II. God as a Being of the Understanding 33 III. God as a Moral Being or Law 44 IV. The Mystery of the Incarnation; or, God as Love, as a Being of the Heart 50 V. The Mystery of the Suffering God 59 VI. The Mystery of the Trinity and the Mother of God 65 VII. The Mystery of the Logos and Divine Image 74 VIII. The Mystery of the Cosmogonical Principle in God 80 IX. The Mystery of Mysticism, or of Nature in God 87 X. The Mystery of Providence and Creation out of Nothing 101 XI. The Significance of the Creation in Judaism 112 XII. The Omnipotence of Feeling, or the Mystery of Prayer 120 XIII. The Mystery of Faith--The Mystery of Miracle 126 XIV. The Mystery of the Resurrection and of the Miraculous Conception 135 XV. The Mystery of the Christian Christ, or the Personal God 140 XVI. The Distinction between Christianity and Heathenism 150 XVII. The Significance of Voluntary Celibacy and Monachism 160 XVIII. The Christian Heaven, or Personal Immortality 170 Part II. THE FALSE OR THEOLOGICAL ESSENCE OF RELIGION. XIX. The Essential Standpoint of Religion 185 XX. The Contradiction in the Existence of God 197 XXI. The Contradiction in the Revelation of God 204 XXII. The Contradiction in the Nature of God in General 213 XXIII. The Contradiction in the Speculative Doctrine of God 226 XXIV. The Contradiction in the Trinity 232 XXV. The Contradiction in the Sacraments 236 XXVI. The Contradiction of Faith and Love 247 XXVII. Concluding Application 270 APPENDIX. SECTION