Ten Great Religions eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 690 pages of information about Ten Great Religions.

Ten Great Religions eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 690 pages of information about Ten Great Religions.

Chapter X.

The Jewish Religion.

Sec. 1.  Palestine, and the Semitic Races
Sec. 2.  Abraham; or, Judaism as the Family Worship of a Supreme Being
Sec. 3.  Moses; or, Judaism as the national Worship of a just and holy King
Sec. 4.  David; or, Judaism as the personal Worship of a Father and Friend
Sec. 5.  Solomon; or, the Religious Relapse
Sec. 6.  The Prophets; or, Judaism as a Hope of a spiritual and universal
Kingdom of God
Sec. 7.  Judaism as a Preparation for Christianity

Chapter XI.

Mohammed and Islam.

Sec. 1.  Recent Works on the Life of Mohammed
Sec. 2.  The Arabs and Arabia
Sec. 3.  Early Life of Mohammed, to the Hegira
Sec. 4.  Change in the Character of Mohammed after the Hegira
Sec. 5.  Religious Doctrines and Practices among the Mohammedans
Sec. 6.  The Criticism of Mr. Palgrave on Mohammedan Theology
Sec. 7.  Mohammedanism a Relapse; the worst Form of Monotheism, and a
retarding Element in Civilization
Note

Chapter XII.

The Ten Religions and Christianity.

Sec. 1.  General Results of this Survey
Sec. 2.  Christianity a Pleroma, or Fulness of Life
Sec. 3.  Christianity, as a Pleroma, compared with Brahmanism,
Confucianism, and Buddhism
Sec. 4.  Christianity compared with the Avesta and the Eddas.  The Duad in
all Religions
Sec. 5.  Christianity and the Religions of Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Sec. 6.  Christianity in Relation to Judaism and Mohammedanism.  The
Monad in all Religions
Sec. 7.  The Fulness of Christianity is derived from the Life of Jesus
Sec. 8.  Christianity as a Religion of Progress and of universal Unity

Ten Great Religions.

Chapter I.

Introduction.—­Ethnic and Catholic Religions.

Sec. 1.  Object of the present Work. 
Sec. 2.  Comparative Theology; its Nature, Value, and present Position. 
Sec. 3.  Ethnic Religions.  Injustice often done to them by Christian
Apologists. 
Sec. 4.  How Ethnic Religions were regarded by Christ and his Apostles. 
Sec. 5.  Comparative Theology will furnish a new Class of Evidences in
Support of Christianity. 
Sec. 6.  It will show that, while most of the Religions of the World are
Ethnic, or the Religions of Races, Christianity is Catholic, or
adapted to become the Religion of all Races. 
Sec. 7.  It will show that Ethnic Religions are Partial, Christianity
Universal. 
Sec. 8.  It will show that Ethnic Religions are arrested, but that
Christianity is steadily progressive.

Sec. 1.  Object of the present Work.

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