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CONTENTS
Part II.

THE FALSE OR THEOLOGICAL ESSENCE OF RELIGION.

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XIX. The Essential Stand-point of Religion 184
XX. The Contradiction in the Existence of God 196
XXI. The Contradiction in the Revelation of God 203
XXII. The Contradiction in the Nature of God in general 211
XXIII. The Contradiction in the Speculative Doctrine of God 224
XXIV. The Contradiction in the Trinity 230
XXV. The Contradiction in the Sacraments 234
XXVI. The Contradiction of Faith and Love 245
XXVII. Concluding Application 267



APPENDIX.
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1. The Religious Emotions purely Human 275
2. God is Feeling released from Limits 277
3. God is the highest Feeling of Self 278
4. Distinction between the Pantheistic and Personal God 279
5. Nature without interest for Christians 282
6. In God Man is his own Object 284
7. Christianity the Religion of Suffering 287
8. Mystery of the Trinity 288
9. Creation out of nothing 293
10. Egoism of the Israelitish Religion 294
11. The Idea of Providence 295
12. Contradiction of Faith and Reason 300
13. The Resurrection of Christ 304
14. The Christian a Supermundane Being 304
15. The Celibate and Monachism 305
16. The Christian Heaven 313
17. What Faith denies on Earth it affirms in Heaven 315
18. Contradictions in the Sacraments 316
19. Contradiction of Faith and Love 319
20. Results of the Principle of Faith 325
21. Contradiction of the God-Man 332
22. Anthropology the Mystery of Theology 337