The Collected Works of Theodore Parker/Volume 03

by Theodore Parker

CONTENTS.

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The Relation of Jesus to his Age and the Ages		1
On Immortal Life		15
The True Idea of a Christian Church		36
Some Thoughts on the most Christian Use of the Sunday		61
Of Old Age		92
Of the Function of a Teacher of Religion in these Times		110
Of the Delights of Piety		151
Of the Relation between the Ecclesiastical Institutions and the Religious Consciousness of the American People		167
A False and True Revival of Religion		211
The Revival of Religion which we need		231
False and True Theology		257
Excesses of the Revival—Theodore Parker's Case		274
Beauty in the World of Matter, considered as a Revelation of God		280
What Religion may do for a Man		301
Farewell Letter to the Members of the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society in Boston		318

THE

COLLECTED WORKS

OF

THEODORE PARKER

MINISTER OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY AT BOSTON, U.S.

CONTAINING HIS

THEOLOGICAL, POLEMICAL, AND CRITICAL WRITINGS, SERMONS, SPEECHES, AND ADDRESSES, AND LITERARY MISCELLANIES.

EDITED BY

FRANCES POWER COBBE.

VOL. III.

SERMONS OF THEISM, ATHEISM, AND THE POPULAR THEOLOGY.

Second Edition.

LONDON:

N. TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1867.

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JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS.

DISCOURSES

OF

THEOLOGY.

BY

THEODORE PARKER.

LONDON:
TRÜBNER & CO., 57 & 59, LUDGATE HILL.
1875.