INDEX TO NOTES.


LECTURE I.

The Idea of the "Weltanschauung"
Classification of "Weltanschauungen"
Unconscious Metaphysic
Antagonism of Christian and "Modern" Views of the World--Anti-supernaturalism of the latter
Internal Conflicts of the "Modern" View
Uniqueness of the Old Testament View
Origin of the Old Testament View--Relation to critical theories
Nature and Definition of Religion
Undogmatic Religion
Æsthetic Theories of Religion
Religious and Theoretic Knowledge

LECTURE II.

The Central Place of Christ in His Religion
The Defeat of Arianism
Modern Unitarianism
Concessions of Ritschlians on the Person of Christ&
The Weakness of Deism
Weakness of Modern Liberal Protestantism
Christianity and the Idea of Progress
The Prevalence of Pessimism
Transition from Pessimism to Theism--Hartmann and Karl Peters
Materialism in Germany
The Reasonableness of Revelation
The Ritschlian Doctrine of Revelation

LECTURE III

Primitive Fetishism and Ghost-worship
Old Testament Monotheism
Kant on the Cosmological Argument
Kant on the Teleological Argument
Schools of Evolutionists
Kant on the Ontological Argument
Rational Realism

LECTURE IV.

The Creation History.
Evolution in Inorganic Nature--The Nebular Hypothesis
The Hypothesis of Cycles
"Eternal Creation"
Eternity and Time
Man the Head of Creation
Mind and Mechanical Causation.
Mind and Cerebral Activity
Schleiermacher and Immortality

LECTURE V.

Defects in Creation: an Argument against Theism
Dualistic Theories of the Origin of Evil
Hegel's Doctrine of Sin
Ritschl's Doctrine of Guilt
Alleged Primitive Savagery of Mankind
Early Monotheistic Ideas
The Antiquity of Man and Geological Time
The Connection of Sin and Death

LECTURE VI.

The Doctrine of Pre-existence.
Philo and the Fourth Gospel
The Resurrection of Christ and the Reality of His Divine Claim

LECTURE VII.

Recent Theories of the Trinity
Dr. Martineau as a Trinitarian

LECTURE VIII.

The Germ Theory of Justification

LECTURE IX.

Renan's Eschatology
The Gospel and the Vastness of Creation
Alleged Pauline Universalism


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