TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTORY: FAITH AND MODERN THOUGHT

i. Statement of the problem; conditions of the conflict

ii. Review of the cycle of modern thought; the eighteenth and nineteenth

centuries; tendencies philosophic and social; Positivism; scientific

speculation; Darwin's Theory; Mr. Herbert Spencer's philosophy of

nescience.

iii. Characteristics of modern thought; Panphysicism; its positive and con-

structive, religious and reverent, and ethical spirit

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v. Right attitude of Faith; thought-constructive, reverent, ethical-required ;

the right kind of teachers

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I. THEISM AND SCIENCE.

PART FIRST.

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i. Question of the possibility of reconciling theistic and scientific notions;
mutual relations of theology and science; distinction of the scientific and
metaphysical questions.

ii. Theism and theories of creation and design.

iii. New scientific doctrine of creation

(1) As to method; Evolution theory; distinction between mode and

cause

(2) As to cause ; Materialism; definitions of matter; Agnosticism

iv. Need of constructive theistic argument adapted to the new conception of

Nature.

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(1) Idealism of Nature and Man

(2) Interpretation of the process through the result; of Nature through

man

II. MAN AND RELIGION

i. Paul on Mars' Hill; his doctrine of Religion

ii. Religion native to Man

(1) Theories of the origin of Religion; "superstitious Atheism"-argu-

ments against .

(2) Necessary to national welfare and progress

(3) The higher the more the Religion civilizes

iii. Comparison of Religions

(1) Fictitious Religions;-"the Religion of Nature; "-Strauss' "rever-

ence for the Universe"-the Apotheosis of Nature; the Religion

of Humanity-the Apotheosis of Man

(2) Real Religions :--(1) Living; Confucianism and Brahmanism;

(2) Universal: Buddhism, Islam; (3) Judaism

iv. The Religion of Christ

(1) Ideal, and.

(2) Actual

PART SECOND.

I. GOD AND ISRAEL

i. Moses; his training in Egypt and the wilderness; his call.

ii. The work of Moses; the making of Israel, his mission and personalities

iii. The new Name and the Religion; meaning of Iahveh

iv. The "Ten Words:" the proem, first table, second table

(1) New notion of God; relation of the Name and the "Ten Words "

(2) New notion of Religion

(3) Consequent mission of Israel

II. THE PROBLEM OF JOB

i. The Book of Job a Theodicy in poetry.

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(1) The outer, historical conditions of the rise of the problem; contra-

diction of faith and experience.

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(2) Its inner, logical necessity; the problem peculiar to Israel

(3) The problem in the prologue; doctrine of God and of Satan

2. The Drama

(1) The speeches of the friends

(2) The speeches of Job.

a. The man in his sorrow.

b. The man in the hands of his friends.

c. The man in the hands of God.

(3) The speeches of God.

(4) Bearing of the speeches on the problem

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iii. Significance of the solution.

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(1) Comparison with Greek and Buddhistic attempts at solution

(2) A new stage in Israel's development; the Servant of Jehovah ;'

(1) In a God; Scholastic substitutes for God discussed.

I. THE JESUS OF HISTORY AND the Christ of Faith

Meaning of Christ for criticism; comparison with Buddha; relation of the

Person of Jesus to His Religion

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i. The problem stated; the Jesus of History; the Christ of Faith; how the

one became the other; presuppositions of inquiry; Strauss; Tübingen

School: Renan

ii. The Jesus of History; the Person and His conditions

(1) The situation, educational, national, religious, into which Jesus

was born; its narrow particularism; His moral and ideal

universalism

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(2) The sphere of His ministry; the out-caste classes; His sinlessness

creates in others a consciousness of sin

(3) The brevity of His ministry; unequalled influence of His teaching;

comparison with Plato

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(4) The obscurity of His ministry; His creation of the ideal society of

man

(5) The position He claimed in the realization of His own ideals; the
argument therefrom

iii. The Christ of Faith; exists in the earliest literary presentation of the

person; the Pauline Epistles; the Apocalypse; the Epistle to the

Hebrews

Reasonableness of the Apostles' belief; Christ to them a philosophy of

God, of Nature, and of Man; argument from there having been only

one Christ

i. Christ's ideal; faced with the actual in Christianity; the ideal at once
individual and universal

ii. The Religion and the Person of Christ.

(1) The greatest person in history

(2) Relation to the realization of His ideal as regards God

(3) His idea of God an absolute gift to the race

iii. The relation of His person to the realization of His ideal of man
(1) His perfect humanity; in relation to law, man, God.
(2) Its influence on the thought and life of the race; source of the
humanest morality.

(3) Christ's realization of the human ideal; His second absolute gift to

the race; le grand Être of Positivism

(1) A society spiritually constituted; working from the unit to the

mass; its consequent universalism; its adaptability to various

forms of polity

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(2) A society universal, existing only for and by the truth; individuals

made heroes through Christ

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(3) The moral power of the love of Christ; on the individual and on the

race

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(4) This power in history; creative of the personalities that have made

history; the inspiration of our service of man

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iv. Christ's method of realizing His ideal

III. THE RICHES OF CHRIST'S POVERTY.

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Sacrifice the central truth of Christianity; Paul in Greece, in Corinth; his
preaching, resistance, persistence; results

i. The grace of Christ; meaning of "grace." The grace given to Paul; his
place in history

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ii. The riches of Christ; the fulness of the universe and of the Godhead

iii. The poverty of Christ; in His poverty only the more enriched and enrich-

ing the world

iv. The purpose of Christ in His poverty; our riches. Meaning of "wealth."

Christ the Source of wealth; to the community; to the individual

spirit; wealth unsearchable. Testimony of experience

Right relation of holiness and happiness; Christ the illustration of His own

principle

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i. The first quest of the individual; in a world of conflict and sin.

ii. Of man in the family; fatherhood; heredity; providence.

iii. Of man in the State; influence of personal character on the community

II. LOVE Of Christ.

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i. Quality of love and quality of object. Love instinctive and natural; love

rational and spiritual. Love for Christ spiritual; like love for the

dead

ii. Love of the visible and invisible Saviour. The disciples before and after

the Ascension. Idealizing the invisible; help of the imagination;

purifying influence of love of the unseen

iii. Elements necessary to love; how affect relation to Christ. No portraiture

given of Christ's physical appearance; no artist's skill equal to the

representation of the spiritual ideal

(1) Eternally progressive and inexhaustible. Notions of sensuous heaven;
of ecclesiastical organization. Modern city; Roman civitas; Greek
Tóλes; Jewish kingdom; God's ideal

(2) Able to realize itself by its own means and agencies. Relation of this

to foregoing discussions.

(2) Object of hope; an immortality progressively obedient, social, and

active; a state

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