CHAPTER I PAGE LOSING GOD, OR THE HONEST ATHEIST 1 This chapter is a case study showing how false experiences of religion and erroneous conceptions of God may result in agnosticism or atheism. CHAPTER II HOW SCIENCE SAVES RELIGION, OR MODERN KNOWLEDGE AND RELIGION 39 Introduction 39 1. What is God? 43 2. Who is God? 48 3. Where is God? 53 4. What does God do? 62 5. If the Ancients made their gods, how do we know that we are not making our God? 71 6. May we not be communing with a mere idea? 73 CHAPTER III DOES MAN HAVE A SOUL, AND WHAT IS HIS PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE? 75 1. What is man? 75 2. Who is man? 77 3. Would the absence of man cripple God? 84 4. What could an infinite God care for such a little speck? 87 5. Is not socialism the best religion there is? 90 CHAPTER IV DOES GOD HAVE A BODY, AND COULD HE BECOME A MAN? 104 1. Introductory statement 104 2. The idea of the Trinity and how it came about 106 3. Was Jesus God or a good man only? 113 4. Can modern psychology any longer believe in the Deity of Jesus? 116 5. Where does Jesus belong in the religious, social and thought worlds? 132 6. Can God die? 135 CHAPTER V LOSING THE SENSE OF IMMORTALITY 142 A general statement 142 1. The contagion of doubt 144 2. The inability to make a religious use of modern knowledge 146 3. The loss of a satisfying conception of the future life 147 4. The growing habit of classifying the future with things unknown and unknowable 148 5. An inadequate conception of the kingdom of God 150 6. We automatically lose the assurance of the future when we lose the reality of the present 153 CHAPTER VI FINDING THE SENSE OF IMMORTALITY 157