The Next Step in Religion: An Essay toward the Coming RenaissanceSellars, Roy Wood
Religion
The Next Step in Religion: An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance
Sellars, Roy Wood
Christianity; Humanism -- History -- 20th century; Religion
Bibliolatry, 204
Brain, discussion of, 136
Buddhism, 138
Calvinism, 164
Cathars, 162
Christianity, origins of, 58 f.; historical approach to, 60 f.; setting
of, 68 f.; democratic movements in, 73; in transition, 95 f.; naivete
of doctrines, 101 f.
Christian mythology, 28
Church, organization of, 92, 187
Copernican theory, 100 f.
Creation, stories of, 30 f.
Criticism, higher, 128, 131 f.
Demons, Jesus's belief in, 127
Devil, a personal, 155
Dionysus, 18
Dogmatism, tendency to, 65
Dreams, influence of, 143
Ethics, and early religion, 170 f.; in the Middle Ages, 173 f.;
heteronomous, 175 f.; modern, 177 f.; 184 f.
Evil, for primitive man, 153; and Satan, 156; created by God, 158; as
illusion, 164 f.; disappearance of problem of, 165
Evolution, and myth, 41 f.; biological, 104 f.
Faith cures, 132
Gnosticism, 87 f.
God, for Christianity, 115 f.; ideas of, 159 f.
Great War, 2, 11
Hades, 140
Hell, 177
Humanism, 192
Humanitarianism, 5
Immortality, arguments for, 146 f.; and early peoples, 139 f.; and
Christianity, 142; philosophical aspect of, 148 f.
Incarnation, 90
Infallibility, 204
Insanity, 146 f.
James, Wm., 145
Jesus, 75, 79 f.; death of, 82; as Messiah, 85; become God, 91; and the
Hebrew prophets, 158 f.
Job, 154.
Kant, Immanuel, 147 f.
Kempis, Thomas a, 180
Koran, 62
Lang, Andrew, 17
Laws, universal, 118
Lyell, scientific canon of, 132
Magic, 44 f.
Magicians, 50
Manicheism, 162
McGiffert, quoted, 7
Mill, John Stuart, 163
Miracles, 123 f.; of Jesus, 127 f; evidence for, 130 f.; and their
logic, 133
Mithraism, 23, 69.
Monastic orders, 194
Monotheism, ethical, 91, 115; Christian, 111 f.; of Isaiah, 158 f.
Morality, 173
Mythology, 14 f.
Myths, and morality, 24 f.; surrendering of, 108
Name, influence of, 51 f.
Naturalism, 2
Newman, Cardinal, 187
Original sin, 157
Osiris, 23
Paul, 70, 73
Pauline Christianity, 86 f.
Philo, 90
Prometheus, 17
Prophets, Hebrew, 171 f.
Protestantism, beginnings of, 93; aspects of, 199 f.; sects of, 205
Providence, 144 f.
Reformation, 205
Reinach, 17
Religion, new perspective in, 6, 10; of the Hebrews, 27; and magic, 53
f.; in early times, 170; social side of, 190
Ritual, 19 f.; and Christianity, 23
Robinson, quoted, 200
Roman Empire, 189, 192
Sacraments, 192
Salvation, 8 f.; and immortality, 141 f., 201
Satan, 155
Savior, 157
Science, 62 f.
Secular life, growth of, 195 f.
Sheol, 18, 140 f.
Skepticism, 110
Social democracy, 5
Spiritual, the, 11, 196
Spiritual courage, 2
Spiritualism, 11
St. Augustine, 159, 162
St. Francis, 73.
Strauss, 64
Synoptic gospels, 77 f.
Theology, and ethics, 164
Totemism, 15 f.
Tradition, harm of, 10
Tyndall, 135
Unitarian movement, 206
Universe, new view of, 3 f.
Wells, H. G., 162, 184 f.
Yahweh, 26 f.
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