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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
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I. § 1. The Essential Nature of Man 1
I. § 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 32
III. God as a Moral Being, or Law 43
IV. The Mystery of the Incarnation; or, God as Love, as a Being of the Heart 49
V. The Mystery of the Suffering God 58
VI. The Mystery of the Trinity and the Mother of God 64
VII. The Mystery of the Logos and Divine Image 73
VIII. The Mystery of the Cosmogonical Principle in God 79
IX. The Mystery of Mysticism, or Nature in God 86
X The Mystery of Providence and Creation out ofNothing 100
XI. The Significance of the Creation in Judaism 111
XII. The Omnipotence of Feeling, or the Mystery of Prayer 119
XIII. The Mystery of Faith—the Mystery of Miracle 125
XIV The Mystery of the Resurrection and of theMiraculous Conception 134
XV The Mystery of the Christian Christ, or the PersonalGod 139
XVI. The Distinction between Christianity and Heathenism 149
XVII The Significance of Voluntary Celibacy andMonachism 159
XVIII. The Christian Heaven, or Personal Immortality 169