism.—Theodicea. Defects of different known systems.—The
process that conducts to true theodicea, and the character of
certainty and reality that this process gives to it.