Principal of Airedale College, Bradford; Author of "Studies in the Life of
Christ," "Studies in the Philosophy of Religion and History," etc.

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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.

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

the right kind of teachers

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PART FIRST.

I. THEISM AND SCIENCE.

i. Question of the possibility of reconciling theistic and scientific notions;

mutual relations of theology and science; distinction of the scientific and

metaphysical questions

(2) Philosophical relation

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.

(1) Idealism of Nature and Man

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

man

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

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(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

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(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.

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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

v. Issues involved

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(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

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

ii. The Book itself; its poetry; its persons

1. The prologue.

(1) Portrait of the Hero.

(2) Of the Enemy

(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

iii. Significance of the solution.

(1) Comparison with Greek and Buddhistic attempts at solution

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

Christ

I. THE JESUS Of History and the Christ oF FAITH

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213-252

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

Person of Jesus to His Religion

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

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

was born; its narrow particularism; His moral and ideal

universalism

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

creates in others a consciousness of sin

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(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

(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

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

the race; le grand Être of Positivism

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.

iv. Christ's method of realizing His ideal

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

mass; its consequent universalism; its adaptability to various

forms of polity

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

made heroes through Christ

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

race

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

history; the inspiration of our service of man